Elemental Alchemy - a podcast for performing artists

About Elemental Alchemy - a podcast for performing artists

This isn't another show about productivity hacks, going viral, or pushing harder. This is a reclamation. Your voice. Your power. Your creative birthright. Hosted by Sarah Rockwood—multi-disciplinary artist and creative guide—We Make Art is for the high-capacity woman who is tired of standing behind the curtain of her own life. Each episode is an invitation to return: to your truth, your artistry, and the bold body of work only you can make. Through soul-deep solo episodes, identity-shifting reflections, and honest conversations about creativity, healing, visibility, and self-trust, Sarah explores what it means to come home to yourself as an artist. This isn't content for consumption. This is activation. And if you're ready to reconnect with the artist in you, download Sarah's free workbook, 5 Signs You Are an Artist — Even If You Stopped Making Art: https://www.rockwoodalchemy.com/starthere

Publisher

Sarah Rockwood

Category

arts · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Sept 2023

Latest episode

20 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Jul 2026

   Your Art Is Waiting, Not Gone

   What happens when you have been away from your art for so long that you no longer feel entitled to call yourself an artist? What if too much time has passed? What if the version of you who made things, dreamed things, and felt ideas moving through her body belonged to another life? In this episode of We Make Art, Sarah Rockwood speaks to the artist who has stepped away from her creative practice because of illness, burnout, relationships, work, responsibility, heartbreak, or survival. Sarah explores why long seasons away from making do not erase your artistic identity, how the life you have lived can deepen the work you create now, and why returning to art is less about becoming productive and more about rebuilding trust. Your art was waiting, not gone. And you are allowed to come home. We Make Art is taking a short summer pause during August while Sarah rests, recalibrates, and allows the next season of conversations to take shape. New episodes will return in September. In the meantime, explore Elemental Alchemy's offerings for artists and creatives who are ready to reconnect with themselves and build a more art-filled life. Explore Elemental Alchemy here: www.rockwoodalchemy.com Not sure where to begin? Download Sarah's free guide, 5 Signs You Are an Artist — Even if You Stopped Making Art, and reconnect with the creative identity that may have gone quiet beneath the demands of life. Get the free guide here: www.rockwoodalchemy.com/starthere

2. 

   6 Jul 2026

   Boundaries Are Creative Infrastructure

   What if you are not creatively blocked? What if you are simply exhausted from giving your best energy, attention, compassion, and emotional regulation to everyone else? In this episode of We Make Art, Sarah Rockwood explores why boundaries are not only interpersonal tools—they are part of the infrastructure that allows your art to exist. Because when everyone has access to your energy, your creativity has to survive on whatever remains. Sarah discusses why choosing your art can feel dangerous when you were taught to be good, helpful, responsible, and easy. She explores the connection between boundary work and the nervous system, why guilt or discomfort does not necessarily mean a boundary is wrong, and the difference between genuine peace and appeasement. Your art is not asking too much of you. It is asking for a place in your life before every crisis has been solved, before everyone understands, and before everyone else has finished with you. Boundaries are not a rejection of love. They are a devotion to truth—and your art deserves a life where truth has room to breathe. If this episode speaks to you, explore Creative Wellness—a guided journaling experience for artists and creatives who are ready to reconnect with their body, mind, spirit, and art. Inside, you will move through reflections on sleep, movement, water, boundaries, and creativity, along with a guided visualization written and performed by Sarah to help bring you gently back to yourself. Explore Creative Wellness here: RockwoodAlchemy.com Not ready to begin Creative Wellness yet? Download Sarah's free guide, 5 Signs You Are an Artist — Even if You Stopped Making Art, and reconnect with the creative identity that may have gone quiet beneath the demands of life. Get the free guide here: 5 Signs You Are an Artist

3. 

   22 Jun 2026

   Movement Is How the Body Remembers

   Sometimes a creative block does not need more thinking. Sometimes the body needs to move. For many artists, movement has become tangled with punishment, discipline, appearance, and the pressure to make our bodies more acceptable. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that before movement was a workout or a skill to perfect, it was a natural form of communication. The body moves because it is alive. In this episode, Sarah opens a conversation about movement as expression, emotional release, and an essential part of the creative process. Because the body is not merely the vehicle that carries you to your art. The body is part of the work. This is a conversation about creative wellness, body-led truth, and learning to meet yourself without judgement. It is especially for artists living with autoimmune symptoms, chronic fatigue, burnout, perimenopause, or fluctuating capacity. When we stop demanding that the body perform the same way every day, we begin to build trust. The body learns that we will not abandon it. And when movement returns, expression often follows. So ask yourself one gentle question: How does my body want to move today? In this episode: • Why movement is a natural language of the body • How movement supports creativity and emotional expression • Why some creative blocks cannot be solved through thinking alone • The relationship between the body, spirit, and artistic process • How gentle movement can help held emotions begin to circulate • Why fluctuating capacity is not a personal failure • How meeting your body where it is builds trust • What movement can look like during fatigue, burnout, or chronic symptoms • How to invite the body into your creative conversations If this episode resonates, Sarah invites you to explore Creative Wellness—a guided journaling experience for artists and creatives who are ready to reconnect with their body, mind, spirit, and art. Inside, you will move through reflections on sleep, movement, water, boundaries, and creativity, along with a guided visualization written and performed by Sarah to help bring you gently back to yourself. Explore Creative Wellness here: rockwoodalchemy.com/creativewellness Not ready to begin Creative Wellness yet? Download Sarah's free guide, 5 Signs You Are an Artist — Even if You Stopped Making Art, and reconnect with the creative identity that may have gone quiet beneath the demands of life. Get the free guide here: rockwoodalchemy.com/starthere

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