Hectic and eclectic. I'm a first-year university student with an art history doctorate in my sights, a mum, an artist, a designer, a writer, and a woman who asks too many questions. IN BED WITH BEL is where philosophy, ancient wisdom, and real life collide — unfiltered and horizontal.
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Hectic and eclectic. I'm a first-year university student with an art history doctorate in my sights, a mum, an artist, a designer, a writer, and a woman who asks too many questions. IN BED WITH BEL is where philosophy, ancient wisdom, and real life collide — unfiltered and horizontal.
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May 13, 2026
The Creativity Industry Is Keeping You Stuck
<p>There is now an entire industry built around creativity. Books, courses, podcasts, workshops — all of it circling the romantic idea of the creative life without ever getting to the work itself.</p><p>In this episode Bel picks up Rick Rubin's The Creative Act — a book she genuinely loves — and asks the uncomfortable question: is this chapter one of a conversation nobody is finishing?</p><p>She talks about the consumption trap, the real cost of an artist's life, and why creativity isn't something you read your way into. It's a reflex. It's a way of being. You already know how to breathe.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Why The Creative Act is chapter one — and what chapter two looks like</li><li>The industry keeping creatives permanently inspired and permanently stuck</li><li>What it actually costs to go all in with your work</li><li>Making art is like getting ready for a party</li><li>The doorstop theory</li></ul><p>Bel has been making things professionally for over 35 years. This is what she knows.</p><p><strong>Find Bel:</strong> YouTube: @belbare Fauun Haus: fauun.haus</p><p><br></p>
May 7, 2026
Sappho to Sylvia Plath to PJ Harvey to YOU: Unlock Your Creative Genius
<p>Bel sits with the songbirds outside her window and traces a creative lineage that starts with Sappho in 600 BC and runs unbroken through to your living room right now.</p><p><strong>The thread this episode pulls:</strong></p><p><strong>Sappho</strong> — ancient Greek lyrical poet from Lesbos. Played the lyre, sang, performed. Devastatingly beautiful work about love, desire, and heartbreak that was so dangerous to the patriarchy it was almost entirely destroyed. What survives are fragments — scratched on pottery, found in tombs, quoted by other authors before her work disappeared. Less than five percent remains. It was enough to start a tradition that never ended.</p><p><strong>The reception of ideas</strong> — in art history and literature, reception means tracing where an idea began and how it travelled through time. Bel traces the Sapphic creative tradition — women using their deepest interior as their medium — through the centuries to the present.</p><p><strong>Sylvia Plath</strong> — Ariel, her most raw and celebrated collection, was edited after her death by her husband Ted Hughes who removed the most confronting material. Her archives show her own work marked through with red — you can't say that, you can't do this. Her deepest truth censored by the people closest to her.</p><p><strong>Patti Smith</strong> — took the written word back to the stage, bringing music back to poetry for the first time in centuries. Called too intense. Too much. Too much truth.</p><p><strong>PJ Harvey</strong> — dark, intense, unflinching. Making audiences step back. Doing it right.</p><p><strong>Lana Del Rey, Hope Sandoval, Emily Dickinson</strong> — all part of the same unbroken thread. All told, in some form, they were too much.</p><p><strong>The quote that anchors everything:</strong> "What would happen if one woman told the truth of her life? The world would split open."</p><p><strong>Rumi's line that closes it:</strong> Your wounds are where the light gets in — and out.</p><p><strong>The question this episode leaves you with:</strong> What would happen if you told the truth of your interior life? And what is stopping you?</p>
May 5, 2026
We're Still Doing This: Why Monsters Keep Getting the Microphone
<p>Tonight Bel reads about Augustus and Nero for her classics tutorial and cannot hold it together. This is what happens when a mature age student with zero background in ancient Roman history encounters the Twelve Caesars cold — with full adult comprehension of the consequences, the ramifications, and the ripples still moving through society two thousand years later.</p><p><strong>What's in this episode:</strong></p><p><strong>Augustus</strong> — the original personal brand. Built an empire on violence, rewrote his own story, and convinced history to call him great. The first influencer. Terrible human. Extraordinary PR.</p><p><strong>Nero</strong> — murdered his mother, possibly burned Rome, fancied himself an artist. History finds him fascinating. Bel finds him appalling. Both are correct.</p><p><strong>The pattern that won't break</strong> — from ancient Rome to right now, the monsters keep getting the microphone. The podcasts, the profiles, the marble statues. The cycle hasn't changed in two thousand years and Bel would like to discuss this.</p><p><strong>The women who almost disappeared</strong> — Sappho. Diotima. The unnamed women of ancient Rome who might have brought some sanity to the chaos and left almost no record at all. Where are their statues?</p><p><strong>The moment that cracked everything open</strong> — a speech at university about the worst thing you can do with an education being to not use it for what's right. Bel doesn't know yet how she's going to use hers. But she knows it starts here, in bed, furious, with a Chihuahua.</p><p><strong>The question this episode leaves you with:</strong> We've had two thousand years to change this. Why haven't we? And what's your small corner of the world where you can push back?</p>
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