Letting Go: Endings Make Space for Transformation | Sam Horton

In this episode, we explore how endings—though painful—are crucial for personal growth and transformation.

Sam Horton, artist, creative mentor, and life coach, shares her personal journey of moving through burnout, divorce, and toxic situations to embrace a more empowered, authentic life.

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Sam guides listeners through recognizing what no longer serves them, letting go, and creating space for new beginnings.

Through the practice of a Release Collage, Sam introduces a simple yet powerful creative exercise to help you release old patterns and invite in new, positive energy.

Learn how to transform your pain into a source of power, making room for growth, joy, and expansion.

Takeaways:

💗 Embracing Endings: Endings are not failures; they create the necessary space for new opportunities.

💗 Release Collage Activity: A simple art exercise to help symbolically let go of what's holding you back.

💗 New Beginnings: After releasing the old, you can invite renewal by filling your life—and artwork—with uplifting, expansive energy.

💗 Reflection: Transformation is a process. Take time to reflect on the shifts you're experiencing, and let your creative expression guide you toward your next chapter.

💗 Sam's Personal Journey: Sam Horton shares her own experiences of navigating endings, from leaving her career as a CFO to overcoming divorce and personal burnout. Through these challenges, she discovered the power of spiritual and creative tools to help her reconnect with her authentic self and embrace new beginnings.

🌟 Creative Tool Highlight - Release Collage:

Materials: Paper, paint, magazines, glue, markers, natural elements (like flowers or leaves).

Steps:

1. Identify What to Let Go: Paint or draw symbols representing what’s weighing you down. Tear and Transform: Write down what’s holding you back on pieces of paper, then tear them up and arrange them on your page to symbolize release.
2. Renewal Energy: Add bright colors and symbols that represent hope, renewal, and the energy you want to bring into your life.
3. Reflection Questions: What do I need to let go of to move forward? What is holding me back? How can I invite new energy into my life after releasing the old?

Take care,
Sam x

^{Sam Horton
Sam is an Artist, Creative Mentor, Life Coach and Spiritual Guide. A series of life challenges, from divorce and burnout to feelings of inner disconnection and emptiness, were the catalysts for a spiritual creative journey that led her out of the dark and transformed the way she cares for herself and shows up in the world.}

<sup>This journey is what inspires Sam to support other women to turn their pain into power and evolve into the most beautiful, authentic, best versions of themselves using transformative spiritual and creative tools to remember who they really are at their core.

Sam lives on the Sunshine Coast in Australia with her tween daughter. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, nature and sentimental treasures.</sup>

 

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