183: Celebrating life with Tori Ames
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episode summary
In this episode we chat about:
Changing our definitions of success
The power of habits
Holding on to tangible and intangible wins
Tori’s process of rebuilding her life
about tori ames:
Tori is an artist and colour loving creative living in Norwich in the UK. She describes her life as an adventure so far, and hopes it will always continue to be that way, whether it's in her life or in her art.
She describes her art as eclectic in style, but inspired by her love of colour, light and texture, which brings her joy and hopefully does to others. Collage is her favourite medium, as it seems to celebrate the trinity of qualities: colour, light and texture. She loves her magpie collection of papers!
Tory is passionate about more things and experiences than she could list, but boiled down, they would probably all have a thread of connection, laughter, exploration, sunshine and creativity running through them. Tori has a never-ending fierce variety kaleidoscopes of changing sights, sounds, experiences and wonderful people in her life, which makes her very busy life, but one that fuels rather than zaps energy from her.
Tori shares her journey so far, she shares her experience of rebuilding her life. Tori really takes us behind the scenes and shares her experiences of struggling with depression and an eating disorder. We really dive into what recovery means, examining definitions of success. And Tori really takes us on the journey of how she has rebuilt so many areas of her life, the courage that it took, the decision she's made, and my goodness, Tori is just a phenomenal woman.
We also dive into the power of habits, how to hold on to tangible and intangible wins. Tori shares the practices that she's found most helpful that she does to this day. We have such an honest conversation and Tory is the epitome of a courage maker in how she approaches her life and the vulnerability and honesty in which she shares her journey.
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📷 credit: Rachel Burt
I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-passionate women to do the things only they can do and build a wholehearted life.
When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Letters of Rebellion to my wonderful Rebel Rousers community or hosting workshops/group programmes, I'm usually covered in paint or walking my wonderfully weird cockapoo Merlin.
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