Episode 91: Waking, Dreaming, and Returning to Being Seen with Dulce Ruby Founder of Despierta
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Episode 91: Waking, Dreaming & Return to Being Seen with Dulce Ruby, Founder of Despierta
“Creativity is an individual process that is also being collectively shared.”— Dulce Ruby
Welcome to this week’s episode! We’re deep-diving into the creative mindset and returning to being seen after years of creating behind the scenes. I am joined by Dulce Ruby, an international artist and herbal alchemist who creates artworks and tools to awaken and activate people to their dream realities. She had over 1 million people as part of her community on Instagram until she was hacked and started her new account.
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Dulce first gives us her definition of creativity, which she believes is magic. “The eminence of what is desiring to be birthed through an individual at a given moment. It’s what fulfills, fills, and breathes life into you, and how can you breathe that into the world? Creativity is who you are, materialized into this plane of existence, the 3D material, physical.”
Dulce shares her current relationship with creativity, stating that she consistently pours magic into the world and that her creativity is intertwined with her day-to-day life. She also shares that her creativity has been stunted, halted, or hidden as she worked through creating projects behind the scenes including leading a World Peace Tour and creating Despierta, which was an intuitive download, an antidote for what aches the human mind, body, and soul.
Dulce talks about coming back to sharing her creations, “I feel like, as I was hiding myself and my creations, more than people who were used to, I guess seeing me and seeing my work and seeing my words and feeling and just nourishing their souls and trying to say that not in an egotistical way but being able to receive my love and my outpouring and my magic, my creativity, and being able to utilize that as a healing modality for themselves.”
Topics Covered:
Dulce’s expansive definition of creativity and how creativity is part of everyday life.
How Despierta was founded to create an accessible offering to her community.
Nourishment as a part of the creative process and how drinking tea can be a way to connect with yourself.
Dream, sleep, and awaken, a philosophy that guides Despierta’s and Dulce’s work.
Dulce’s energy is contagious! She talks about how she builds playfulness into her life.
Dulce shares her process visualization practice for overcoming creative blocks and allowing more creative flow into her life.
We can’t wait to hear your thoughts about this episode. Leave a comment below!
xo, Chef Carla
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About Dulce Ruby
Dulce Ruby is a first-generation Mexicana Americana on a mission to awaken the masses to their magic. Having organized the first USA PIPO (Peace In Peace Out) events in 2015, she then organized & guided a world peace tour leading meditations alongside a renowned Buddhist monk which she documented & published under her project Soul Traveler.
She has also hosted retreats & events around the globe for brands such as LUSH Cosmetics, Under Armour, and Collective Evolution. Published in numerous magazines & journals, she has been featured on the Huffington Post’s GPS For The Soul as “an artist to look out for” and ELLE Magazine named her “the most inspiring Instagram account to follow to reach your Zen.”
She is best known for her awakening meditations, poetic prose, and dreamy visuals that teleport you to other worlds! As a conscious-content creator and curator, her aim is to create works and tools that awaken the masses into remembrance of who they truly are through exploration and healing of both our inner & outer worlds.. hence, the birth of Despierta.
Find + Work with Dulce:
Websites: Despierta & Dulce Ruby
Instagram @dulceruby
Instagram @despierta.one
NOTE: I am an affiliate of Dulce’s program and Despietera. I support her work 100%. Ask me any questions via email or DM me on Instagram @chefcarlacontreras.
Full Transcript:
Carla Contreras (00:01):
Welcome to Nourishing Creativity. The cycle of the last few years has left you and me feeling mentally, physically, emotionally, and creatively drained, nourish your very full life through interviews with creatives and entrepreneurs about how they create and move through their creative blocks. If you don't know me, I'm Chef Carla Contreras, a food stylist and content strategist. You can find me, chef Carla Contreras, across all social media platforms and more information in today's show notes dual say, welcome to the podcast. I am so grateful to have you here. I have been relishing in your energy for the last hour pre podcast. Can you share with us who you are and how you serve your community?
Dulce Ruby (00:56):
Yes, of course. Thank you so much for having me. I've honestly, just on a real note, I'm just so grateful that I am here and that I've been able to be present with you as the hay is being delivered for my alpacas. My name is Dulce Ruby. I am an international artist and Herbal Alchemist. I am the founder of the Despierta, and the way I serve my community is in many forms. The way that is most resonant to share right now is I create works of art and tools that help awaken and activate people to their dream realities here and now, both in the dreamscape as well as in the waking room.
Carla Contreras (01:35):
You have so much magic to share. We're going to talk about food first because I'm a train chef. What was your last meal? Or maybe you want to share your last drink.
Dulce Ruby (01:46):
Okay, so the drink is the easiest one, so we'll go with that. Just to plug a little, I guess. But honestly, I wake up and I have morning mystic. It is my awakened blend. I had it this morning very early on. I wake up around 5, 5 30 every morning and it's just like a beautiful turmeric Rose had it as a nice warm latte. It's actually cool today, not has it been as hot today. So it's been nice to kind of enjoy and sit with the essence of warmth as we start to slowly move into the fall.
Carla Contreras (02:18):
I love Morning Mystic. I mix a half a teaspoon with my matcha and I make a latte in the morning. It's delicious,
Dulce Ruby (02:28):
Honestly. I love it. Thank you so much. It's funny because I've been having it as in ice latte the past three weeks, and I'm so excited that today was the first day to have it warm. It feels like that shift is occurring. It's nice.
Carla Contreras (02:41):
Can we talk about creativity because a lot of your work weaves creativity in and out of it, and I'm also going to ask you about your definition. How do you define creativity
Dulce Ruby (02:53):
In regards to a definition? I would have to say that creativity is the eminence of what is desiring to be birthed through you at that moment. And I want to be sure that I'm very clear here because it's something that's very important to me, whereas just what is that fulfills, fills and breathes life into you and how can you breathe that into the world? I feel like creativity is that magic, right? I feel like creativity is who you are, materialized into this plane of existence, the 3D material, physical. So yeah, I just feel like that's what it is. That's the only other way I could define it.
Carla Contreras (03:35):
What's your current relationship with creativity based on that definition?
Dulce Ruby (03:40):
So this is an interesting one. I feel like I am someone who consistently is pouring magic into the world in some way. So I feel like my relationship with creativity is how I breathe. It is the interweaving of my day-to-day, and I'm going to bring this up because I think it's very important, social and publicly. I feel like my creativity has been stunted or halted or hidden as I work through the creativity in the inner aspect of it where it's just like you're behind the scenes and you're always working in creating and just living. I feel like life itself is that creativity, that magic, but I feel like, yeah, I think my relationship with it is expanding and it's growing and it's yearning to be seen again. Really.
Carla Contreras (04:24):
We talked about this pre podcast about the concept of returning to being seen. Yes. And what does that mean for you right now? What does it mean to be visible in the world and sharing your creations?
Dulce Ruby (04:37):
Yeah, so I'm really happy we spoke about this because it is literally where I am right now, currently in my path and on my journey and huge part of my story literally today. And I think what that means to me most is being able to return to sharing who I am, what I'm doing and what I'm here to do, but also in harmony with returning to being able to help people because I feel like as I was hiding myself and my creations, the more that the people who were used to, I guess seeing me and seeing my work and seeing my words and feeling and just nourishing their souls and trying to say that not in an egotistical way, but being able to receive my love and my outpouring and my magic, my creativity, and being able to utilize that as a healing modality for themselves.
(05:26)
And I feel like my path has been very specific for the past decade or two where the meditations, the poetry, the alpaca content, I feel like that's very beautiful to people and it helps soothe and a time of chaos. So I think what that means to me now is as in what returning to being seen means to me now is returning to becoming the healer in a sense, because it's like I know that's who I am, that's what I've been doing even behind the scenes. But I feel like the public and the digital interwoven nature of that realm, it's ready. I feel like as much as I am where's just like, Hey, where are you? Where's your content? Where are your wise words? And again, I'm just paraphrasing because that's just what I get and I'm just like, yeah, you know what? I miss it too. I miss giving it as much as you miss receiving it. So I think that's where I'm at and what I think it means to me right now.
Carla Contreras (06:22):
And to give people context that are not connected to your work. About seven years ago you were sharing content consistently, and then there was a break in that sharing content purposefully. And I want to weave this into the conversation about nourishing our creativity and what's your creative process and what's that process been like for the last seven years and how does this weave into today to returning to being visible and being seen?
Dulce Ruby (06:54):
So I'll start with the today aspect. So funny enough, I have been planning to make a comeback to this social webs, and I had started putting things onto Plani Lee and preparing and strategizing and getting all of my beautiful content ready. And then this morning I wake up and a piece of content had gone out without my knowing, without a caption unprepared. And I think, one, I truly believe that the world, the universe, God, divine nature of how reality works, beautiful but mysterious ways, but I always take them as signals and signs. And so as much as I wasn't prepared for that, I do think that it's a push in the right direction. I was already flowing that it's more of like a reassurance, a reaffirmation. And the reason for that is I did take the last seven, eight years slowly. I wouldn't say off of social media, but I would post a picture or a story here and there, maybe something on my feed once or twice a year.
(07:48)
And the reason for that is I actually lived at a temple in 2013, 2000 to 2015 in Thailand at the Dema CAA Temple. And then I was an international world country coordinator for World Peace Initiative, the US Ambassador for Peace Revolution. And with that beautiful honor, I was able to strategize and really work with them to create a world peace tour. And I was traveling the world with a monk and leading meditations for world peace. And then I met my partner and I immigrated to another country. I now live in Canada. This is all seven years ago when we met at the end of my tour. And at that point, so much was shifting not solely within myself and in my personal individual reality, but also collectively, universally. There was just so much going on if you really consider how drastically the world has changed in the last five, seven years.
(08:41)
So I decided to one take a step away to really give myself the grace and the space and just really feel into and do some healing and some personal me time. Who am I now that I'm not soul traveling the world for world peace? Who am I now that I'm in another country? Who am I now? There were so many. How can I best serve the collective at this time now that so much has shifted both in my reality but also in the world. And as the years went by, the more that I was sharing, the more I saw the need to share things, and then my account got hacked. And so I had to start over and then the algorithm hit the changes that everybody has felt. And so at that time, I really saw myself retract and just go into myself. And at the time, this is now four or five years ago, I have a beautiful forest in my backyard and I was in there meditating.
(09:37)
And this incredible download came in as the answer to how do I best serve the collective at this time? And having done meditation for so many years and having that been the foundational part of who I am online, I created in the middle of my forest and these beautiful formulations and the divine trifecta of dreams sleep in a awaken. And how, these are the three things that I feel that humans currently need most in terms of mind, body, and soul. So I mean, I won't get into the details of each blend, but the reason why it is dream sleep and awaken is because the dreamscape is the physical detaching into the astral. So that soul work is very necessary. The sleep blend celestial calm is very important to me because sleep is the primary foundation of my being. I feel like without a proper sleep or even sleep routine, people can really shift and change in, I won't say negative ways, but in ways that are of lower vibration that cause anger, frustration, depression, brain fog, there's so many things.
(10:41)
And then that leads to the awakened blend where it's easier to detoxify from all aspects of your being because all three blends have the medicinal and metaphysical properties really beautifully balanced and interwoven into each other. So for the awakened blend, morning mystic is very detoxifying for the physical aspect of your body, defamation and all that, but also metaphysically for the calcifying, the pineal gland. Anyways, all that to say is my relationship with creativity really led me there where it just like I was exploring different ways that I can, what can I create who I am? And I think creativity is so intensely tied to who you are because creativity is a very individual practice that is also collectively being shared. So if you consider that we are all mirrors of each other, and if creativity is my own personal practice, yet I'm sharing it with the world, it's something that's just so beautifully.
(11:38)
And I want to say that word interwoven again, even though I've said it a million times today. But I really feel like that's what it is when we, I guess even return to being seen, we are returning to gifting ourselves but each other consistently, right? Because the more that I'm pouring into myself, the more I can pour outwardly into the world and the more that you are going to receive these gifts. But I'm also receiving the feedback and the love and the appreciation, and I think it's just such a beautiful mere reflection. And I say that because a lot of my work with what I was doing before the World Peace Tour was mere work, and it's my biggest metaphysical esoteric practice. So when I say mirror, I say it as a physical mirror, but also mirroring how we see the realms as above the so below the hermetic aspect of it and how we're able to manifest or materialize or even be in this reality. So I don't even know if that answers the question.
Carla Contreras (12:32):
It totally does. And I do know that you also work with the moon phases, and also there was something that you shared during the content retreat. And if people don't know, I hosted a content retreat back in July and it was
Dulce Ruby (12:46):
Amazing. I will say that I was there.
Carla Contreras (12:48):
Thank you, Dulce. And I want to bring the sentiments that you shared during the retreat about playfulness. Yes. And how does that play a role in your creative practice? Because from hearing your voice, and I have a personal relationship with you, and we text, but there's a playfulness there, and I hear it so many times when I connect with you. And I would love to know, is that part of your creation process?
Dulce Ruby (13:16):
I think that's a part of life for me. Just be like, you're not, and I think that's a part, the biggest part of my work when I really consider what does living lucidly mean or what does it mean to be lucid? I'm not talking just in your dreams when you're sleeping. I'm talking about on a day-to-day level. If you view life as the mystics do, I won't say did as mystics do, we're not seeing life as if it were a dream. We're seeing life as it is a dream, right? Because life is a dream. And I think that if you play as if the world around you, your environment, your life, your relationships, your career, your job, your artwork, whatever it is that you're doing, and if you view it as play, it's just a game. And when you remove all the taxing aspect of the chaos of our reality of the war, the fem and the financial institutions, the government, everything, political stuff, for me, when you remove all of the manmade aspects, because those are all things that did not exist when the earth was put into play as a conscious reality when we came to volunteer here, when you really view what we were here to do and what we're still here to do, and our purpose is just have fun, see what you're able to create here, experience things, experience each other.
(14:29)
See what is plausible, right? So for me, it's just like, yeah, in regards to the workshop, we were talking about confidence in front of the camera, and the reason why I brought up play or even how it was brought up was more so just have fun. Just have fun with it. Remove the insecurities, the fears, the doubts, the limits, the inner chatter. All of these things are, again, they're within you, but they are external thoughts. When you really consider the core of your being isn't mean to you. The core of your being is nurturing and it's nourishing, nourishing creativity. For me it's, it's a very specific energy that you hold within yourself. And everything else has been kind of programmed into you where it's just like, oh, I'm not pretty enough. Oh, I'm not doing this right. Oh, I can't. Any doubts are really something that is created, not birthed through you, not something that is really within you. And for me, that playfulness shows up and everything I do, even if you look at my packaging, it's just like it's bright, it's colorful, but it still has that esoteric, metaphysical, spiritual conscious nature because that is life, or at least through my lens, my perspective is it should be fun, it should be cheerful, but it should have the foundational magic that we are.
Carla Contreras (15:44):
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Dulce Ruby (16:27):
So I get creative blocks all the time, so won't be like, oh, that never happens to me. I think everybody gets that because we're human. I think that blocks can come in two ways, just like dreams can come in three ways, but blocks are one. I feel like, again, kind of that external chatter where the monkey mind goes running and now you're having these fears, those doubts, the limits. And even within perfectionism, which I will say that I have, I think that blocks can come in these two ways or so. The other way is more so maybe giving yourself the grace and the time to pause. And I'll actually stick to that one because that's the way that I see it most. Whereas when I feel like there's a creative block and it is not something that's external or something like turmoil within my spirit that's trying to cause me to, I don't want to post this because of this, I don't know what to do and I have an idea, but now it's gone.
(17:24)
Those things are very separate of myself. So I think that the most important one to look at, and we will touch on the other one after, is the ones that are telling you, Hey, there's no rush. You don't need to do this today. You don't need to post it tomorrow. What race are you trying to win? It's just you against you. It's literally just you for you. So if you feel like you can't do this, or you don't have the capacity or the energy or the imagination or the heart to do that today than it wasn't meant to be done today, and that's fine. Honestly, I've been doing this for, oh gosh, I feel like my entire life, I've been on social media since my space. I don't know if that gives away my age, but I'm at that point where I'm like, I've been doing this for a few decades or a couple decades plus.
(18:10)
So I've learned, and I've seen, and I've seen the evolution of the internet in the social realms. And I'm like, doesn't matter. It does not matter. Nobody is taking you that seriously. You are the only one taking yourself that seriously. Nobody's out there waiting in front of their phone for you to post this at exactly this time. I think that the most appreciated and well respected and received content is the one that comes through you when it's time to come through you. And even this conversation, I don't know if she wants me to tell you, but let's just do this tomorrow. And it's not like, oh, no, I'm not ready. I'm not prepared. It's like, Hey, if she feels that, I feel that. Let's just do it. And so far, I mean, I think this has been a beautiful conversation, and I also think that it's very important for people to see, know, and feel that it's okay to just do everything at your own pace.
(19:01)
And that brings me to the other part of blocks and how they can be perceived. I think the other part is really just if it is something that isn't, Hey, you need to take your time, and it's more of nerves, anxiety, pressure, external validation, all these deadlines we have jobs and stuff that might require that. I think those things can be taken. Obviously you can take a different approach and be like, okay, meditate on it. And I don't say, sit there for 15, 30 minutes and just close your eyes and then you'll be ready more. So sit, pause, drink some tea, and really think what is really disrupting my flow and how can I sit with that, let it flow through me and release it? Because for example, you get an idea, you're really excited about it, you're about to go to sleep, so you're like, you put it off until tomorrow.
(19:52)
Tomorrow comes, it's now today. Oh, I do not feel inspired to do this anymore. Reflect on sit there, reflect on what is it that I was doing, who was I around? What was I listening to? What space, what energetic frequency was I in when I had that inspiration? And when that comes to you, I kid you not, I can bet millions of dollars right now, that inspiration will come back. And most of the times it comes back even more strong because you are a powerful magical being. And when I say when it's time, you'll be ready. And I think that sitting with yourself and really just allowing that time to just refine yourself and come back home to yourself will bring that idea back home too, because it's just you. Right? Again, going back to what is creativity to you, it's you, my creativity, everything that I put out is me. A hundred percent. People will see something and they're like, they know that's me. Whether it's my voiceover meditations or my poetic stuff or visuals or whatever, it's just like it has a specific essence. That essence is me. And it's the same for everybody. It has nothing to do with brand identity. It has to do with soul identity. So
Carla Contreras (20:59):
Beautiful. And I love that you mentioned that there was like, let's record a podcast tomorrow and we've had the most incredible conversation. I'm so grateful that you came on. Can you share with us how we can find you, how we can support you, how we can work with you?
Dulce Ruby (21:18):
Yes, of course. Thank you so much. So on Instagram, I am under my name dce Ruby, that's D-U-L-C-E-R-U-B-Y, and also on Instagram via theta one, D-E-S-P-I-E-R-T-A dot ONE. And that's my metaphysical brand. I won't say a T brand because it's so much more than that. And then online it's the same, do ruby.com or Depi one. So it's pretty simple.
Carla Contreras (21:47):
And I have a code for listeners that's going in the show notes. It's Chef Carla 10, and that's going to be for your course, lucid Living and Despierta.
Dulce Ruby (21:56):
Yeah, I'm really excited.
Carla Contreras (21:59):
Me too. Thank you. Thank
Dulce Ruby (22:01):
You.
Carla Contreras (22:03):
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