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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of yourself, you’re welcome here.
This space holds reflections on emotional awareness and creativity as a way to understand yourself more gently (especially in the face of pressure, productivity, and identity expectations).
Take your time. You don’t need to read everything. Begin where something resonates.
Goal Setting for Creatives
Let's start off by discussing resistance to goal setting as creatives. I think it's no secret that so many of us resist the idea of planning and setting goals when it comes to our creative work, because it sounds...
Cultivating the Self in Self-Expression
So, let's start off by talking about how many of us creatives got started on this journey by wanting to imitate our creative heroes. If you're like me, you likely have been impacted by some type of art that really had a profound effect on you...
The Creative Process
The main reason that I want to talk about the creative process is because this is a term that we hear all the time, but I don't think we fully understand what it really means...
Creativity as a Relationship
If you're like me and you grew up in a Western capitalistic society, you have likely internalized the idea that creativity is only valid if you can make money with it, otherwise it’s seen as a waste of time...
What is creativity?
In this post I’m going to start by setting a strong foundation and defining what creativity is. This will help as a reference point for when we start diving deeper into other adjacent topics...
What does it mean to “express yourself”?
If you’re like me and you have spent any amount of time in creative spaces whether online or in-person, you likely heard people constantly going on and on about how you need to use your art as a tool for self-expression…
How I Fit In Time to Create Even as a Busy Creative Solopreneur
If you’re like me and most other women in today’s hectic world, you’re likely trying to balance out a bunch of things in your life, whether it’s raising kids, taking care of an older family member, going back to school, working a full time job while…
Creativity Coaching for non-creatives?
A few weeks ago a lovely woman reached out to me wondering if creativity coaching was for her. As we began chatting and getting to know each other, she explained that she wasn't sure if she had done the right thing by reaching out to me given that she wasn’t an “artist” or “creative”…
The Number One Thing You Need to Build a Thriving Creative Business
Do you dream of living the creative entrepreneurial lifestyle? You know, being able to work anywhere, doing creative work that you’re passionate about, making good money to support yourself and your family, having creative freedom, having lots of great clients…