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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.
Why play is at the heart of creativity
Today, we’re gonna be talking about play and how this is connected to creativity. The reason that I want to talk about this is because I have talked to so many women of color…
Establishing a Creative Practice
Today, we are going to be diving into the topic of developing a creative practice. I want to tell you why this is such a powerful foundation for anybody that wants to thrive as a creative person…
Navigating Creative Block
I want to start off by describing what creative block might be looking like for you right now. You might be able to recognize yourself in one or a few of the following examples...
Experimentation: The Key Ingredient in Crafting Your Unique Creative Sauce
Let’s kickoff this exploration by talking about why experimenting sounds good in theory but is much harder in practice. First of all, we don't know how. We don't know what it means to experiment in practical terms...
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...