Creativity is for everyone.
It’s about engaging with the process. And it's about allowing yourself to play, explore and make beautiful, messy, imperfect work.
This blog is for those seeking more sustainable, creative, and compassionate ways to live and work, therapists and helping professionals, those in leadership, caring, or teaching roles, in life and at work.
Here I explore creativity as something that has always sustained communities through difficulty. I examine how creative practice can offer restoration, reflection, and meaning-making, and I challenge the narratives that keep helping professionals trapped in cycles of depletion.
This is about reconnecting with practices that sustain us, even when the systems around us don't.
Permission to Create
You Have Permission
Too often, we put our creative projects on hold, thinking we need to earn the right to pursue what lights us up. We tell ourselves we'll write that story after things at work calm down, learn to paint when the kids are older, or start that project when we have more time.
But permission isn't something that comes from outside. It's something you give yourself.
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds