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 you if you are seeking more sustainable, creative, and compassionate ways to live and work. It is for you if you work as a therapist or helping professional, or have a leadership, caring or teaching role, in life or at work.
In these posts, I explore creativity as a form of survival. And I examine how creative activities can be energising and inspiring, as well as offering us restoration, reflection, and meaning-making. I challenge the narratives that keep helping professionals trapped in cycles of depletion.
I discuss that engaging with the arts is about reconnecting with our inner resources and with practices that sustain us, even when the systems around us don't.
Why Creative Practices aren’t just an "Add-on" for Therapists
Creativity isn't a wellness luxury. For many communities, it's always been a means of survival. A reflection on what this means for the helping professions.
How to Enter a Flow State Through Creative Practice
You know that feeling when you're creating something and suddenly two hours have passed in what felt like minutes? That's flow, and it's one of the most powerful experiences available to you. Here's how to access it more often.
Fear of Success, Perfectionism, and How Creativity Helps
Fear of success is often fear of visibility in disguise. Discover how creative practice can help you build the capacity to be seen and claim your achievements.
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds