The arc where you move from disconnection to alignment.
This is the chapter you turn to when you’re feeling a little lost, or like you’ve lost your spark. It’s where we reacquaint with our dreams, step into our authenticity, and find meaning in the path we’re taking.
What better way to reconnect with yourself than through creativity?
The creative process involves play, curiosity, exploration, and experimentation — the very process that leads to self-discovery. When we’re feeling lost, it’s often because we don’t feel like we know ourselves well enough to choose a direction to walk in. Maybe we can’t name a hobby we’d like to try, we lost touch with what motivates us, or we have trouble simply naming something that would feel good.
The first step, then, is to find what is authentic to you.
And once you’ve found it? Then it’s all about living in alignment with it. That might look as simple as resting when you’re tired, or as complex as finding new ways to honour the creative voice you’ve uncovered — the stuff that creative reclamation is made of.
These posts are meant to meet you where you’re at, moving through practical tips for self-discovery, through authenticity and authentic living, to experimenting with creative endeavors until one ignites that spark!
To add a little whimsy to your week, I wrote a 5-part narrative email journey to spark your imagination and help you return to your creative self.
🎨 Practical guides
How to Make ‘Finding Your Hobby’ a Grounding Personal Project
Ideas on how to start a creative project when you’re not sure what your “thing” is yet.
Reflection and Direction: Charting the Course for a Creative New Year
Whether you’re at the end of a year or just ready for a change, this post walks through the transition process and offers a guide for intentional planning.
The Intention Word: An Impactful New Year’s Tradition (and My Pick for 2025)
Building on reflection and direction, setting an intention word is a great way to get aligned with your vision for the year (or period) ahead.
🌺 Authenticity and authentic living
How To Embrace Authenticity In Your Daily Life
Exploring the concept of authenticity and introducing three pillars to cultivating authenticity in daily life.
The Key to Cultivating Authenticity (and a Significant Omission from the Three Pillars Approach!)
Further reading on authentic living, plus the secret ingredient that makes life a little more delicious.
Where Authenticity Gets Tricky: Exploring the Grey Areas
Exploring the nuances of authentic living, including staying authentic while stepping out of your comfort zone, when creating for an audience, and when at work.
🧭 Motivation and encouragement
Are You Lost? (Offering You Some Heartfelt Encouragement)
A playful piece on walking your own, unfolding path — because not all those who wander are lost.
A personal reflective essay on creating lasting, meaningful change.
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: How To Embrace the Multi-Passionate Chaos
For when you have far more hobbies and interests than time.
Ready to write your story?
Although I’ve presented it as its own chapter, reconnecting with yourself isn’t a solitary phase. It happens any time you look inward and discover what has meaning or value to you. You reconnect with yourself when you find ways to reclaim your energy, just as much as when you embrace your creativity.
Reconnecting with yourself takes time — you are a wonderful, multifaceted being after all! It’s there in that time spent looking inward that you’ll find the inspiration, motivation, and meaning that moves you toward the feeling of alignment.
What’s next?
Browse more from this chapter here: Reconnect With Yourself Archives
I write a monthly letter that’s like an authentic little window into my own creative process (with tips and prompts to help you stay in touch with yours). Feel free to check it out, and stay connected!
You might also like to visit another chapter in the creative reclamation story arc:
Reclaim Your Energy – to feel grounded, rested, and human again.
Make Space to Create – to welcome creativity into your daily life.
The Creative Practice – to stay connected to your creativity.
