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  • Welcome!
  • Start here
  • Blog
    • Reclaim Your Energy
    • Reconnect with Yourself
    • Make Space to Create
    • The Creative Practice
  • Mini Series
    • Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist
    • Adventures in Writing
    • The Busy Season Survival Guide
    • Making Space
    • The Busy Creative’s Guide to Bullet Journaling
    • The Rapid Log
  • About the Writer
  • Let’s Connect
  • Newsletter
  • Resources
  • Where authenticity gets tricky exploring the grey areas
    Reconnect With Yourself

    Where Authenticity Gets Tricky: Exploring the Grey Areas

    January 12, 2024

    Is it just me who thinks that sometimes authenticity is a bit… Tricky? Maybe it’s my accountant’s mind, but I keep looking for the “rules of authenticity”, and I can’t find them. There may not be a rulebook, but we cover three guiding pillars in: How To Embrace Authenticity In…

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  • Embracing Authenticity In Your Daily Life
    Reclaim Your Energy - Reconnect With Yourself

    How To Embrace Authenticity In Your Daily Life

    January 11, 2024

    My intention word for the year: "Authenticity." In this post we explore how to cultivate authenticity and we delve into the challenges of maintaining authenticity in various areas of life including our comfort zones, creativity, and workplaces.

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  • Reflection & Direction: Charting the Course for a Creative New Year
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    Reflection and Direction: Charting the Course for a Creative New Year

    December 28, 2023

    As the new year approaches, take a moment to reflect on the past year and envision the future! In this post we talk about appreciating where we've been and charting the course for a creative New Year with goals, intentions, vision boards, and the trusty calendar.

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  • Creative Hibernation: Staying engaged during a necessary pause.
    Make Space to Create

    Dealing With Creative Hibernation (It’s Cold and Flu Season!)

    December 7, 2023

    Whether it's cold and flu season, a ballooning workload, or unforeseen life events, disruption to our routines can push us right out of our creative practices. In this post we talk about how to deal with a period of "creative hibernation", when all we want to do is make stuff!

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  • Watercolour literally running away from the perfectionism problem
    The Creative Practice

    Literally Running Away From the Perfectionism Problem

    October 10, 2023

    Running is one of my favourite ways to break through a creative block, but it wasn't always! In this post I share my journey to the joy of running and explore the valuable lessons in life and creativity that it offers.

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  • Watercolour sketch of Billie Eilish from the art journal
    The Creative Practice

    Billie Eilish on Carpool Karaoke and the Joy of Just Messing Around

    September 22, 2023

    There’s something about Billie Eilish that pulls me in and makes me want to make things. Can anyone else relate? I was watching the Billie Eilish episode of Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, and I was immediately transported back to my own teenage years, just messing around making music and…

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  • Find time, Make Space and Create collage
    Make Space to Create

    Barriers to Creativity: Finding Time and Making Space

    August 26, 2023

    There are plenty of barriers to creativity, and you can absolutely blast through them. In order to do that, you need to deal with the first two: finding time, and making space. These will be your springboard as you reconnect with your creativity.

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  • Blue merle order collie with a ball wanting to play watercolour painting
    Make Space to Create

    Pent-Up Creative Energy (Living With the Inner Border Collie)

    August 19, 2023

    Elizabeth Gilbert said, "Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet; it needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble." I immediately identified with this statement when I recognized this pent-up creative energy in myself. Here…

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  • Creativity, Lost and Found: My Story (and Signs It's Time to Reconnect With Yours)
    Make Space to Create

    Creativity, Lost and Found: My Story (and Signs it’s Time to Reconnect With Yours)

    August 12, 2023

    Lost your creative spark? This post explores how career and burnout quietly disconnect you from your creativity, how to recognize it, and how to start creating for yourself again. Does my story resonate? Let's set out on our journey back to our creativity!

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  • Encouraging mug on stones create
    The Creative Practice

    Debit This, Create That: A New Venture in Balancing the Books and the Creative Life

    August 5, 2023

    If you’ve ever slumped back in your chair and thought gosh, I’d really love to chat with my accountant about embracing the creative life… My friend, you’ve come to the right place! (Kidding, kidding...) This is the first post of a new venture: a blog in which one accountant balances…

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