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  • 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
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  • How to Use a Bullet Journal: Key Spreads & Methodology
    The Creative Practice

    How to Start a Bullet Journal (Simple Guide + Rapid Logging Explained)

    June 28, 2025

    If you’re new to bullet journaling but overwhelmed by all the spreads, trackers, and routines out there, you’re in the right place! The key to getting started is to keep it as simple as possible. A simple routine is easier to adopt and quicker to become second-nature. (That’s the point…

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    The Creative Practice

    What’s a Bullet Journal? (And What You Actually Need to Get Started)

    March 14, 2025

    What got you curious about bullet journaling? Was it those gorgeous spreads adorned with brush pen lettering, washi tape, and colour-coded habit trackers? Me too!  But the very same images that piqued our curiosity can also feel overwhelming when we’re just starting out. The truth is that bullet journaling wasn’t…

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    On Connection and Creative Self-Expression (I Made Holiday Cards!)

    December 26, 2024

    Look how cute! I just love making watercolour greeting cards. They’re a little tradition that gets me in the holiday spirit, and being handmade, they’re filled with loving gratitude for their recipients, plus the joy that lies in the making. I like to choose a theme and try to incorporate…

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    Listen To Your Authentic Voice: Four Questions For Creative Clarity

    December 1, 2024

    This is a blog about creativity, so of course we love talking about fear! Creative expression is an honest reflection of yourself out into the world, and this is not an easy thing to do. Naturally, a lot of fear comes with the territory – fear of judgement, fear of…

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    Reconnect With Yourself - The Creative Practice

    Time to Start A New Venture? Don’t Let Fear Get The Majority Vote On Your Creative Journey

    November 24, 2024

    There are three major voices that weigh in on our creative journeys: Fear, Logic, and the Inner Creative. We get stuck when Fear gets the majority vote. In this post we explore how these voices work together (and how to get them to cooperate!)

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  • How To Embrace the Multi-Passionate Chaos
    Reconnect With Yourself - The Creative Practice

    Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: How To Embrace the Multi-Passionate Chaos

    November 10, 2024

    You have a bunch of different projects on the go. They’re all pulling for your attention at the same time, and you can’t seem to finish any of them. When you do get a little free time to work on something, you can’t decide where to focus… And you make…

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  • Learn by Doing and Let Go of Perfectionism
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    “Learn by Doing” Works Best in the Absence of Perfectionism

    November 3, 2024

    If you are a “learn by doing” person, you must check your perfectionism at the door for it to be effective. Why? At least for me, to “learn by doing” means that you: Perfectionism can cripple the process in a couple ways, either: Hold on – in order to “learn…

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  • Adventures in Writing: A New Approach to Blogging (That Came From My Day Job!)
    The Creative Practice

    Adventures in Writing: How to Focus Your Writing (Advice From My Day Job!)

    October 27, 2024

    My writing… Lacks focus and structure. Not too long ago I wrote a post about the struggle to blog concisely. Honestly, I had a hard time conceptualizing why it felt like such a struggle in the first place. Writing concisely should be easy, right? Is it not just “less is…

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    Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: Navigating the Perfectionism Trap

    October 21, 2024

    Perfectionism is the enemy of the multi-passionate creative. Of course, it’s a problem for any creative, but for a serial hobbyist, perfectionism can be particularly stifling. Why? We tend to deep-dive into many topics or hobbies, and that often means perfection is out of the question. Jack of all, master…

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  • Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: What Keeps Me Writing
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    Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: What Keeps Me Writing

    October 14, 2024

    My last post was largely about the struggle to write concisely, specifically in blogging. As I wrote that, I was examining my motivation and realized that while the skill of brevity and the end goal of “being useful” to a reader is important, what I was really interested in was…

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