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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
  • Bullet journaling basis - what it is and what you need to start one
    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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  • Learn by Doing and Let Go of Perfectionism
    The Creative Practice

    “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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  • Reclaim Your Energy

    Why I’m Happily Back in the Office (and the Drawbacks of WFH)

    May 29, 2024

    We cubicle bumblebees love to idealize work-from-home arrangements. The reclamation of commute time, the quiet space, the sweatpants… But there's a certain joy that's come from returning to the office after three years!

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  • Make Space to Create - Reclaim Your Energy

    Reclaiming My Creative Space (and Reprioritizing My Life)

    May 15, 2024

    I was struck by inspiration one evening, just as I was setting up my home office to return to work after a creatively expansive year-long maternity leave. It came in the form of this quote:  Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write,…

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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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