Creative Play Newsletter – Sitting Still
Back in my very first year of this newsletter, I wrote about my life coach telling me to sit in a chair until I felt moved to do something. I was horrified. A whole day? Doing nothing? I did it anyway, and it turned out that slowing down was exactly …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Coming Back
It’s been more than six months since my last newsletter, after nearly a decade of showing up in your inbox every month without fail. I’ve thought about needing to write this every month but just never got it done. The honest explanation is this: I’ve been dealing with depression, and …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Is Something Stealing Your Creativity?
Last week I had the joy of spending a few days at Kripalu for the Reclaim Your Creativity workshop. It was a deep dive into play, self-expression, and noticing where our creative energy flows—or, in my case, where it’s been leaking away. One of the most surprising moments came during …
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Creative Play Newsletter – What is the Muse Asking of You?
There are moments in the creativity journey when we seek inspiration—when we brainstorm, pin ideas, and wait for the spark. And then there are moments when the Muse arrives uninvited, tapping us on the shoulder with a message we never expected to carry. The idea for the Victims Quilt Project …
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Creativity as Nourishment: Feeding the Parts of You That Get Overlooked
Have you ever felt like you were running on empty—not from lack of sleep or food, but something harder to name? A kind of soul-hunger? We talk a lot about health in terms of nutrition, exercise, and rest. But there’s another kind of nourishment we often overlook: the creative kind. …
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The Artist’s Spring Awakening: Embracing Growth in Creativity
For most of history, our lives followed natural cycles of work and rest, but modern life has disconnected us from these rhythms. Creativity, like nature, moves through seasons—periods of inspiration, production, reflection, and rest. Recognizing and embracing these cycles can help us nurture our creative energy rather than forcing it …
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Planting Seeds: What I’m Cultivating in My Creative Life
Spring is a season of renewal, a time when nature reminds us that growth is always possible. As the world around us begins to bloom, I find myself reflecting on what I want to cultivate in my own creative life. Just like a garden, creativity requires planting seeds, nurturing them, …
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Creative Play Newsletter-Creating in Tough Times
In my last newsletter, I told you about a series of work that I called my “Accidental Protest” series that I began in January of 2017. It wasn’t planned—I hadn’t set out to create “serious” pieces with strong social justice messages outside of my Victims Quilt Project. But as the …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Burnout
I’ve been writing a lot on LinkedIn lately about burnout. It’s something that I have dealt with twice in my working life and it seems rampant these days. You may not spend your days in a 9-to-5 job, but that doesn’t mean you can’t experience burnout. What is burnout? The …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Create Your Identity
Nearly a decade ago, I went through an identity crisis. At the time, I decided that I would make myself a quilt for my birthday using 40 pieces of cherished purple batiks.. I also decided that I would make it represent me in some way, other than just having the …
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