Applied creativity that transforms burden into nourishment through gentle guidance, community connection, and steady space to do the work that brings you to life.
It’s not too late. You’re not too old. You’re not broken or bad. You’ve just been creating in isolation, and creators need connection. And if you’re a human with a beating heart, you are a creator, whether you like the language of it or not. There just might be some extra layers of conditions to your current terminology.
To get back to your creative essence, the creative essence of humankind, to connect beyond conditions, let’s widen the frame, expand your circle, find some new language.
Baby steps. I can help.
I provide space for you to do the work that matters to you. Whether it’s:
I create the holding space for you to take action – with full acceptance and celebration of whatever action you take & gentle accountability for taking those aligned actions.
Most programs give you more to do. I give you space to do the work you know you need to do. Make space to do the work that matters to you. Designed for your unique learning styles and creative process
We’re not creating more conditions on your creativity. We’re actively deconditioning – walking away from the conditions that may be depriving you of the pleasure and joy essential to creating a life you love everyday.
What if you could create for the pure pleasure of it? What if you had a sacred practice to express yourself fully, completely, in a language that is just for you? And what if, in the process of taking that creative space for yourself, you become able to serve from overflow instead of drawing from an empty well?
Coaching for Creative Recovery is a transformational process that helps you audit, experiment, and devote so you can apply your creative power to create a life you love every day.
No artistic endeavor required. No creative skill required. This isn’t that kind of creativity.
This is the human kind of creating – using your imagination to see what else might be possible. To recognize magic among the mundane.
Virtual sessions are 60 minutes and scheduled to fit your creative life – weekly, every other week, or monthly depending on what serves you best.
In our work together, we’ll:
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Everything I’ve learned has been essential medicine in my own journey through creative recovery. As a young wife and mama, I was only 6 weeks postpartum with baby number two when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at age 25. I got lost under the pressure of caretaking and needing to receive extra care all at the same time. “Who am I?” became one of the questions I most dreaded.
Always managing to find some words, something true, something real to anchor into, I fumbled my way through the next dozen years or so, and by some measure of magic, I found Reiki and expressive arts. I found people who had language to describe things in ways that I felt in my bones. I found creativity again. I found that life force energy that had be smoldering under the burden of care, and with a renewed sense of love and care, I started to write new stories that broke through the conditions. I stopped waiting for someday when I felt better, and I started feeling my way into well-being.
One small step at a time. One word at a time. One moment at a time.
I’ve done the research and experimentation and trained so I can help you see through the muck in your mind, limitations in your body, or drain on your spirit. I help you connect the dots to the way through by teaching you to pause, discern, and respond.
You’ll learn to apply your creative power and resources to create the life you want – the life you love to live every day. We’re not waiting for the weekend.
I’ve been through it. What really helped me was finding guides who helped me recognize that I do actually have everything I need within me.
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” – Jack Gilbert (via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic)
Liz Gilbert says in Big Magic, “But I will never forget what the real Jack Gilbert told somebody else—an actual flesh-and-blood person, a shy University of Tennessee student. This young woman recounted to me that one afternoon, after his poetry class, Jack had taken her aside. He complimented her work, then asked what she wanted to do with her life. Hesitantly, she admitted that perhaps she wanted to be a writer. He smiled at the girl with infinite compassion and asked, ‘Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.'”
Saying yes doesn’t mean we go it alone. Saying yes means that we know we’re going to need a crew to cheer us on and help us when it gets rough.
In private coaching with Owl-Create and Monday morning “Atmosphere” zoom meetings, I have discovered an endangered humankind. Elizabeth is truly an ABCD which stands for Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
— Bonnie Schell, Author, Mental Health Advocate
Book a free curiosity call where we’ll explore how we fit together. If it doesn’t work out, no hard feelings. I trust that we’ll each have made a new friend and taken some small action towards whatever it is you’re wanting to create with your life.
