The reality of any creative project is that there will be hard parts. There will be times when you feel you can’t do it, when things get messy and you get stuck. It happens for everyone! Which is why getting through these parts is so important for all creatives.

In this Mindset Monday video I guide you through five steps to navigate a messy part of the creative process. A lot of it comes down to your mindset and whether you decide to accept the challenge you’re standing before. Will you?

We all have stories we have picked up along the way about who we are, what we are capable of and what we’re supposed to do. And some of these stories can hold us back from doing things we want to do and from growing - they are limiting beliefs. For creatives, artists and writers, this can create blocks in our creative work. In this video, I tell you about a story that held me back for a good couple of years, and how you can release the stories that keep you from moving forward in your creative life.

This is the first Mindset Monday - a new video series I’m trying over the summer. Every other video or so will be about a mindset issue you might be facing in your creative life. Hope you’ll enjoy them!

Once upon a time, I didn’t dare call myself creative. In this video, I share my story of struggling with fear of failure in my creative work when I began my journey. How it held me back from writing the novel I dreamed of writing, and then eventually led me to spending a year facing my creative fears.

Fear of failure and perfectionism is a big source of creative blocks and feeling stuck. If fear and self-doubt is something you struggle with, I hope this video can inspire you, make you feel less alone and find some tools to try. Because all our creative voices matters!

It can be difficult to move forward when you’re feeling a little stuck and uncertain in your creative life. But I really believe it’s a state we all can get out of. We just have to understand what’s holding us back and what we can do to find our way through it.

This isn’t a quick fix kind of video. Instead, I share what I believe to be the three key things we need to be able to move forward in our creative work, and how we can dig deeper in each of those areas to get moving again.

Feeling stuck in your creative work and projects is so very common. It has happened to me many times in my creative journey and it's something I often help my creative coaching clients with as well.

But why does it happen? What is it really that keeps us stuck? Sometimes we assume it's just things like lack of productivity and structure, but I think it's almost always something deeper than that. In this video we get into what I believe those things are so we can better understand we why feel stuck.

For a while now, I’ve been curious about making videos. After a lot of pondering and doubting, I finally decided to start a Youtube channel. In this first video, I share my journey starting this journey and share my three top tips for beginning new creative projects.