It’s been a while! I’ve had an intense autumn of changes, new balances and I’m back with here on Youtube to reflect on it all in this seasonal planning vlog. I’ll take you through everything that happened in autumn, how I’m finding balancing running a business with a part time writing job, and what I have in mind for winter.

I also share my tips for reflecting about your autumn and planning your winter. This is the season of reflection, and oh am I ready for it!

It's been in my plans for a while, and now is the time: I'm starting a podcast! In this video, I take you behind the scenes as I prepare for my podcast launch, figuring out the technical side, designing a podcast cover, and recording and intro and outro.

I'm so so excited about this new adventure, and I hope you'll come with me!

Do you celebrate your creative milestones? As creatives, many of us don't. We don't celebrate the steps on the way, the behind the scenes milestones we hit. When we celebrate, it's the things that are valuable in other people's eyes: our results.

But I believe we should celebrate our own creative process just as much, if not more. In this video, I create a milestone board to celebrate running my creative business full-time for one year. I talk about what I'm proud, memories, and lessons learned.

This year, I set a goal to cultivate a life of writing. After a year with no fiction writing, I’m ready to make writing a priority in my life again. In this video I talk about content writing, freelance writing and book writing. I share six things I’m doing this year to cultivate a life of writing, that you can do too if you want to be a writer, and live a writing life.

I have something to tell you. For a while now, I’ve been working on something new, and it’s time for me to tell you about it. So many different parts of my creative work and my view on living a creative life are coming together in this. It’s a space for creating in tune with the seasons, for finding and holding onto the joy of your creative process, for creative community, and gentle accountability in your everyday creative life.

Welcome to Companions In Creativity!

It’s time! After over a year away from my book project, it’s time to start a new draft of my novel. In this cosy vlog, I take you along my first day of working on it again, talk about past and current writing habits, the pros and cons of NaNoWriMo and give you tips about starting up an old project again.

Writing a book is such big, fun work. It’s a long process and it’s so important to have good writing habits at hand. I’m very excited about settling into writing again, and I hope you enjoy coming along this gloomy, cosy autumn day.

In April, I started something I called my 6 month business leap. I took leave from my day job to grow my creative business, with the hope to keep going full-time after. Now it’s the end of September and the end of my leap. In the video, I take you behind the scenes and share what my leap has been like, how it went - and what’s next.

Working towards creative dreams is a scary but wonderful pursuit. This is one chapter of my creative journey that I will never forget.

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!

Oh the feeling of having a clear vision for the creative work you want to bring into the world! It’s not just a lovely, inspiring feeling, it’s also a great tool in your creative projects. In this video, we talk visions, why we need them, how you can clarify your vision and then capture it in a vision board!

I love vision boards. I love making them, and I love using them to remind me of my vision throughout the creative project. They help you find that inspiration and motivation again when you might start doubting your ideas along the way. So let’s make a vision board!

Oh have I got some big news for you! After years of daydreaming, after months of planning, it's finally happening - I’m taking the leap. I'm taking my creative coaching business full time and pursuing a full time creative and slow life. I’m so very excited and so very outside of my comfort zone and I can’t wait to take you along.

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!

After years of outlining, writing and editing, I've completed my novel manuscript and I'm now ready to send it to publishers! In this video I share my tips for sticking with and completing big creative projects that will take a long time to finish. It's what I'm often helping my creative coaching clients with.

It doesn't matter if your big project is to write a book, build a creative business, become a professional photographer, or something completely different - this video is for you.

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.