Beginning a creative project is thrilling - and challenging. I've started many projects, and as a creative coach, I've helped many creatives start their projects. In this video, I bring you with me on a spring walk through the forest and talk beginnings. I share the three most common challenges I see creatives facing in this stage, and how to navigate your way through it.

Are you a blogger, artist or writer sharing your creativity online? Do you want to improve your photography with some small, simple tweaks? Then this video is for you! When I started blogging in 2016, I knew very little about photography. Over the years, I’ve taught myself the basics and learned to take better photos.

Good photography can make a huge difference for how you and your creative work is perceived, and it can be a fun, creative part of sharing your art with the world. In this video, I share my five best photography for beginners tips to quickly take better photos!

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.

We live in a world that would prefer us to always keep going, going, going. But regardless of what hustle culture says, we need rest as humans and as creatives. Rest is a natural part of the creative process, and to be happy, fulfilled and good creatives, we need to allow it to be.

In this video I take you with me on a snowy walk to a place I like to go when I'm feeling stressed or tense, to find rest and calm. I talk about what rest looks like in this season of my creative life, and how we can embrace creative rest.

Had any good ideas lately? Sometimes it's hard, right? The inspiration well feels completely dry and you could use some new ideas. In this video, I share the three step process of coming up with and developing ideas for creative projects. Whether it's a big or small project, you can use this process to find new ideas as well as develop them.

Don’t we all feel lost sometimes? So many of the creatives I work with as a creative coach come to me feeling lost. Unsure of where to go next, what steps to take first, what they truly want and overwhelmed by all the possibilities. So I thought it was about time we talked about this feeling - why do we feel lost? Where does it come from, and what can we do to find our paths again?

In this video, I share three common reasons for feeling lost in your creative life, and what we can do to deal with them. I also share when I’ve felt lost in my creative path and how being lost is something I’ve become comfortable with and actually quite enjoy.

We all want to find our own distinct voice and style in our creative work. Regardless of whether you are an artist, writer, photographer, blogger or musician, you want to stand out somehow, and stand out as you. But how do you discover what makes you unique, and how do you start developing a style that is truly yours?

In this video, I share five exercises you can do to hone your creative voice and find your creative style. As a creative coach, it’s part of my job to help creatives uncover their style. It always takes some digging and experimenting, but the keys to your creative style is there, inside of you.

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?

Slow creative moments are my some of my favourite moments in life. Shaping those moments and folding them into my life is how I have pursued slow living and a more creative life over the last couple of years. Pursuing a slow life and creative ideas can be a bigger life-change, but we can also do it in our small, every day moments.

Sometimes it's difficult to sit down and create and find that right mood and flow though. Having a ritual to begin your slow creative moments can really help set the mood. In this video I share my own ritual and the things I do when I need something extra to get into the moment.

Oh those early days of a creative project! The days of dreaming, of wondering, of making visions and dipping your toes. But also - the days of self-doubt and overwhelm and paralysis. That is what I'm talking about in this video - the beginning stages of a creative project and how you can navigate them.

Way too many projects end before we've barely gotten started. We get stuck in those beginning stages and never make our way through them. But we can, of course, YOU can - one step at a time.

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!

Many of us pursue creative projects and slow living on the side of a full-time job. It can feel challenging and like time is always sparse, but I have done it for many years now and it's absolutely possible. In this video I share what I think is the biggest struggle, yet something we rarely talk about - and give you my tips for doing creative work and living slowly alongside a day job.

Making time for creativity and slow living activities isn't about fitting in as much in your life as possible, it's about living with intention.

All creatives deal with overwhelm from time to time - and especially in the beginning of a new year. We have just set yearly goals and we’re thinking about how we want to move forward in our creative work. And along comes overwhelm.

The same thing can happen in the beginning of a creative project. It doesn’t matter if you’re a writer, artist, photographer, blogger, youtuber, designer or something else - creative work can be overwhelming.

In this video I show you how to deal with overwhelm, both short term and long term. Because you can do it - you can move forward in your creative projects one step at a time, even it feels daunting right now.

Oh January - the time when everyone is talking about setting goals, making resolutions or choosing a word for the year. Setting goals for our creative work can feel inspiring and empowering, and it can help us find focus and move forward.

But the wrong kind of goal can become something that just makes you feel stressed and like a failure. So how do we set GOOD creative goals, that actually help and support us to move forward in our creative lives? That's the topic of today's video!

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.

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.