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.

It’s that time again! A new season is arriving and for us who plan seasonally, it’s time to sit down and choose what we’re going to focus on. I love to plan my creative work and my projects in harmony with the seasons. It creates a clear focus instead of being overwhelmed by all the ideas and to dos, and it feels wonderful to embrace the seasons in my creativity as well.

In this video, I talk about seasonal planning, how autumn tends to affect our creativity, how my summer went, what my plans for autumn are, and give you tips for choosing your creative focus for autumn.

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.

To write a book is a BIG project, and starting that process can be incredibly overwhelming. I often work with creative coaching clients who have book ideas, to get clearer on the book they want to write, and to actually start writing it. It’s not easy to know how to write a book if you’re a beginner at it!

So in this video, I take you through five steps to get started with a book project. Writing a book is wonderful and challenging, and getting started is the most important step. So let’s do it!

The world can be a stressful place, but our creative lives don’t have to be. You don’t have to hustle for your creative dreams, you don’t have to stress through your creative process or overwork yourself for creative goals. Instead, you can build a slower creative life.

A couple of years ago, I discovered slow living and since then, I’ve used it to bring in more calm into my creative process. In this video I share three ways you can use slow living in your creative life.

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!

It’s that time again - time to plan for the season ahead! Summer is just around the corner, flowers are blooming all around here and I’m making my summer planning. I’ve been planning seasonally for a year and a half now and it’s a process I love.

In this vlog, I take you along in my summer planning and talk about why planning your creative work in tune with the seasons is so good. I also share how summer affects us and our creativity, and give you some tips for planning your summer.

Pursuing creative dreams or making big life changes can be completely overwhelming. So much needs to happen, the way there is so long, and we don't know if things will even work out. But it's all worth it when it's something you truly want.

In this video, I take you along building a long-term strategy towards big dreams, goals and life changes and then breaking it all the way down to the small everyday activities you can do. I also share how my strategy towards a slow and creative life looks, and talk about patience and the importance of enjoying the journey.

It started as a daydream of a different kind of life. A life where I wasn’t trapped at a desk all day, where I had the space to pursue my creative projects wholeheartedly. A slower life with my own gentle rhythm. Over the last five years or so, I’ve turned that daydream into reality.

Pursuing a slow living lifestyle and a creative life is something you can do within the life you’re already living. But it can also be a bigger life-change, one that take years to make. In this video, I talk about them both, and how I’ve built a slow and creative life.

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.

Finding your WHY in your creative work and life can be such a source of clarity and direction. In this video, I share why having a why is so helpful and how you can find yours. We go through the two different whys - your personal why and the broader message of your work - and how you can dig into them both.

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!

Spring is finally on our doorstep and it's time to plan for spring. I have planned my creative work seasonally for a little over a year now and I'm enjoying it so much. I think you will too! Seasonal living is a wonderful part of slow living and blends very well with creative work.

In this video, I take you through my process of planning for the season ahead. We go looking for spring signs and talk about how spring affects our mood, energy and creativity as well!

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.

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.

Our world is obsessed with more and faster. But a growing group of people is pursuing a different path - the one of slow living. It’s a quiet, peaceful movement towards a world with more harmony.

The last couple of years, I’ve weaved in slow living habits into my days and my creative life. It has helped me deal with stress and find balance and calm in my life like nothing else has. In this video, I take you along in some of my slow living habits and share tips and inspiration for shaping your own slow living habits. If you’re curious about making space for more slow and calm in your life, this video is for you!

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!

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.