It's that time again! Spring is starting, and it's time for another seasonal planning vlog. In this video, I take you through reflections on how winter went, how our energy and creativity looks in spring, choosing focus areas and planning your spring. I also share how winter went for me, and what I have planned in my creative life this spring.

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.

A good plan makes everything easier. I'm an avid planner, have gone through many different planning systems, and created a planning process that works really well. In this video, I walk your through my entirely planning process that I use in my creative business and my creative work. I talk about yearly planning, seasonal planning, content plans, Trello, monthly planning, and weekly planning.

As humans and as creatives, we are constantly changing. Our identities shift, our interests change, and with it, the vision for our creative lives are in constant development. Lots of us are thinking about the year ahead right now, and what we want in our creative work.

In this video, I tell you about losing my vision, reflecting on the past year, and my intentions for the year ahead. And I talk about what it’s like to form or change your creative vision, for projects and for your creative life.

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.

Winter is just around the corner here in Sweden, and it's time for another seasonal planning vlog! I love planning my creative work in tune with the seasons, and in this video I take you along as I reflect on my autumn, and choose my creative focus for winter. I also share some planning tips and talk about how our energy and creativity tend to look during winter.

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.

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.

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.

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.