For every ‘crazy creative’ on World Mental Health Day

For every ‘crazy creative’ on World Mental Health Day

This is love for you on World Mental Health Day, if you’re a creative who struggles sometimes. If anyone has ever called you a ‘crazy creative’. ❤️ This is for you if you’ve thought there’s something ‘wrong’. ⛈ This is love if you’ve wondered why your brain seems so...
A moment to grow in the changing seasons

A moment to grow in the changing seasons

September! Do you love it or hate it? For me, I’ve spent this month pulled oh-so-strongly in different directions. Firstly, after the long school holidays – when I spend as much time as I can with my son – I’m thrilled to have more time back. I’m back to...
7 lessons from a liminal space (or a writing retreat)

7 lessons from a liminal space (or a writing retreat)

Last week I took myself off, all by myself, with nothing but my laptop, notes, and a couple of books. I was in search of a liminal space – a place between worlds, almost, where I could join the dots and create. It turned out to be as much of a footpath: a...
Finding my liminal space to create

Finding my liminal space to create

This week, I’m doing something I’ve never done. I’m off on a personal writing retreat, to create my liminal space. In anthropology, liminality is a transient, ambiguous state between two rituals, such as those between childhood and adulthood. An...
11 reasons a poetry habit will change your thinking

11 reasons a poetry habit will change your thinking

It calms your brain chemistry, develops your cognitive flexibility and deepens your ability to focus. Here’s why a poetry habit should be central to your creative life To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your...

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