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I make videos about making creative projects and living a creative life. Here you find inspiration, behind the scenes vlogs and some tips for your creative life.

Fear of Failure: My Story & How I Spent One Year Facing My Creative Fears
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Fear of Failure: My Story & How I Spent One Year Facing My Creative Fears

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!

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How To Deal With Overwhelm In Your Creative Projects
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How To Deal With Overwhelm In Your Creative Projects

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.

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Setting Goals For Your Creative Work This Year (That Actually Feels Good)
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Setting Goals For Your Creative Work This Year (That Actually Feels Good)

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!

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Wishing You Happy Holidays & Looking Back On My Creative Year
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Wishing You Happy Holidays & Looking Back On My Creative Year

It's that time of the year! In this video, I invite you in for some Christmas decorating and a cosy chat about the creative year we're leaving behind.

I share my creative highlights of the year - and I would love to hear what yours are. What are you proud of yourself for doing in 2020? Or what have you realised about yourself and your creative journey? Share in the comments over on Youtube!

Thank you for support me in big and small this year - I'm grateful for everything. Happy Holidays & I'll see you in 2021!

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Seasonal Living For Creatives: How To Plan Your Creative Work In Tune With The Seasons
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Seasonal Living For Creatives: How To Plan Your Creative Work In Tune With The Seasons

Do you also find that your mood, inspiration and energy is very much affected by the seasons? What if we embraced those shifts in our creative work? During the past two years, I’ve researched and explored how the seasons affect us in our creativity and creative work.

In this video, I share the tendencies I’ve found, what kind of creative work each season is best for, and a way to plan your creative work both in tune with the seasons and your creative goals.

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What Do You Want In Your Creative Life?
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What Do You Want In Your Creative Life?

Knowing what you want in your creative work and life can be a whole process in itself. Whether it's how you want a new project to look, what you want to create, or a change you want to make in your creative life - it takes some figuring out.

In this video, I give you three tips for when you're finding your direction and working out what you want in your creative life.

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How To Release Creative Blocks, Get Unstuck and Move Forward in Your Creative Work
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How To Release Creative Blocks, Get Unstuck and Move Forward in Your Creative Work

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.

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Why We Get Creative Blocks and Get Stuck in Our Creative Work
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Why We Get Creative Blocks and Get Stuck in Our Creative Work

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.

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