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.

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.