Soft Starts: The Kind, Gentle, and Unhurried Ways For the rest of the year, we’re exploring soft starts: the kind, gentle, and unhurried ways we enter our mornings, our projects, and our seasons. Not with force, but with presence. Our culture enjoys the rush. Rushing out of the door in the mornings, rushing to the next […]

Godmothers Bookstore We’ve been going to Santa Barbara a lot lately, one of my favorite places. Now, I love a good bookstore! We’re avid readers in our house, especially reading to our little girl. And because of our more frequent visits to Santa Barbara/Montecito area, we’ve scheduled in stops at one of the most beautiful […]

Chase the Wonder, Not Only Goals (Birthday Reflections) “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” — Mary Oliver There was a point in my life when I believed, if I wasn’t hitting all of my ‘goals’ — or continuously moving forward — I was falling behind. That progress looked like […]

Do Less, Create More A Creative’s Guide to Delegation and Task Management Delegate! As creatives, we often wear all the hats. We’re the visionary, the content creator, the admin, the social media manager, and the person replying to every late-night email. Sound familiar? But here’s the truth: your creativity thrives in spaciousness. And spaciousness doesn’t happen […]

5 Must-Have Creative Tools Streamline your workflow and boost your creativity, today, with these 5 creative tools! Let’s be real, being creative isn’t just about ideas. It’s about systems that support those ideas. Over the years, I’ve tested dozens of tools in my work as a writer, filmmaker and creative consultant. But these five? They’ve become my […]

Ditch the Labels: How to Create and Redefine Who You Are Beyond Your Job Title This week, discover how to ditch the labels (and break free from their limitations)! You Are Not Just What You Do In a world obsessed with titles, achievements, and hustle culture, it’s easy to start believing that your value lies […]

Small Kinds Kindness, to be kind. You can begin small. I call them, small kinds. A couple of months ago I was at the dentist. Yep, the dreaded dentist visit. The hygienist there was chatting with me and just jumped right into something I needed to hear: “Take care of yourself. As a first time […]

Process Over Results: Enhancing Your Creativity and Well-Being w/Emily Harris And why the process over results mindset is key to long-term creative growth and enhancing your well-being! 🙂 Nowadays, it’s easy to think that success and fulfillment lies in achieving big goals fast. Our culture often glorifies hustle, speed, and visible achievements, so it’s easy to […]

The Perfect Time is an Illusion The perfect time is an illusion. The world will try to do what it does, it will try to get in your head, mess with your day, tell you, “Where you are right now is the best there is for you.” We cannot control others. But we can control […]

Joy and happiness. What causes joy? Can you make yourself happy?  JOY manifests from knowing who you are, making peace with that, and your purpose here. HAPPINESS comes in all forms, and it arises by something good happening to us or around us. Joy and happiness, intertwined, are essential for a healthy lifestyle and a healthy journey. Below are five […]