Rediscover Your Creative Flow
You know that feeling when you’re completely absorbed in your creative work? When time disappears, self-doubt fades, and ideas flow effortlessly? That’s the creative flow state. Did you know that it can be cultivated and accessed on demand?
Why Midlife?
Why Midlife, Why Now?
I am on a mission to show that midlife can be a time of peak creative performance.
Midlife brings unique advantages for creativity. We have life experience, emotional depth, and often more clarity about what truly matters. Midlife can be a time of reawakening and rediscovery. We often know ourselves better and this can create space for authentic creative expression.
But midlife also brings challenges – shifting priorities, energy changes, and sometimes years of creative dormancy. Flow science offers a proven path back to your creative self, using your brain’s natural capacity for peak performance in the context of a rich library of experience.
Research shows that understanding flow triggers and conditions can help you access this state more frequently and reliably – turning sporadic creative moments into consistent creative power.
Flow Resources Preview
start Your Flow Journey
Resources to help you rediscover your creative power.
Weekly Creative Practice LIVE
Every Sunday I hold a LIVE creative practice session on YouTube.
Weekly Newsletter
Every Sunday I send out The Weekly Process with a round up of that week’s finds in flow and emotions.
Who This Is For
Is This You?
feeling disconnected
You feel disconnected from the creative spark you once had, or you’re ready to explore creativity but don’t know where to start.
Professional creative challenges
You’re a professional creative experiencing blocks, burnout, or seeking deeper meaning in your creative pursuits.
midlife creative awakening
You want to reclaim your creative identity alongside life’s other demands and harness the unique advantages of midlife creativity.
About me
Your Guide to Creative Flow
I’m Donna Bottomley – an accredited therapist (BABCP/NCPS), author, and musician who specialises in the intersection of wellbeing and creativity. I combine the arts with evidence-based therapeutic approaches and the new science of flow states to help midlife creatives rediscover their creative power.
Having navigated my own midlife creative transformation, I understand both the challenges and the immense potential of this life stage. My work is grounded in flow research while honouring the deeply personal nature of creative expression.
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My Courses
I find that expressive writing and Free Writing help me to access flow and manage the emotions of the week just gone. I’ve put together an in-depth course on how to use writing to offload, process and get in the zone.
Testimonials
What Clients say
Here are some snippets from the incredible people I have met on my journey.
“Thank you for giving me back my life”
“Donna was amazing!”
“I’m so glad you are doing this”
