Reflections on creativity, flow, therapeutic audio, and building a creative business.
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To open outward is to be met
What gaze direction is teaching me about expansion, awe, and feeling less alone Over the past month I have been paying more attention to where I look. Not to focus on what I am looking at but to notice the direction I am looking towards. I’m noticing the way each orientation of my gaze (down,…
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When Nothing Comes Back: Grief, Disconnection and the Space Between Us
I have been thinking about loss and absence recently. Mainly through the lens of the space between us and what we lose during grief. That feeling of disconnection. I feel like we are invisibly tethered to those we love and share space with. When they are gone, that space feels different. We had some tree…
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Feeling lost: the fog before clarity
Happy Monday, I hope this finds you well as you ease into a new week. It was quite foggy here on the school run this morning and this got me thinking about feeling lost before the fog lifts and clarity appears. This can be quite an unsettling feeling. The brain wants certainty, so when you…
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Creating Space by Letting Go: An Autumn Reflection on Flow
Autumn and letting go Hello and happy Monday, How was your week? I hope you managed to find some moments of creative flow, even if they were small ones. I’ve been thinking a lot about autumn this past week. Everyone talks about it being a time of letting go, and it is. But I have…
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Mid-Year Creative Reflection: Where Are You Now?
Happy Sunday! As it is the start of the 6th month of 2025 I thought it would be good to process the year so far and have a check-in, a sort of creative reflection. In January, what did you hope this year would bring for you? In February, what were you actively working on? In…
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Flow in Writing: Why Frustration Is Part of the Process
Happy Sunday! Here’s what you need to know about achieving flow in writing, including why that frustration you feel is actually a sign you’re on the right path (it’s called the struggle phase). I have noticed on more than one occasion that half way through a free-write, if I push through the part where it…
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Group Flow: The power of creating in community
Let’s flow together, in group flow Happy Sunday! I hope that you have had a fulfilling week. We are somehow still in a dry season here in Wales. It is quite strange to have such extended warm weather, with barely any rain. It feels like we went straight from winter to summer here, I am…
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Flow Blockers
What are flow blockers and how do they get in the way of our creative goals? Happy Sunday! Last week, we explored the powerful concept of flow triggers. These are the conditions that help to guide us more smoothly into states of complete absorption and heightened creativity. Today, I want to take a look at…
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Discover your flow triggers
How to access creative flow more reliably Happy Sunday, Have you ever been so absorbed in an activity that time seemed to disappear? Perhaps you were playing music, writing, painting, or even cooking; completely immersed in the moment, feeling both challenged and capable. That magical state is what psychologists call “flow,” and today I want…
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Returning to creative flow: How 15 Minutes can reconnect you
Happy Sunday! Today is the first session of our ‘Fifteen Minutes of Flow’ Sessions. Fifteen minutes of flow is about using creative flow principles to get back into a creative activity that you have been wanting to do for a while but keep putting off. Creative Flow Do you have an activity that you used…
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The Weekly Process: No.2
In this week’s Weekly Process post, I am thinking about Sunday night anxiety and why worry is something that can happen when we are trying to get to sleep on Sunday night (or whichever night is the night before you go back to work after a break). With Blue Monday coming up, it might be…
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The Weekly Process – No.1
This is the first of The Weekly Process newsletters, and, as our memory is very good at remembering the first and last items of any ‘chunk’ of information, I feel a pressure to write the right thing here! “Welcome to my first post!” seems a bit of a waste of words really though, so I…