Creativity is art-making, sure. But I define it more widely, as our capacity to listen to the life force within us. Sometimes this life force leads us to start experimenting with the watercolors long-forgotten on our desk. Sometimes it calls us toward activism because our heart hurts and we can no longer stay immobile. Sometimes, creative life force simply is the quiet impulse to finally get out of bed after a long season of depression.

Often times, our capacity to respond to our life force is blocked because of personal, familial, or systemic trauma. Sometimes it’s blocked because we were socialized or taught to not listen to ourselves to begin with, or that we were not worth knowing deeply. Sometimes it’s blocked because we simply just don’t have an imagination yet for what could happen if things started flowing more freely.

A creative block is an entry point into deep work around your origin story, your beliefs about yourself, and how you relate to your own inner voice. A block can be an issue of life force, a crisis of faith, or even a trauma response. By diving into the places where we feel creatively blocked—whether that’s within a specific project that’s wanting to be birthed or in the more encompassing vision of a life that speaks more to our Soul’s calling—we can encounter both grief and desire. Imagine receiving support from someone that can hold your experience with the depth, tenderness, and expertise of a therapist, while also understanding that some transformations can only happen through the down-in-the-dirt presence of creative practice. That’s where I come in, and I’d love to work with you.