“If you’ve been on the hunt for ways to make creativity feel more possible, shifts in language—in how you talk about and frame your creative practices—can open a surprising door.”

“When we commemorate, we aren’t capturing our accomplishments and putting them behind glass; we’re relating to our own capabilities. We’re gathering ourselves together in a kind of kinship, acknowledging: yes, this happened, and I did good work, and that matters to me.”

“As writers, our loyalty is not to the question, ‘how did it really happen,’ which can limit and bind our storytelling.

Instead we must ask: How did it feel? What did it change in me? What echoes did it leave behind?”

“For a long time, I struggled to describe what I do—especially in the context of small talk, where nuance gets flattened. But if you asked me right now what I do, I’d simply say: I help people with their creativity.”

“Making is a form of participating in the world. It’s a way of being in relationship with what’s here, and what’s possible.”

“Your creativity serves as a daily anchor, bringing clarity, confidence, and deeper connections with the world. This isn’t a rare occurrence, nor one reserved for weekends or vacations, but the way you experience your normal self.”

“No matter the circumstances, I promise you: You are not difficult or broken or bad at being creative. You might just be a fern in need of some shade.”

“When you think, sense, use language, or process meaning differently than others, it’s easy to forget that your ways are objectively as valuable as the more normative ones.”

“The more my self-belief depends on an external, inflexible circumstance, the more anxiously I remain attached to it.”

“A healthy relationship to publishing and sharing our creative work doesn’t get to define our creative work entirely.”

“You are allowed to trade your economic frameworks for environmental ones."

“Sometimes, taking care of yourself is remembering that you can be creative in order to feel more like yourself, rather than waiting to feel more like yourself in order to be creative.”

“There is so much creativity that takes place outside the physical act of making. And it’s the work of those quiet, private moments that so often leads to the big, visible revelations and breakthroughs.”

“It is in direct relationship where you will build your most reliable self-trust, where things that are hard to believe will slowly start to feel less pretend and more apparent.”