Creative coaching for writers, artists, and tenderhearted humans
who want more gentleness, more self-trust, and less masking.
Because your creative life is your real life
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Because your creative life is your real life 😻
Your creative instincts deserve your attention
Yet somewhere along the way, many of us are taught to ignore them.
Our time and energy get swept up in comparison culture, one-size-fits-all images of success, and benchmarks that place productivity over all else.We come to hold ourselves to other people’s standards at the expense of our own.
But your creative instincts are still in you, waiting to be surfaced. And with them: your intuition, needs, wants, and your unique quality of attention—that signature way in which only you can look at the world.
You might be here because creativity feels harder than it used to.
Maybe you sit down to write only to be pulled off course by doubt, pressure, or feelings of being an imposter.
Maybe you’re sick of “productivity hacks” that don’t account for your actual life and nervous system.
Maybe you’re neurodivergent or highly sensitive, and traditional creative advice has never fit your brain or heart.
And maybe what you want is for creativity to feel joyful and accessible again—energizing, sustainable, and alive.
Your creative practice can once again be something you’re in relationship with, not something you’re forcing into place.
There’s often more steadiness, even in uncertain seasons. More trust in your own pace. More clarity about what matters and what doesn’t.
Many people find they begin creating with less self-abandonment and more connection to their own voice, rhythms, and creative instincts.
Deep, ongoing support for writers and creative humans who want to build a more sustainable, trusting relationship with their work.
1:1 Creative Coaching
This is a space for slowing down and reconnecting with your creative voice. Together, we move through blocks, questions, and creative growth with thoughtful, personalized support that meets you where you are—not where you think you “should” be.
This work can support book manuscripts, newsletters, podcasts, workshops, poetry cycles, chapbooks, and other creative endeavors.
“Working with Sarah is like inviting Creativity to a loving family therapy session. For me, she has brought the breath of air when my embers are threatening to smolder out.
She does this through careful listening, presence and insightful questions. I believe that asking the right question at the right time is an art form, and Sarah is a goddamn wizard at it.”
– Kat Hosoo Lee, Spiritual Business Mentor
What’s your creative project?
Creative stuckness doesn’t always look like “writer’s block.” It can show up in many forms.
You might be trying to:
return to a practice you’ve drifted away from
finish or begin a book project
build consistency in your creative life
reconnect with inspiration after burnout
navigate creativity alongside a full, complex life
Wherever you are, we can begin there.
Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm a writer, poet, and trauma-informed creative mentor.
After years working in housing advocacy, youth services, and community mental health, I found myself returning again and again to one truth:
Creative work isn't separate from the rest of our lives.
It's woven through our identities, our nervous systems, our histories, our hopes, and the ways we imagine possible futures.
Today I work with writers, neurodivergent creatives, sensitive souls, and artists who want to build creative lives that honour who they actually are—not who they've been told they should become.
“As a creative coach, Sarah offers so much more than cheerleading, accountability, and frameworks for creative projects. She also has an uncanny ability to process my frustrated rants and philosophical musings into feedback that gives me more insight into my own needs than therapy ever did!
To call Sarah a creative coach is much too simplistic. She is part creative guru, part therapist, and a master at helping me tap into my own dormant creativity.
Sarah helped lead me back to loving and appreciating my creativity with her incredible patience and therapeutic support.”
– Christie
Your creativity is an ecosystem
When we focus only on discipline or productivity, we miss everything that helps creativity actually thrive. Together, we tend the whole ecosystem:
Practical support
Creating sustainable habits, rhythms, and creative practices.
Emotional support
Making space for doubt, fear, grief, joy, and everything creativity brings forward.
Relational support
Honoring intuition, curiosity, attention, and the deeper relationship you have with your work.
I write to stay in relationship with creativity
I’m a poet and essayist, and writing is the space where I think through attention, creativity, and inner life.
My work explores what it means to create in a world that is often fast, distracted, and overwhelming—especially for sensitive and neurodivergent creatives.
Through poetry and essays, I return again and again to questions of voice, presence, memory, and what it means to make meaning through art.
As featured in
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Rattle
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Ethel
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Write or Die Magazine
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Bottlecap Press
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The Wellness Center Creators Podcast
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Neon Door
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Porkbelly Press
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Hobart Pulp
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Porter House Review
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Sad Girl Diaries
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ASAP Journal
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The Feminist Wire
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Black Warrior Review
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Creative Mornings
A slower space for ongoing reflection
As a poet & essayist, I also publish For the Birds, a Substack newsletter (and community space) devoted to neurodivergence, creative practice, and the more-than-human world.
Signing up for my Substack is the best way to get a sense of my writerly interests, my style of thinking, and my overall vibe. It’s also where I write transparently about autism and late-in-life diagnosis.
