A map for multi-passionate, sensitive creative wanderers Hello Reader, Would you like to hear how watching Lord Of The Rings helped me to think about the challenges and pathways that multi-passionate, sensitive creatives navigate? Well then dear reader, don your woollen cape, grab your gnarled walking stick and let's set off. Hobbity Gif from here 'All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the...
over 1 year ago • 6 min read
Multi-passionate creativity, a new downloadable freebie and pickle costumes... Hello Reader! The last few weeks I've been doing a deep research dive into theories of multi-passionate creativity in preparation for our upcoming Sensitive Creatives Meetup on the topic this Tuesday. What's really shone out to me in this process is how important passion is for creative people. As a creativity coach I support both specialists who focus on one specific form of creative practice, and...
over 1 year ago • 5 min read
A special opportunity to work with me 1:1 for less then half the price Hello Reader! I wanted to let you know about a special opportunity to take one of my creativity coaching programmes for a reeeaaaally amazing price. I’m currently undertaking some additional training as a creativity coach, simply because I love to learn and I would like to be the very best creativity coach I can be! I’m looking for three wonderful people to work with me as clients while I do this work. We would work...
almost 2 years ago • 2 min read
Hello there Reader! The summer I was allowed to play outside my house, I discovered two things. The first was that I quickly realised roller blading up and down my street on my own wasn't actually that exciting. It didn't take long to move through the thrill of independently being out in the world, the nervous buzz formed by moving aside for the occasional car soon fading and revealing that skating from number one to number 132 was quite repetitive. I also learned that at the end of my street...
almost 2 years ago • 6 min read
‘This all sounds wonderful, we’d love to work with you on this project!’ she beamed at me. ‘Oh that’s amazing, thank you so much for the opportunity. I’m really excited!’ I enthused back. ‘So, we’ll be in touch in the next few days with all the details and your contract…oh and just to check, some of the venues are a bit tricky to get to, so you do have access to a car…?’ My heart sank. My smile froze. Ah. Crap. ‘Yep.’ I replied, pausing for just a fraction too long. ‘Yes, well…my partner and...
almost 2 years ago • 7 min read
HSP friendly systems: How do we organise our time (and ourselves) in ways that work for us? Hello Reader! I'm nearly 38 years old, and I'm still working on earning my Organising Badge. Hey Duggee 'The Organising Badge'. Link. And it has been a journey of many different approaches. I've tried multiple tidying systems, schedules, wall calendars and I have a pile of specialist planners that I never used past March. The truth is, while I don't want to live in complete and total choas (I have...
almost 2 years ago • 3 min read
✨ Why I think websites can be magic for HSP creatives ✨ (And hopefully this will help you think about how you could better use your website even if you don't book on to the workshop tomorrow!) Hello there lovely Reader! Past Ellie never thought I'd be running a workshop about using your website. Honestly, for years I bloody hated everything about my website 😅 I hated building it - it made my head hurt and made me feel stupid. I hated paying for it - it was expensive and therefore a source of...
about 2 years ago • 4 min read
All the things I have made for you in March & how to stop dreading marketing as an HSP creative Howdy lovely Reader! Hook me up to a lie detector and ask me if I enjoy marketing my creative work, and I’ll be exposed for all my inherent confusions and contradictions. 🤥 I’ll say I hate it, but the readings on the machine will become utterly confused, oscillating wildly between LIE and TRUTH. Why? Because marketing (according to most basic of dictionary searches) is ‘the activity or business of...
about 2 years ago • 6 min read
Let's give ourselves the permission to make what really matters to us! Hello lovely creatives, Oh do I have some plans coming up in the months ahead. Workshops, online classes and free events... I'm very excited of course and I hope you will be too. The first of these is the next Sensitive Creatives Meetup on Monday 13th February, free, 7pm - 8pm GMT These are usually on the second Tuesday of the month but I don't want to compete with Valentine's Day (and no I don't have plans because it's...
about 2 years ago • 1 min read