Begin Here
I crafted these three worksheets as a gentle beginning - the tools that help me recalibrate, reflect, and return to myself.
The Hero’s Journey:
A Creative Self Inquiry
This is the framework that helped me make sense of my own unraveling. An invitation to see your life as a story - not a mistake.
The Creative Ritual Blueprint:
Reframing the Space Where You Create
The blueprint I created when I realized creativity doesn’t thrive in chaos - it thrives in containment.
The Creative Nervous System Reset:
A 10-Minute Ritual Before You Enter the Work
A grounding practice I return to when my nervous system needs reassurance before creating.
There are two books that have lived in my creative toolbox for almost two decades. I don’t just read them. I return to them. I underline them. I argue with them. I cry in the margins. They shaped the way I understand creativity - not as performance, but as devotion.
These are the roots:
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Artist’s Way was gifted to me by my father in 2007. I was young. Restless . Already aching to create but unsure how to protect it. That book didn’t just introduce me to Morning Pages or Artist Dates… it introduced me to the idea that creativity is a spiritual practice.
I have read it and reread it. Highlighted it. Written in its margins. Carried it through seasons of burnout, side quests, reinvention, and return.
It changed my life. And it continues to.
Podcast episodes featuring Julia Cameron
“Follow your curiosity. It is the thread that leads you home.”
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Magic altered my brain chemistry.
It reframed creativity not as something we control - but something we collaborate with.
Elizabeth Gilbert gave language to something I had always felt but couldn’t articulate - that ideas are alive. That creativity has its own current. That fear doesn’t get to drive the car. This book loosened something in me. It made my relationship to creativity lighter. Playful. Brave.
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
These books are not rules.
They are companions.
I don’t worship them - but I respect what they unlocked in me.
If you’re stepping into your own creative recalibration, they are a beautiful place to begin.