Category: Mindset and Personal Growth
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Part 1 of 7: The Things I Made When Life Felt Like It Was Falling Apart
I was mindlessly scrolling through Pinterest last night when a photo stopped me cold. It was a dreamcatcher… one that I had made several years ago. Seeing it unexpectedly felt like opening a time capsule. Memories came rushing back all at once, pulling me into a season of my life I don’t often revisit –…
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I Don’t Know What I’m Doing—And I’m Doing It Anyway
Taking on this new venture has been harder than I expected. And I mean that honestly—no joke, I don’t have the slightest clue what I’m doing when it comes to building a website. At all. I ask ChatGPT a million questions a day, and even then I still get frustrated trying to figure out something…
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When a Project Forces You to Pivot
Today’s creative update isn’t shiny or finished or triumphant.It’s the kind of realization that settles in your chest and refuses to move. Sometimes projects don’t move forward.Sometimes they stop you cold and force you sideways. I had been making steady progress on this piece. Not fast progress, but the kind that feels earned. The kind…
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How Motherhood Shifted My Creative Path:My Journey to Starting Again
In my first two posts, I shared how fear, self-doubt, and perfectionism kept me stuck for years — and how I’m learning to honor and recognize my own form of creativity. But one question kept coming up as I wrote: Why now? Why finally begin after all this time? The answer, in large part, is…
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In Progress: The Gothic Headboard That Got Away From Me
I started this project last year, fully convinced I’d have it finished before my husband and I’s anniversary.It’s now January of the following year.And I am still not done. The plan was to redesign our bedroom with a romantic, gothic feel. We got married on Halloween dressed as vampires—an entire story for another time, which…
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Embracing My Own Version of Creativity: My Journey to Starting Again
How I realized creativity was always a part of my life — I just didn’t recognize it at the time. In my last post, I shared how fear, self-doubt, and perfectionism kept me stuck for years. I ended with a realization that I had always been creative — I just hadn’t allowed myself to see…
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Overcoming Creative Paralysis: My Journey to Starting Again
How I struggled with self-doubt, perfectionism, and feeling “not good enough” In my first post, I talked about choosing motion over paralysis. What I didn’t talk about yet is just how long I’ve been stuck in that paralysis. Ever since I was a kid, being “good” at art is what I thought I wanted. I…
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Here I Am Spiraling – and doing it Creatively.
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a long time. Contemplating what I should write, when I should write, whether it will be interesting, whether anyone will read it… whether it will suck. What if I fail?What if I succeed?And what does succeeding even look like? My mind spirals into a million questions and…