Tag: Creative Identity
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Letting Creativity Lead: Chaos, Care, and Creating Anyway
“Creativity can hold both loss and joy at the same time, and continuing to create can be an act of love all its own.” Meet Chelsea Pellegrino Full-time working mom of two, a natural leader, and a creative spirit who finds expression in both big moments and quiet, everyday ways. Whether she’s crafting seasonal décor,…
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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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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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Letting the Light Shine: A Conversation on Art, Time and Starting Anyway
“Everyone of us has a hidden talent and the sooner you see that the sooner you need to let your light shine.” – Sonja Horling Meet Sonja Horling An artist, a mother, a lifelong maker and doer.Curious by nature, Sonja works across many mediums. Recently, after a major life shift, she has returned to a…
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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…