Hi Reader, Between today's Full Moon in Leo and deep creative inspiration from Kendrick's absolutely iconic Super Bowl performance, I am taking the metaphoric mic for a moment 🎤. It's story time - and this one's about ancestry, legacy, creative rebellion and liberation. (If you want to skip ahead, you can read more about The Everyday Artist Community here). A few months ago, around Día de Muertos, I started to feel an intense curiosity to dive deeper into my ancestry, specifically around my...
25 days ago • 6 min read
This is a 2 part newsletter with part 2 being sent today. Hi Reader, Before diving in, I just way to note that.........things feel very.......strange right now. Like we are suspended in the air or missing a puzzle piece or waiting for the other shoe to drop. It's a bit.......eerie. If you feel this, just know you are not alone. I feel it and many people I talk to also feel it so I just wanted to name it. Anyways, continuing on to this week's writing. If you read last week’s newsletter then...
4 months ago • 7 min read
This is a 2 part newsletter with part 1 being sent today. Hi Reader, How you holding up? How is your nervous system post election? It's been a pretty crazy last week or so to say the absolute least. But I have to be honest........in the days leading up to, during and after the election I found myself mostly regulated, discerning and intentional with my information consumption, energy, actions and people I was surrounded by. That regulated part might surprise you given what we were all...
4 months ago • 6 min read
Hi Reader, The tension and anxiety around the US election is……palpable. Which is one of the reasons I am launching The Everyday Artist: 11 Day Creativity Challenge. Tomorrow, 11/1, is the start of this free challenge and today is the last day to register. As a part of this experience together, we’ll be incorporating emotional regulation tools such as EFT Tapping to support us in transmuting any distress we may be feeling around the US election as well as moving through creative blocks,...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Last week I was attending a film festival where two of my friends had films being screened. I ended up speaking with some of the other artists and was inspired by their stories and the art they’d created. I think part of what inspired me the most was the fact that for a lot of them, including my friends, it was their first film. Here they were, no one famous (yet!), fully believing and betting on themselves and their creativity and putting it out into the world - waiting for no one...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, As I watch the chaos around the US election continue to intensify and dysregulate, I keep coming back to a post I made on Instagram a few weeks ago about the power behind nurturing our creativity (and if you’re interested in a free offering I have coming up around nurturing your creativity and creative confidence, keep reading). Lately when the world has felt like too much and I am weary, I go create something. When I feel like I am overwhelmed, uninspired, stuck or waiting for...
4 months ago • 2 min read
*estimated read time: 3 minutes* Hi Reader, Today is National Coming Out Day and I’d like to shed some light on my own coming out story. I don’t usually talk about this part of my life because it’s extremely personal but I felt the need to share this not for the approval of others but really as a marker in my own journey of evolution. Creativity and sexuality, both rooted in the same chakra (2nd), are two sides of the same coin and I am very clear that my expansiveness in one has directly led...
5 months ago • 4 min read
*estimated read time: 4 minutes* Hi Reader, Let me preface this by saying that while I believe we all have the capacity and ability to heal many of our wounds past and present, including around money, we also live within a capitalist, ableist patriarchal system which we are all deeply and perpetually traumatized from…….so “healing” doesn’t just fall on the shoulders of individuals. It’s not just an individual responsibility - It’s also systemic and collective. Anyways, if you read my last...
5 months ago • 3 min read
*estimated read time: 3 minutes* Hi Reader, I was talking with a friend today who was describing a tricky situation to me that she’s in with a client. My friend is absolutely brilliant and honestly, the client is treating her like s**t. And I’m not just saying that as her friend, they’re like actually really shitty. They’re trying to gaslight and manipulate her and she’s ready to call it quits despite having consulted with them for awhile. And she has every right to. Her body has been giving...
5 months ago • 4 min read