I have been in business for myself for cumulatively 9 years. In the past 2 years, I shifted my business into focusing on only my coaching and art, instead of archiving and artist assistant work. Often, what I hear from others who are starting out their solo business is the question of how do I make a[…]
Overcoming Obligation Overwhelm
As a creative entrepreneur, you pulse between being obliged by outside forces and being obliged by what you set yourself up to do. For instance, in running my own business sometimes I get cold requests from this site for either being a mentor or doing a custom piece of art. This is an example of[…]
I’ve done it again
Tomorrow night I am displaying my art + giving a talk about my creative process. Often, I get to this point in my art making that I don’t know if anything I create is good anymore. As I prepare for my night of exhibition, I see that my feelings are magnified by the vulnerability of showing[…]
Patience is a Virtue
But certainly isn’t mine as of late… Let me clarify and say, patience with myself is not my greatest strength: I admit this, I see it, I own it. But, patience with others, now that’s my jam. I can peacefully sit vigil for 36 hours without sleep while a woman becomes a mother giving birth. I know[…]
Are you in Creative Incubation or Creative Crisis mode?
A few days ago, I came to this conclusion: When you let go, and let your dreams come to you in the way they fit for YOUR life (not in someone else’s life or how you perceive them to be in others lives) things click together. They just do. The aspect of yourself that you[…]
Am I real if I am not making money?
Overall, I can say that the answer to the question “Am I real if I am not making money?” is YES. But, about 2 years ago I decided to peel away the layers of myself. Shortly after I got married, I decided to deeply look at what I wanted to be doing with my work life. My husband[…]
Hitching Happiness to a Happening
I had a revelation this morning. I, like many of us, wait for my expectations to occur in order to then become happy. Ohhh, this is so challenging to admit to you, because I teach VERY topic of expectations and being rid of they to almost all of my clients. (truth: I never ever claim[…]
When you miss the opportunity of a lifetime
Or perhaps you did not… Words have an incredible power over the utter and ultimate creative course of our life. We create our experience, meaning and story through word. Lately, I have liberally been saying the word no to the things that don’t feel right for my life and for my business. In the moment,[…]
Avoiding joy looks a lot like a laundry basket
I’ve been avoiding the room in my house that brings me my most joy. I’ve been actively avoiding my studio room, the heart of my creative expression, my own sacred space. I realized this today on a nice late Winter afternoon walk with my husband. Usually, on these walks he and I process much of[…]
Confession: I was addicted to being busy
I was leaving my dance class this morning, and my dear friend asked me what I was up to today. I held up my hand in an 0 shape to signify nothing. I have no plans, I told her. I immediately got in my car and thought about how I should have come up with[…]
