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Creative Practice
Welcome to the Haven Library Creative Practice Archive
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Creativity is an ideal way to explore who we are, process life's happenings, and express ourselves in meaningful ways. Here are some articles, discussions, and resources (including prompts) to help you start, maintain, or pivot your creative practice. Whether or not you consider yourself a creative person, I hope you will find support, encouragement, and inspiration to bring your innate creative spirit out to play.
The Deeper Benefits of Slowing Down
It isn’t easy to keep up with the pace of life. It can feel like time is running away, and there’s always more to do…
Finding Belonging Through Our Ordinary Weirdness
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, and troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” – Jacob…
Finding Space For Deep Processing In a Shallow World
Deep processing is a core aspect of high sensitivity. But processing is an important thing for all of us to do. And it’s not easy…
What Can You Do If You Feel Like You’re Drifting Through Life?
Sometimes drift comes through the endless pursuit of goals we hope will make us happy. Or it might come as we passively float along the…
Fear of Success – Why Desired Change Can Be Hard To Implement
Perfectionism and a fear of failure can hold us back from doing what matters to us. But what about fear of success? In this episode…
Is The Pressure To Perform, Killing Your Creative Core?
This is a guest post by Elena Thomas. After a recent conversation, I invited Elena to share her experiences as an artist and songwriter dealing…
Is an Energy Vampire Draining Your Creative Spirit?
The energy vampire is an internal passenger. We all have a version of one inside us. This little character had a pretty big role when…
Create Margin For Inspiration
I don’t know about you but sometimes I push myself to the limit and something that would normally inspire me feels like an overwhelming noise.…
Find Glimmers Using Your Inspiratory System
The idea of the inspiratory system reminds us that inspiration is a lot like breath. The word “inspiration” comes from the same place as respiration…
Building Habits by Starting Slow and Small
There is a huge amount about the topic of habits and I don’t want to regurgitate what is already out there. So in this week’s…