Unlock Your Creativity
A trauma-informed group coaching program for neurodivergent people who want to get unstuck and align with their creative flow
You’re in the right place if:
✓ You have a burning desire to express your creativity artistically, but you get in your own way.
✓ You get overwhelmed with all the ideas swirling in your head.
✓ You get discouraged easily and never finish projects.
✓ Your inner critic gets the best of you before you even start creating.
Does this also sound like you?
Feeling deeply connected to your creative flow would mean the world to you. It’s about more than realizing the visions in your head - it’s about being soulfully connected to yourself and the world around you, because creativity for you is so interwoven with who you are as a person, and how you experience the world
Self-doubt, perfectionism, and judgment often get in the way of your creativity, but you can imagine, even for a moment, the freedom or ease that could come if only you could tap into your artistic expression. That spark inside of you would have a channel to express itself through.
You’re tired of fighting yourself, and not acting on those ideas you receive from your intuition while you’re meditating, out in nature, or in those quiet moments washing the dishes or in the shower. Those ideas are begging to be put out there in the world, and each day that passes in which you take no action only adds a layer of disappointment
You’re a highly sensitive person, and you take criticism hard. It feels like there’s an accumulation of traumas that, although you may have worked on already, hold you back from authentically expressing yourself. You may have c-ptsd or suffered a traumatic childhood. Being able to tap into your creativity feels like the next big logical step in your healing process, and you fantasize about putting your work out there for the world to see (even if it feels scary).
You have an intuitive sense that stifling your creativity is part of the reason you experience symptoms of depression and anxiety - it’s like your body knows that suppressing your creativity isn’t right. You might tend toward feeling deflated and exhausted, or like you have an excess of energy you don’t know what to do with.
About Me
Creativity was something I had infinite access to as a kid. Like many young children, I was naturally artistic, and would create entire worlds with my pencil crayons. Somewhere along the way, I stifled it. I had internalized stories of not good enough, had accumulated traumas I hadn’t worked through, and told myself it wasn’t that important. It was only after working through a lot of my own stuff that I began to feel immense grief for ever shoving down my creativity. Through the grief, I knew that the next logical step was reclaiming my creativity. I was tired of feeling half alive.
At a breaking point, when the life I had worked so hard to build was crumbling, and I could no longer cling to the vestiges of the past, I had a strong creative impulse. It seemed trivial at first, but the drive was instinctive, almost like the need to eat.
Heading to the art store like my life depended on it, I bought two brushes, three tubes of acrylic paint in off white, tan brown and black, equipped to repaint my wooden giraffe. My pappa had carved it after he got back from WW2.
I noticed the giraffe’s painted patches and facial features had gotten a little smudgy over time, and so I got to work, carefully painting over the same lines my pappa had painted decades prior.
What I didn’t realize at the time, was that very simple act of picking up a paintbrush for the first time since adolescence opened the door to reclaiming my creativity, and by extension, reclaiming myself.
When we unearth the creativity that has been lying dormant for years, or decades, we are connecting with that child-like curiosity that makes us feel alive and inspired again. I truly believe that humans are meant to create - that this is an intrinsic need that we all have, and it’s a joy to support others find their way back to their creativity, and themselves.
As highly sensitive people with a history of trauma, there’s a need for a specific kind of support and process towards reclaiming creativity.
Reclaiming your creativity is about reclaiming yourself
This is exactly why I am offering a trauma-informed approach in a weekly group setting that will not only get you creating again, but will provide the roadmap, psychoeducation and therapeutic tools to help you unblock yourself for life.
Approach
TRAUMA-INFORMED
I use the same approached in this program that I use with clients looking to heal trauma. Even if you do not recall trauma related to your creativity, since creativity is so connected to our life force, it gets impacted by other forms of trauma.
I work at the pace of your nervous system. I think it’s vital to learn about our nervous systems in order to recover our creativity.
At the same time, reclaiming creativity is such a healing process - it is about retrieving that deep, inner essence that perhaps had to get suppressed in order for you to survive. Reclaiming it is about reclaiming you - your truth, your essence, and your magic
PARTS WORK
When perfectionism, self-doubt, fear of being seen and judgment get in the way of your intuitive creative force, it can be frustrating and disheartening, and make you give up altogether.
I don’t view these parts of us as that can block us as ‘bad.’ Rather, they become points of inquiry - parts that we invite in and get to know. In doing so, when perfectionism shows up, we don’t try and get rid of it, we learn to mindfully notice the story of perfectionism as a part of us, rather than all of us.
Once you learn this, the self-doubt, perfectionism, and fear still might be there, but you will have a different relationship with them - they won’t hold you back like they did before. They won’t stop you from creating.
SOMATIC
I draw upon a body-based or somatic way of working, to help you connect with your intuition, learn your full creative YESSES, and take action from an embodied place.
By learning how to drop down from your head to your heart, your art will speak from that deep soul level place, and you’ll be less scared of making mistakes, being seen, or not being good enough.
This also allows us to ground in our bodies, rather than get stuck in our heads. You may have noticed that you’re most creative not necessarily when you’re up in your head, but when you feel safe in your body.
give me the deets
Everything you need to know…
what you’ll get:
✓ 6 live weekly group coaching sessions where you will get individual, hot seat coaching with me every time. (group max of 7 participants)
✓Sessions are recorded in case you miss anything or want to refer back.
✓ In-between session support on an online platform where I provide feedback and answer questions 24/5 - I response within 36 hours but often much sooner.
FAQs
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I always invite potential clients to check in with their intuition. When I’m unsure about an investment in myself, I try to get out of my head and check in with what is happening on a deeper level. Do I feel resonance? Am I moved by the coach’s words? How do I feel during the consultation? Am I feeling attuned and understood - does it feel like they get me? In my view, these are the most important questions to ask. If I feel a yes to all of these, I can tell it’s in alignment with my truth.
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No problem! They will be recorded and available to refer back to if you miss anything.
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That’s exactly who I have designed this program for - folks who have worked on their trauma, and are feeling ready to reclaim their creativity. Oftentimes some trauma work has to happen before we can regain access to the life force that is our creativity.
That being so, the triggers can sometimes be pretty big when we want to expand and grow in new ways, as is the case with creating. Experiencing blocks and stuckness is welcome and very much a part of the process.
That’s why I’ve set it up from a trauma-informed way so that you get the action-based coaching at the pace that your nervous system is at, along with psychoeducation and therapeutic tools.
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This program is more about breaking long-standing patterns (sometimes decades long!) to get you creating again in a way that feels joyful and in alignment. While I don’t get into marketing strategy or how to make a business out of your art, this program is a great start in that direction.
Similar blocks come up in business, so whether you just want to create for your own sake, or want to make revenue, it’s important that you enjoy what you are making, and know how to ride the ebbs and flows of living a creative life with ease.
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I understand. These aren’t easy times and creativity is not given overarching priority in our society. I have a bit of a different view - I think that connecting with your creativity is very practical.
My view of creativity is that it’s our soul’s voice expressed in sounds, songs, images, colors, textures, words, and movement. I also feel that there is an innate drive in most of us to connect with that voice. While we are living in trying times, connecting with creativity opens up a channel that, in my view, makes us more alive. When we’re more alive in our day to day lives, we’re more present, and to me, that’s kind of the whole point - to be present in our aliveness.