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Healing Burnout with Simple Creative Acts
Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse. For women in STEM, it often comes quietly. In this interview, I share how burnout shaped my journey, how creative practices helped me recover, and how rest and presence are the keys to lasting wellness.
From Burnout to Balance: Healing and Reinventing Your STEM Career
After years in science, regulation, and crisis response, I hit burnout. In this interview, I share how small creative practices helped me heal, how I now support women in STEM, and why burnout is a turning point—not an ending.
Burnout Recovery Through Creativity and Storytelling
After burnout in STEM left me depleted, I turned to small creative acts to find my way back. In this interview and reflection, I share how presence, equity, and simple practices can help women in STEM reconnect with joy and wellness.
What a Wolf Taught Me About Creativity and Burnout
A close encounter with a wild wolf reminded me why creativity matters—especially during burnout. In this story-rich reflection, I share how presence, texture, music, and small daily rituals can help reignite calm, connection, and creative wellness.
What Networking and Creative Wellness Have in Common
After years in STEM, I felt burned out—but the answer wasn’t quitting. It was reconnecting with creativity. Learn how small art-based practices helped me reset, and why adding creative wellness made my science career feel whole again.
Creative Support for Sensitive Women in High-Stress Roles
If you're a sensitive high-achiever in STEM, creativity can offer more than calm. It can help you reset. Learn how simple practices like the Word Mandala create space to reflect, release pressure, and reconnect with yourself without needing to explain.
Reclaim Your Calm with the Inside / Outside Exercise
Feeling like you are not enough? The Inside / Outside drawing exercise helps you reconnect with what is real—beneath comparison, beyond performance. A quiet, creative way to feel more grounded and whole.
How the Tree of Life Drawing Helped Clarify One Woman’s Goals
Marie felt disconnected in her new leadership role. Instead of pushing for answers, we explored her story through a Tree of Life drawing. What emerged was clarity, confidence, and a gentle reminder of who she had always been.
How to Draw a Symbolic Family Portrait for Clarity and Calm
When parenting feels hard and connection is strained, this simple drawing practice offers space to reflect. Learn how to create a symbolic family portrait that helps you process emotion and find calm through quiet creativity.
Drawing Boundaries: How One Coaching Tool Helped a New Leader Find Her Way
When Nadia stepped into leadership, she quickly felt overwhelmed. A coaching session using the Traffic Light tool helped her draw clear boundaries, reconnect with her strengths, and reset her approach to leading. Learn how visual tools can support clarity.
Loosen the Grip of Perfectionism with This Creative Reset
Caught in a loop of overthinking and perfectionism? This simple creative exercise invites you to play, make a mess, and release control. Discover how a little imperfection can quiet your mind and offer surprising emotional relief.
How High-Achieving Women Can Track Effort vs Value
If you're ending your week exhausted but unsure what you accomplished, you're not alone. This blog shares Carris’s coaching session using the Value–Effort Glasses—a simple drawing tool that reveals where your energy goes and what truly makes a difference.
I acknowledge and thank the W̱SÁNEĆ people on whose traditional and unceded territory I live, learn, and teach. The W̱SÁNEĆ people have lived and worked on this land since time immemorial.