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3 Creative Exercises to Help You Feel Grounded and Energized
Need a quick way to feel more grounded? These three simple creative exercises—drawing your breath, turning words into affirmations, and playing with color—can help shift your mindset in minutes. Try one today and explore more in The Creative Shift!
Why It’s Never Too Late to Begin Creating Again
In Called to Be Creative, Mary Potter Kenyon shares stories of women who rediscovered their creativity during grief, burnout, or caregiving. With warmth and faith, she offers gentle prompts and reflections for those ready to begin again, slowly and meaningfully.
Doodling for Relaxation: 3 Simple Ways to Reset Your Mind
Feeling overwhelmed? These three simple drawing exercises can help you slow down, focus, and feel more grounded. Try pattern drawing, emotional doodling, or visualizing a place of comfort to reset your mind. Watch the videos & get more creative prompts in The Creative Shift!
Finding Peace in Everyday Life: Erin Niimi Longhurst’s Reflective Guide
In A Little Book of Japanese Contentments, Erin Niimi Longhurst offers a heartfelt reflection on traditions like ikigai, wabi-sabi, and kintsugi. Through personal story, simple rituals, and quiet wisdom, she invites us to slow down and savour what matters.
Scribble, Colour, Trace: 3 Stress-Relief Exercises That Work
Feeling overwhelmed? Creativity can help you reset in just minutes. Try tracing shapes, colouring your mood, or scribbling stress away—simple exercises that calm your mind and release tension. Want more mindful creativity tips? Watch the videos & subscribe to The Creative Shift!
How to Find Fulfilment Without Fixing Yourself
In Beyond Happy, Beth Cabrera offers a gentle, research-based guide to finding meaning, connection, and fulfilment—especially for high-achieving women. This isn’t about chasing happiness. It’s about living in alignment with what matters most.
What if the secret to less stress was more creativity?
Feeling drained and overwhelmed? Creativity can help reset your mind. At Mind Art Wellness, I share simple, no-pressure creative exercises—like doodling, painting, and journaling—to help you unwind and recharge. Even five minutes can lower stress. Join The Creative Shift for free weekly tips.
Gentle Strategies for Moving Through Burnout and Inertia
Adam Alter’s Anatomy of a Breakthrough is a research-informed, compassionate guide to navigating stuckness. Blending psychology, real-life stories, and reflective insights, this book helps readers move forward with clarity and care—one step at a time.
Stuck in a Creative Rut? This Book Offers Real Insight
Eric Maisel’s Fearless Creating is a psychologically rich guide to the emotional terrain of creative work. Instead of avoiding fear or doubt, Maisel teaches us how to meet them directly and keep going. A steady, honest companion for meaningful making.
Practical Art Therapy for Connection, Insight, and Growth
Susan I. Buchalter’s 250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques offers low-prep, high-impact art exercises for emotional exploration and connection. With clear prompts and adaptable ideas, it’s a go-to for groups, classrooms, or short sessions.
Forest Bathing as a Path to Healing and Mindfulness
M. Amos Clifford’s Your Guide to Forest Bathing invites readers to slow down, tune in, and build a relationship with the natural world. Part mindfulness, part reverence, this book is a gentle guide to healing and reconnection through sensory presence in nature.
A Creative Path to Intuition and Abundance
In The Art of Healing and Manifesting, Leah Guzman blends art therapy, chakras, and manifestation into a soulful journey of emotional healing and personal clarity. With gentle prompts and vibrant exercises, she guides readers toward intuition, balance, and creative power.
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.