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Gentle Creativity for Busy Lives: Collage Your Life Review
Collage Your Life by Melanie Mowinski is a colourful, reflective guide to creative reconnection. Through simple materials and thoughtful prompts, Mowinski invites readers to explore collage as a mindful, expressive practice grounded in everyday life.
Healing Through Symbol: A Jungian Art Therapy Review
Jungian Art Therapy by Nora Swan-Foster is a rich, reflective guide to using art and symbolism as tools for emotional healing. Grounded in Jungian theory, it explores how images, dreams, and the creative process help us understand the deeper self.
What It Really Means to Find Your Voice in Art
Lisa Congdon’s Find Your Artistic Voice is a warm, practical guide for artists who feel stuck or uncertain. With real stories, gentle insights, and a focus on authenticity, it encourages creative clarity without pressure or perfectionism.
Reconnecting with Yourself Through Visual Journaling
Rakefet Hadar’s Layers of Meaning offers a gentle, intuitive guide to visual journaling as a way to explore emotions, release inner blocks, and reconnect with creative self-expression—especially for women navigating stress, burnout, or transition.
Burnout Support for Purpose-Driven Women in Business
Kasia Richter’s Burnout Recovery Guide for Female Entrepreneurs is a steady, compassionate book that helps women reclaim energy without abandoning ambition. Ideal for women navigating burnout while running a business and craving sustainable change.
Creativity as Presence: Lessons from Imagination in Action
Shaun McNiff’s Imagination in Action is a reflective guide to the creative process rooted in movement, presence, and compassionate observation. Perfect for artists, facilitators, and reflective creatives seeking depth and freedom in their practice.
How to Be Productive Without Burnout: Lessons from Feel-Good Productivity
Ali Abdaal’s Feel-Good Productivity offers a science-backed, compassionate guide to getting things done by feeling better—not working harder. Rooted in psychology and real-life experience, it’s a must-read for anyone rethinking what success looks like.
Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Insights from Unleashing the Artist Within
Eric Maisel’s Unleashing the Artist Within offers grounded, compassionate insight for creatives navigating resistance, meaning loss, and anxiety. Ideal for mid-career artists seeking clarity and commitment, it’s a wise guide to the emotional side of artmaking.
What The Art of Aliveness Teaches About Meaningful Living
Flora Bowley’s The Art of Aliveness is a gentle, soulful guide to living creatively every day. Blending story, reflection, and artful wisdom, she invites us to show up fully—on the canvas and in life—with curiosity, courage, and presence.
Austin Kleon on Creative Visibility and Sharing
In Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon offers a warm, practical guide for creatives who want to share their work without losing themselves. With ten simple principles, he invites you to build connection, share your process, and create with generosity.
A Grounded Guide to Mindful Art Therapy Practice
In Mindful Art Therapy, Barbara Jean Davis offers clinicians a grounded, compassionate approach to integrating mindfulness and creative expression. With clear theory, case studies, and practical insights, this book is a valuable guide for therapeutic work.
Why Jerry Saltz Says You Don’t Need Permission to Make Art
In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz delivers 63 punchy, irreverent rules to help creatives push past fear, perfectionism, and inertia. A funny, encouraging, and deeply honest guide for artists who need a reminder to just begin—and keep going.
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.