Healing Burnout with Simple Creative Acts

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

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

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

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

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

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.


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.