
Let's be honest, staying devoted to your creativity and sustaining your creative life may feel impossible. Once you step into your creative vision, the real work begins!
Nobody can give you the blueprint, and how well you navigate depends on your ability to wield your creativity while:
Even with all the innovation, tech, and insights from seasoned creatives, your vision is still unattainable and unsustainable if you don't know how to embody enough consistent vibrant creativity to meet milestones and deadlines.
The biggest (and most common) mistake most creative entrepreneurs and professionals make is operating in "corporate mode". You can't use corporate success metrics, celebrate sacrificing yourself for income, or completely brush off your health and wellness. The more your mind and body hold stress, dysfunction, and dis-ease, the more you become creatively blocked, stagnant, and burnt-out.
You can't treat yourself like a piece of machinery when you're following your creativity, but you do have to understand your creative mechanics. You have to understand how to think, feel, and move like a Creative.
Understanding business is only part of being successful. Keeping your creativity vibrantly flowing through diabolical learning curves can take more true health and wellness than you probably ever anticipated. Understanding how to keep your creativity vibrant, flowing, and accessible is the other side of success.
Where wellness goes, creativity flows. For Creatives health is wealth most literally. It's time to build your creative capacity and let go of false securities that limit you and leave your creative expression for spare time and old age. When you have Creative Wellness, you're consistently embodied in high value creativity that bypasses the creative blocks, stagnation, and burnout keeping you thrown off.
Have the tools to ignite your creativity, navigate creative imbalance, and stay devoted to your vision. You can turn your creativity into value, revenue, and reward without sacrificing the very vitality that keeps you thriving in your craft!
Here's a quick introduction to the 4 holistic practices you can implement to cultivate Creative Wellness and activate vibrant creativity.
There's a reason the word "inspiration" also means to draw in breath! Use simple breathwork techniques that support your creative energy. Connect with your body while breathing to better recognize signs and signals of imbalance that can be linked to your blocked, burnt out, or disconnected creativity. Restore and support new and existing creative energy pathways through breathwork.
Use strengthening, stretching, and stabilizing movement techniques to restore, support, and enhance quality creative energy and capacity to accomplish goals & meet deadlines on a bold creative trajectory. Strengthen existing creative pathways, create new ones, and stretch into more fully embodying your most vibrant creativity with Movement.
Bridge the gap of creative disconnect by optimizing your daily nourishment! From what you take in, to everything around you, the nourishment of your mind and body is essential to high value creativity. Discover how to support your creativity through real nutrition, hydration, and a healthy environment, and why it is essential to maximizing creative potential and creative expression.
Discover the power therapeutic touch has on creativity! Activate deep healing mechanics in the body to release daily discomfort and dysregulation that interferes with fluid vibrant creative energy. Deeply harmonize the mind and body with a blend of massage, tapping, and clapping techniques to boost circulation, detoxification, and tension release to unlock creativity and receptivity.
I'm Lesley, and I love helping Creatives reconnect to their most vibrant "high value" Creativity and live their Creative Vision well!
I'm a lifelong Creative, Multi-passionate Entrepreneur, Massage Therapist, and Mom who took a vow at 12 to live a life of love, fulfillment, and creativity.
In 2005 I started my first business while in college, engaged, pregnant with my oldest daughter, and I knew the entrepreneurial life was for me. In 2007 I closed the business unsure of what to pivot towards, and I put my Creative Vision on hold to help with my family's medical practice.
2013 came in HOT and purged me from my corporate medical job completely discombobulated. I was divorced, overweight, unhealthy, depressed, angry, and felt completely disconnected from my most vibrant creativity for the first time. What was supposed to be a quick pause turned into a derailing half decade detour. Stepping back into my creative freedom felt like a monumental challenge.
Overwhelmed with my healing process, I was shocked as well-known creative moguls were having life changing health scares from the stress of running their businesses... like Arianna Huffington, founder of HuffPost, finding herself in a pool of blood with a broken cheek bone after collapsing from exhaustion.
I spent the next 10 years diving into holistic health and wellness, business, and decolonizing to better understand the connection between true wellness and thriving entrepreneurially. I experienced how simple practices like therapeutic touch, movement, breathwork, and proper nourishment powerfully repair the visceral panic, disorientation, and overwhelm that disrupts creativity and impacts the lives of passionate creatives. Applying what I learned, I unlocked tools to resolve creative blocks, stagnation, and burnout.
Creative Wellness is my solution. My creativity is available and vibrant under pressure, in the chaos, and through the challenges. I can alchemize my creativity into entrepreneurial momentum, create value for others, and live the life of love, fulfillment, and freedom I've dreamed of.
The good news is you don't have to spend a DECADE figuring it on your own! Are you ready to live your creative vision well? Start with the guidance you need for wherever you are on your journey.
How well do you know your Creativity?
Demystify your Creativity! Discover your Creative Type and the role of Creative Wellness. Understand the important nuances between the 3 types of creative imbalance: block, stagnation, and burnt out.
How did you get here? Learn the signs and cycles of your creative imbalance. Clarify the causes of each type of imbalance. Clarify the type of fuel you're using to ignite your Creativity. Clarify the solutions for each type of imbalance so you can rapidly feel relief!
How can you stay embodied in vibrant Creativity? Learn the 3 types of Creative Pathways. Discover the 8 daily ways to activate your vibrant Creativity. Learn our simple holistic framework to sustainably and pleasurably follow your Creative Vision!
- Lesley, Creative Wellness Guide + Founder
"Taking this class helped me realize that creativity isn’t just about inspiration, it’s understanding how my mind works. I’ve learned to work through blocks without frustration. My work feels more authentic, and I’m finally making progress on a project I’ve been struggling with."
– Jamelia
"This is incredible work you are offering! It's so needed!! Thank you for normalizing this. I definitely felt shame and confusion around the burnout of following my bliss, and yet all I'm missing is a way to proactively work with and recover from stress!"
- Fisher
"This class helped me see how burnout isn’t a sign of failure. The tools I learned have allowed me to approach my work with renewed passion. I’m creating more consistently and with more energy than ever before."
– Libby
"I thought I had lost my creative spark altogether, but this class helped me see that my creativity was always there. I just needed to nurture it differently. My productivity and sense of creative fulfillment have skyrocketed."
– Morgan
"I realize how completely unrealistic I've been to approach my creative work without wellness anywhere in sight. Having simple ways to recognize and prevent my usual creative blocks and burnout keeps reminding me it's not all in my head!"
- Athena
"I was constantly battling creative burnout and felt like I was spinning my wheels. This class gave me practical techniques to shift out of that. Understanding my burnout has helped me create with more ease and less pressure."
– Alex
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