How to make time for creativity

Since we became homo sapiens, we’ve been making our creative mark on the world: in handprints, markings in the caves we lived in, washes of colour on cave walls, early illustrations of stories we were telling ourselves and each other. I’ve said it for years and years:...

Light + Turning: a solstice circle

If you’d like to read about my upcoming solstice circle, then click here.  For the longest time, our family has honoured the Solstice. Whether that’s the winter solstice, the dark creeping in near 4pm, the light escaping behind the trees, winking as it disappears; or...

Who gives you permission?

I’ve been thinking and writing about permission lately. Who gives us permission to write, or create, and why do we seek permission from outside of us in the first place?  And it all, yet again, comes down to patriarchy, capitalism and the messages we internalise...

Write, regardless.

The struggle to write your book while the world feels like it’s spinning out of control is real. How can you take time to get your writing done, your book finished, your published book out there with your name on it when everything’s on fire?  The answer is to...