A Contemplative Approach to Growth in Your Creative Life
Hi, I'm Craig.
The life of making can bring exhilaration and exhaustion.
Moments of inspiration are often followed by the pressure of the next deadline, the next rewrite, the next demand.
You’ve felt the thrill of creation — the late-night breakthrough, the cut that finally lands, the electric atmosphere of the rehearsal hall or the writer’s room when it all comes together.
And then, at the height of success, you allow yourself to celebrate for about seven and a half seconds before the cycle of pressure begins again.
What’s next? What now?
And if the thing you’ve dedicated your time, your energy, your life to is everything it’s cracked up to be.
I’ve lived that same cycle of making and remaking, excitement and pressure.
I know how easily pressure — the kind you put on yourself as well as the kind the world applies — can squeeze the love out of your creative practice.
You don’t need to learn something new.
You may need to remember what brought you here — your craft, your path, your practice.
Our work together is about meeting what’s here — not fixing, not forcing, but seeing clearly with kind attention.
When we see clearly, we see what wants to emerge: the next idea, the next project, even a creative reinvention of who we are.
As that happens, the energy once bound up in tension softens and moves freely again — ready to flow into creation.
We uncover the stories and conditioning that have shaped your creative life, your process, and your beliefs about who you are today.
Together, we look at the stories that drive you — and the quieter ones that have been drowned out by the noise.
The stories that inspire you, rather than push you, to create and be creative.
Every creative life carries its own seasons.
We explore how, when you unhook your attention from the external noise and the stories that come with it, what’s left often feels like calm.
In that calm, we finally experience the stillness and peace where we hear and feel the work that’s ours to do.
- Working with creative fear and self-criticism.
- How the stories we tell (or absorb) have shaped who we believe we can be and what we think is possible for us.
- Rediscovering and reclaiming the story that led you to this work in the first place.
- Realigning your creative life with your creative will.
- Developing your connection to your inner voice and your agency.
- Developing ways for you to live according to what you value most.
- Living the creative path as contemplative practice.
If you recognise yourself here – if this sounds like something you want to dive deeper into – Contact Me and let’s have a conversation.