Creativity doesn’t need more time. It needs permission.
Prompts, honest writing, and tools for women who haven’t stopped being creative, they’ve just stopped making room for it.
Hi, I’m Hélène. I spent years squeezing creativity into the margins of a busy life. Then I remembered something about koi: they only grow as big as the space they’re given. Creativity is the same, it doesn’t grow from being squeezed into leftover time, it grows when we make room for it. Daily Creative Flow is where I write about that, and where I build the tools I wish I’d had sooner. Read more about me.
From the blog
- Walking Doesn’t Just Clear My Head. It Clears My Heart.
Some days I start a walk angry. At someone else, or more often, at myself. The first fifteen minutes are usually spent ruminating, replaying the same conversation, rehearsing the thing I should have said. And then, almost without noticing it happen, it passes. Walking releases me from my own negative thoughts in a way that… - Curiosity Is a Muscle, and Most of Us Have Stopped Using It
I’m going to sound like someone’s grandmother for a moment (which I am not, quite yet). We have more tools to learn things than any generation before us, and somehow, we’ve gotten worse at the most basic form of learning there is: just being curious. For me, curiosity has become something I sometimes have to… - Your Creative Routine Doesn’t Have to Look Like Anyone Else’s
If you’ve ever felt guilty for not being a 5am miracle morning, cold plunge, gratitude journal by 6am kind of person, I have good news. So did most of the greatest creative minds in history. Take Picasso. He woke up around 10am, had breakfast, and spent his morning on hobbies and errands. He didn’t pick…