Where creativity meets psychology in the rich magical middle
Honoring art as therapy and catharsis while exploring the shadow side of how mental health challenges impact creative process, medium, content, productivity, identity and business.
Moving beyond tortured genius vs. art as always therapeutic
Create Me Free supports artists, makers, and creatives in their journeys to experience holistic wellness: creative, emotional, financial, physical, relational.
I honor the therapeutic benefits of creativity while holding space for how mental health and psychological states can impact creative process, content, medium, productivity, artistic identity, and creative businesses.
Our psychology and creativity deeply intersect with our communities, culture, and context. The world within us meets the world external to us.
Creative Health Cartography
Personalized Mapping for Artists, Writers, and Makers
What is Creative Health Cartography?
Creative Health Cartography is my approach to understanding how your holistic health (physical, emotional, mental, financial, relational) impacts your creativity.
I chose the language of cartography deliberately. When you’re lost in unfamiliar territory, a map doesn’t tell you where to go. It shows you where you are, reveals the landscape around you, and helps you make informed choices about your path forward.
That’s what this work does. It’s not prescriptive. It doesn’t tell you what’s “wrong” with you or hand you a checklist of fixes. Instead, it illuminates the terrain of your creative life: showing you what’s flourishing, what’s challenging, what tools you already carry, and what paths are available.
The core belief: the answers are already within you. You remain the expert on your own journey. The map just helps you see it more clearly.
The Creative Health Cartography Methodology
Through personalized assessments, I analyze how health impacts your creativity across six interconnected territories. Think of them as islands forming an archipelago: distinct but related, each affecting the others.
Process
How health affects the way you create, including your rituals, routines, and approaches
Medium
How health shapes your choice of materials and forms
Content
How health influences what you create about: themes, subjects, what shows up or doesn’t
Productivity
How health impacts output, pace, and capacity
Identity
How health shapes your artistic sense of self
Sustainability
How health affects your ability to sustain creative work over time
Who Is This For?
Creative Health Cartography is for artists, writers, and makers who sense that their health and creativity are connected but want to understand exactly how. It’s for creatives navigating chronic illness, mental health challenges, life transitions, burnout, creative blocks, or simply a desire to work more sustainably.
If you’ve ever wondered why you create the way you do, or how your wellbeing is showing up in your work, this is for you.
How to Work With Me
Creative Health Map
Your personalized Creative Health Map illuminating how health shows up across your creative practice. Includes a 5-8 page report and custom visual map of your creative health landscape.
Plus 60 minute Orientation call.
Based on archive review or guided interview.
$246
Creative Health Navigation
For continued support after your Map. (or to purchase without a map)
1:1 conversations to explore specific territories in depth, troubleshoot challenges, and develop strategies for sustainable creative practice.
$188
per session or discount for 3-session packages
Sliding Scale Available
I’m always happy to discuss sliding scale pricing. Your financial situation should never be a barrier to creative support and self understanding. Let’s figure something out that works for both of us.
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