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Happy end of April. It was a full, full month around here in wonderful ways.
The big news from April:
I launched the new Create Me Free podcast!
My birthday! I turned 46 on the 13th which all feels like auspicious numbers.
The Creative Health Cartography workbook is for sale and ready to go on a virtual tour here on Substack. Stay tuned for details.
I did a presentation on Crocheting Through Anxiety for the Power of Positive Crochet Summit
Below are all the things I wrote, recorded and shared in April.
PODCAST!!
I am really excited to have launched a podcast. These early episodes are a bit trial and error but so far I’m happy with them and love talking to you all about how health and circumstance impact creativity.
The podcast is here on Substack but you can also get it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and YouTube Podcasts. If you’re on any of those, it makes a huge difference if you hit the five stars review!
This is the monthly recap of everything I wrote in April plus some life updates and other things. If you like to keep your inbox quiet, you are able to subscribe just to these monthly updates. Here’s how.
Dear Artist Letters
Every Sunday, I share letters for artists who might be going through specific challenges. I hope that sometimes they resonate. In April I shared:
April Themes
On Wednesdays, I take inspiration from the week’s artist letter and provide more researched and grounded writing on that theme along with links to related writing. April’s themes were:
And Other Things
On Fiber Art
On Medium
Before You Even Start Looking: 7 Assumptions Artists Make About Their Own Creative Health
Your Creative Process Has Never Been Neutral: 8 Ways Health Shapes How You Make
Most Process Advice Starts Too Late: 8 Things Happening in Your Body at the Creative Threshold
And more
Gratitude for Articles Mentioned In:
When creativity grows quiet from Ageless Possibilities quotes my articles on creative numbness and the window of tolerance.
the sparky connections between materials that surprises you into thinking a new way from Bee-Witched Zines who highlighted the Blackout Poetry project I did here on Substack in collaboration with Monique Mulligan and also linked to my article on a framework for self-awareness in creativity
“Artists, Mental Health, and Institutions” curated by Karyn Hinkle; on display at the Little Fine Arts & Design Library in Spring 2026 included a link to my article on asylum art
Coming in May …
Stay tuned for a variety of essays about health impacting creativity which are part of the Creative Health Cartography Workbook virtual tour. Tune in on Fridays as new podcast episodes come out. And more …
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