You're drowning in silence.
(externally & internally)
The words get stuck in your throat, trapped behind a wall of fears: fear of being misunderstood, fear of saying the wrong thing, fear of being "cancelled", fear of evolving beyond who you are and what you believe, now. You worry that unless your words are immediately witnessed and praised, they don't count.
Your mind is a constant hum of ideas, passions, and perspectives, you often feel you're bubbling over with potential.
But when it comes time to express the fullness of those ideas, you tend to freeze, overthink and talk yourself out of the best of them.
So the poetry never happens.
Your creativity is on autopilot.
The book never gets written.
The creative project sits in drafts.
The art never sees the light of day.
The fear that you feel of "being wrong" or "judged" is actually a fear of your own creative potential.
It's a fear that shows up when we know that we could have everything we have ever wanted... but what if it doesn't work and we're seen in our failure of trying to reach it? Meanwhile the world gets louder. Everyone has a take. Everyone has a platform. And the more noise there is, the harder it gets to hear yourself think. The people loudest about what the world should look like are not the people best equipped to build it and they're not asking if their ideas are good enough. They're not paralysed by complexity, nuance, or the possibility of being wrong.
The people who are best equipped are editing themselves into silence before they've even begun. Your silence isn't caution. It's a cost. Every piece of work that could have opened something sitting in a Google doc, unfinished in your notes, half-formed somewhere it can't do anything.
This is why Creative Living exists
Other spaces teach
you how to create.
Creative Living reminds
you why you must.
What is
Creative Living?
Creative Living isn’t something you complete.
It’s something you live inside.
Creative Living is an app, global community and library of frameworks, tools and prompts, where we also annual live intensives and guest panels every month. It's a long-term practice space, studio, sanctuary, all inside an app on your phone or desktop, to build a relationship with your creativity that will outlast the trends, the burnout and the bullshit. Inside, you’ll find:
- A global community that prioritises creative connection over performance
- Daily writing prompts and practices to keep you moving without pressure
- Somatic & nervous system resources to help you feel safe expressing again
- EFT tapping, deep visualizations + embodiment exercises to rewire the parts of you that still fear being seen, your potential, your deepest creative dreams or the relationship to creative practice itself
- Live roundtables and deep discussions that feed your brain and refill your soul
- Creative writing circles and monthly workshops so you never have to create alone
- Seasonal themes to guide your practice and honour the rhythms of real life
- A library of on-demand replays, practices and prompts to dip back into when you need a hit of truth or inspiration
- The creative community all us artists and creators need to flourish
Make work that matters to you, before it matters to anyone else.
And build a creative practice
that survives the algorithm, the doubt, the mess and real life.
A creative community that encourages you to go deep, build a consistent writing practice and uncover your greatest ideas.
What becomes possible when you are part of this kind of community? When you prioritise creative living?
You channel your boldest ideas into art, words, and work that you feel proud to share.
You practice your most daring thoughts in a safe, supportive space designed for creative expansion.
You create from a place of trust, not fear. No more questioning whether your ideas are “good enough.”
Here we create work that's unmistakably ours, without the pretence, the comparison, or the noise.
You don't need to be better before you deserve this.
The version of you that exists right now is worthy of creative practice. Of making work that matters. Of using your time to write your dreams into reality.
Creative Living isn't here to fix your creativity. Because you were never broken to begin with.
You're just ready.
Ready to stop waiting for permission. Ready to make work that's unmistakably yours. Ready to practice the skills required to articulate what comes next. Ready to use your creativity to shape reality, not just respond to it. Ready to stop obsessive self-surveillance, stop waiting for permission and start trusting that your voice matters, creativity matters, fulfilling work matters, now more than ever.
You've been sold that lie a thousand times, that there's a more healed, more optimised, more together version of you out there somewhere, and THAT version gets to write, create, spend time on work that matters.
That's bullshit.
The purpose of creation isn't the outcome.
It is the act of creation itself
that changes our lives.
Most platforms are designed to keep you consuming. We built one designed to keep you creating.
We host supper clubs and meetups in cities across the world for our members. the kind of evenings
nobody wants to end. Next up: Barcelona, Berlin, London, Costa Rica.
Creative Living Supper Clubs
The kind of people who join (and love) Creative Living
The nurse who writes poetry in her car before her shift starts and needs a space where that matters
The architect designing buildings all day who wants creative practice that has nothing to do with clients or revenue
The mother who stopped making art when the kids were born and is ready to start again, not "when there's time" but now
The therapist who holds space for everyone else's thinking and needs somewhere to process their own
The poet who's been published but wants to write the weird stuff that doesn't fit the literary aesthetic
The executive who creates "on brand" all day and needs a sanctuary where they can make work that's just THEIRS
The founder building a business who misses when they created for the love of it, not the metrics
The teacher who's exhausted from performing inspiration and wants to actually feel it again
The designer tired of making things look good and ready to make things that MEAN something
The photographer who wants to create images that tell truth, not just capture aesthetics
The writer who has a newsletter but is terrified to say what they actually think
The person with no "creative career" who just wants to fall back in love with being human and alive
The artist who's been playing it safe and is ready to make the work they've been circling for years
The someone scrolling Instagram at 11pm wishing there was an app that made them feel MORE human, not less
The leader who's tired of billionaire-owned platforms and wants community that isn't monetising their attention
The thinker who has ideas they can't quite articulate yet and needs a space and a practice to work them out
The kind of people who join (and love) Creative Living
The nurse who writes poetry in her car before her shift starts and needs a space where that matters
The architect designing buildings all day who wants creative practice that has nothing to do with clients or revenue
The mother who stopped making art when the kids were born and is ready to start again, not "when there's time" but now
The therapist who holds space for everyone else's thinking and needs somewhere to process their own
The poet who's been published but wants to write the weird stuff that doesn't fit the literary aesthetic
The executive who creates "on brand" all day and needs a sanctuary where they can make work that's just THEIRS
The founder building a business who misses when they created for the love of it, not the metrics
The teacher who's exhausted from performing inspiration and wants to actually feel it again
The designer tired of making things look good and ready to make things that MEAN something
The photographer who wants to create images that tell truth, not just capture aesthetics
The writer who has a newsletter but is terrified to say what they actually think
The person with no "creative career" who just wants to fall back in love with being human and alive
The artist who's been playing it safe and is ready to make the work they've been circling for years
The someone scrolling Instagram at 11pm wishing there was an app that made them feel MORE human, not less
The leader who's tired of billionaire-owned platforms and wants community that isn't monetising their attention
The thinker who has ideas they can't quite articulate yet and needs a space and a practice to work them out
The nurse who writes poetry in her car before her shift starts and needs a space where that matters
The architect designing buildings all day who wants creative practice that has nothing to do with clients or revenue
The mother who stopped making art when the kids were born and is ready to start again, not "when there's time" but now
The therapist who holds space for everyone else's thinking and needs somewhere to process their own
The poet who's been published but wants to write the weird stuff that doesn't fit the literary aesthetic
The executive who creates "on brand" all day and needs a sanctuary where they can make work that's just THEIRS
The founder building a business who misses when they created for the love of it, not the metrics
The teacher who's exhausted from performing inspiration and wants to actually feel it again
The designer tired of making things look good and ready to make things that MEAN something
The photographer who wants to create images that tell truth, not just capture aesthetics
The writer who has a newsletter but is terrified to say what they actually think
The person with no "creative career" who just wants to fall back in love with being human and alive
The artist who's been playing it safe and is ready to make the work they've been circling for years
The someone scrolling Instagram at 11pm wishing there was an app that made them feel MORE human, not less
The leader who's tired of billionaire-owned platforms and wants community that isn't monetising their attention
The thinker who has ideas they can't quite articulate yet and needs a space and a practice to work them out
Creative Living Transformations
Sabrina found creative liberation
It's impossible to capture the essence of Creative Living in one paragraph— you just have to live it.
That's exactly how Lois and Maia designed it: with love, generosity, and just the right mix of structure and flow. Workshops, a workbook, live meetings, a Notion dashboard–it has everything, but in a way that feels spacious, never overwhelming.
The real magic is the community. It's a space of light, but not the kind that just hugs you— it holds you accountable. Bold, compassionate, unafraid. It pushes you forward, one step at a time, in a way that feels both safe and expansive.
If you want to live more deeply, connect with your craft, and experience creative liberation— this is for you. You're not ready at all. And you're 100% ready.
I'll be here for Round II and every round after!
edila wrote the first pages of her memoir
Before Creative Living, I'd never consider myself "a writer". Now I am writing a memoir.
1. If I didn't take this program, I wouldn't have a Substack.
2. Flight Plan (group program) wouldn't exist (at least in the way it does).
3. The concept for my Mentorship, Homecoming, wouldn't exist.
4. I'd still feel like a boring/dulled down version of myself (this part killed me because IRL my humour/wit is one of my most-cherished attributes).
5. I'd still feel like creating and showing up from a place of deep lack "and that's for other people, not for me".
6. I'd still be following all these random rules and strategies because "it worked for them".
7. I'd still say "I'm not a writer".
The cost of not taking CL would have been endless.
@CBMEDITATES REACHED 300K FOLLOWERS WITH HIS POETRY
I must confess: I’ve been a part of many groups and communities before, but never before has my heart cracked open quite like this.
Never before have I felt this rawness, this embrace of vulnerability. A few transformations have unfolded since joining this space, and I wanted to share them with you.
I’ve begun writing more deeply and embracing my raw, authentic voice. I used to shy away from sharing about Tantra because of its often misunderstood reputation. But I’ve started writing consistently, and many of my recent posts have gone viral, and I’m connecting with incredible souls daily.
When I decided to intertwine Tantra with creativity a year ago, I lost followers rapidly, and my Instagram engagement plummeted. But now, sharing unapologetically has brought life and connection back to my work.
I feel more excited than ever to explore and write about the wild feminine sensuality and rooted masculine courage - these two ideas are breaking the walls on my IG! :))
Haley experience profound shifts
Creative Living changed everything about how I write and create.
Before this program, I was trapped in self-censorship, constantly watering down my voice to make it palatable. I was creating from strategy instead of soul, afraid to take up too much space with my words. Six weeks later, everything shifted: I write daily without resistance, I've started a Substack, I'm working on my first poetry book, I'm sharing stories I've never dared to voice before.
Most importantly? I found my real voice. Not the polished version. Not the acceptable version. But the raw, powerful, truth-telling voice that was waiting to break free.
This isn't just a writing program. It's a permission slip to unleash your creative power. It's a container for transformation. It's an innovation to let your words change things.
natalia reconnected with her expression
I was not only writing more, but dancing, cooking, and just exploring life with more creativity and pleasure, with more intention and openness.
What Creative Living has meant for me is a way of reconnecting with myself in many different ways.
They key for my experience was the beautiful balance of mental and philosophical exploration and the body/soul explorations.
It has helped me be more fully myself. Recognizing the censorship, the masks, the shadows that were hiding around creativity and also equipping me with tools that help me show up as the version of myself I am aiming for. It has helped me be more brave and tender at the same time.
nina experience profound shifts
Creative Living transformed my relationship with art and self-expression.
Initially, I struggled with feeling voiceless and hesitant to share my work. Through the program and community, I've experienced a profound shift– I no longer feel ashamed of my art or pressured to fit and 'artistic persona'.
While doubts occasionally surface, I'm embracing my unique creative voice. The program helped me rediscover myself and reignited my passion for writing, leading me to start a Substack. I'm continuing to work through the materials, excited to see my confidence grow further.
Your creative practice is how you shape reality.
Not metaphorically. Literally. The stories we tell become the worlds we live in. The questions we ask become the conversations we have. Your work, when it's true, complex, specific, brave, changes what's possible for everyone.
But that requires practice. Discipline. Stamina.
Not just talent. Not just inspiration. The actual skills:
⊙ Thinking clearly when everything is ambiguous
⊙ Holding contradiction without collapsing
⊙ Articulating what you're FOR, not just what you're against
⊙ Writing precisely enough that others can find you
⊙ Creating without extracting
⊙ Positioning yourself in the analysis
And there's never been a space designed for THIS.
For practicing creativity as LEADERSHIP. As social participation. As the discipline of future-making.
Until now.
Creativity, art, expression isn't self-indulgent. It is essential.
The world needs people who can think clearly when everything is ambiguous. Who can hold nuance without collapsing. Who can articulate what comes next, not just react to what is.
Your creative practice is how you do that.
Through devotion. Through the daily practice of:
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Inside Creative Living, everything shifts.
You stop asking "Is this good?" and start asking "Is this true?"
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We're not here to make you a better writer, painter, photographer, artist, creative (insert your own). We're here to make you braver at being yourself. Through daily practice, weekly deep dives, and a community that holds you accountable to your own becoming.
Your creativity becomes a daily conversation, not a special occasion
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Think of it as your creative operating system — daily prompts, somatic practices, writing challenges, creative remembering. Not another course in your inbox, but a living ecosystem that grows with you and reminds you, every day, why you’re even drawn to create in the first place, while respecting your natural ebbs and flows of inspiration.
You build a body of work that reads like evidence of your evolution
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An app full of guided excavation. Optional full-year membership for those ready to make creativity their primary relationship. Because transformation doesn't happen in isolation — it happens in practice, in community, in showing up especially when you don't feel ready.
Meet the workbook that broke the internet.
"How do we take this practice off the screen and into people's actual lives?"
When we created Creative Living, our guiding question was simple:
The answer became 150+ pages of rituals, prompts, philosophies, frameworks, sensory writing practices, somatic exercises, and questions designed to shake the dust off your creativity and get you telling the truth again on the page and in your life.
The first edition became a reason to write again. A container to come back to when the noise outside got too loud. Hundreds of creatives around the world printed it, shared it, lived inside it.
And now we've written Edition Two.
Every year, we release a new version of the Creative Living Workbook. Reimagined. Deepened. Evolved alongside the community.
And as long as you're in the platform, you get the most recent edition for included in your membership, inside the Expression Library.
This is a living practice that grows with you.
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Life After Creative Living
What's inside the Creative Living App
Think of this as your creative operating system. A luxury gym or spa for your creativity. Netflix for your soul except instead of mindless consumption, we give you everything you need to come home to your own creativity and expression, instead.
This isn't just content you passively absorb. It's a living, breathing ecosystem designed to transform how you create, think and express. And get you back to expression, safety in visibility and creation more frequently, more quickly and more enjoyably.
key practices
Morning rituals to anchor you in creative intention before the world pulls you elsewhere.
Evening rituals to close the day with creative reflection and make space for yourself.
am/pm rituals
the (ever-growing) energetics library
the (ever-growing) expression library
- The Art of Being Misunderstood – How to create boldly when people don't get it
- Are You Who You Think You Are?** – Excavating your hidden agenda and self-censorship
- Living As If You've Already Been Cancelled – Liberating your voice from fear of backlash
- Standing Tall in Your Truth – Visibility without performance
- The Creative Revolution – Being known for something bigger than you and creating during times of destruction
- Regenerative Business – Creating without extraction
- Navigating Imposter Syndrome – When doubt shows up uninvited
- Feeling Uninspired – Rekindling creative aliveness when the well runs dry
And more being added constantly.
collections
- Live meetups happening all over the world
- Feedback from the crew of incredible writers and creatives who hang out here
- Sharing new ideas, work, unfinished thoughts, letting them live outside your mind
- The kinds of conversations nobody else is having: creating in a world that feels broken, having real impact while protecting yourself, staying in the room with complex feelings when someone disagrees with you in public
- Monthly guest panels, where we bring in the kind of voices who are really doing the damn thing to have a space where we get to learn from the best, but in an informal setting. No slides, no lectures. Just Q&A, conversation, connection and shared wisdom.
This is where you practise being seen, heard, and witnessed in your truth without the performance, without the algorithm, without the need for applause.
the community
Dedicated spaces for:
Live Calls
Between our two annual intensive, live rounds -- included in your membership (where we meet weekly), we host monthly guest panels with voices that actually matter. Not influencers doing promotional tours. People doing real work - poets, activists, experts, artists creating through conflict, the people making powerful work that's changing the world. These aren't polished presentations with slides. They're intimate conversations. The kind of tables with the kinds of voices that don't usually get a seat. So we're building them ourselves.
The 8–Week Live Round Only
Perfect if you want to test the depths before committing to the full year.
$388 (Early Bird) or $488 (Standard)
payment plans available
Choose Your Path
The Full-Year Membership
For those ready to make creativity their primary relationship.
- Annual Payment: $597 for the year (Best value)
- 12-Month Commitment: $57/month for 12 months
- Month-to-Month: $120/month, cancel anytime
What you get with the membership:
- Year-round access to the Creative Living Platform
- All collections, practices, rituals, and libraries
- Daily prompts and creative challenges
- Global community with live meetups and feedback
- Monthly, live, guest panel discussions between live rounds
- TWO live 8-week rounds (Spring + Fall) with 12-month commitment
- ONE live 8-week round with month-to-month
- The Creative Living Workbook Volume II (Volume I available for purchase inside the platform)
- The Somatic Vault + Expression Library
- New practices, prompts, and resources added monthly
Tools & Frameworks you'll discover inside the Creative Living Library
Why the "weird bits" you keep deleting are the only parts worth keeping and how to trust them even when they don't fit the aesthetic or sound like what's trending
The exact moment your imagination became algorithmic and the practice that excavates where your thinking got flattened so you can reclaim what's actually yours
The difference between creating from aliveness vs. performing from anxiety and the somatic practice that returns you to genuine creative impulse when you've forgotten what it feels like
How to write like you might still be wrong making assumptions, missing something important, theorising what others survive and being precise about your uncertainty without losing your voice
Why your nervous system keeps you circling instead of creating and how to rewire the pattern that mistakes safety for stasis
The practice that dissolves comparison before it metastasises into paralysis because someone will always do your idea first, and you need to make it anyway
What distinguishes work that participates in cultural discourse from work that merely replicates approved narratives and how to trust your perception enough to articulate what you alone are seeing
Why discipline collapses but devotion lasts and how to make creating feel like sacred relationship instead of extractive task
How to make work that spreads not because it panders, but because it touches something real enough that people cannot stop thinking about it
Meet your hosts
Hi, I'm Lois.
Writer. Strategist. Reluctant poet. Creative instigator.
Here, I bring everything I know about messaging, creative discipline, self-expression, and the power of well-timed silence.
I’m not here to teach you how to “use your voice.” I’m here to help you trust it and build a relationship with your creativity that stretches far beyond the algorithm.
I graduated with a first-class degree in journalism. I’ve ghostwritten books. I’ve written for major publications. I’ve worked behind the scenes with global brands, award-winning agencies, and some of the biggest names in the online space helping people turn raw ideas into movements that matter.
But the work I’m most proud of isn’t the stuff that went viral. It’s none of that. It’s the writing I’ve done at my kitchen table with a sleeping baby in the next room and a lump in my throat, still deciding whether to say the thing or bury it.
Because for me, writing isn’t just *what* I do. It’s how I come home to myself. It’s how I tell the truth before I’m ready. It’s how I participate in a world that keeps asking us to choose palatability over presence.
In the expression library we:
Commit to the practice — not just when it’s easy, but when it matters most.
Practice being seen/heard and expressing new ideas with a group of like-minded creatives
Have the community support for processing your transformation
Build creative momentum — so creativity feels like something that naturally flows from you.
Create a sacred space to fully embody your evolved creative identity
Rewrite the story of resistance — so doubt, self-censorship, and hesitation no longer hold power over your expression.
Let the work shape us — because true creative breakthroughs happen when we show up, again and again, and allow ourselves to change in the process.
Hola, I’m Maia.
Writer. Kundalini teacher. Tantra student. Woman in love with possibility.
In Creative Living, I guide you into deeper relationship with your body, not as a machine to optimise, but as a portal to truth, vitality, and expression. We work with somatics, breath, movement, and energetic frameworks to soften resistance and rebuild trust in your internal creative rhythm.
In a nutshell, my job is to make "feeling" safe again, because that's where your best art lives.
For the last 10 years, I’ve been exploring the subtle but powerful connection between our nervous systems, our creativity, our ability to build a life we dream of and our sense of self. Through my work as a Kundalini teacher, tantra student, global brand designer and business mentor, I’ve learned that creative expression isn’t just a matter of mindset it’s a matter of *energetic capacity*.
The seed of my work is to show you the possibility to expand your capacity to HOLD more, and as a bi-product, call in more while doing less.
Most people aren’t creatively blocked. They’re dysregulated. They’re frozen in survival, chasing safety through perfection or invisibility, and wondering why inspiration won’t come.
In the energetics library, we:
Explore the concept of creativity as a conversation with the world, not just a personal monologue
Learn about the energy centers in the body, and how to work with your own energy through somatics and kundalini technology.
Develop practices to maintain creative resilience, and drop back into a safe place in the body, even in the face of judgement and misunderstanding
Understand how our energetic patterns shape our cognitive frameworks and vice versa
Discover the ways our bodies try to keep us “safe” by gravitating towards what’s familiar (aka keeping us small), and how we can rewire and re-wild the body
“Lois and Maia’s Creative Living is an example of a TRUE movement. It changed the landscape of the online creative space. It pushed us to reevaluate our roles in it. It influenced countless new conversations to be born from the mindsets it shifted — MINE INCLUDED.”
– xanthe appleyard
The magic of the workbook
- How to write without sounding like the algorithm is holding a knife to your throat
- The difference between content and creative expression — and why you feel dead inside when you confuse the two
- How to build a creative rhythm that doesn’t collapse every time life does
- The myth of the “ideal writing / creating time” — and how to create work even when conditions aren’t ideal
- How to explore new ideas without immediately trying to monetise, explain, or justify them
- Why your next big breakthrough might come from the writing you never show anyone
- The quiet rituals and practices that help your creativity survive a world that never stops talking
- How to cultivate *taste*— not just productivity — and create work with depth, texture and your own unique flavour
- Why play is not optional, and how to take your art more seriously by taking yourself less seriously
- How to write through contradiction, complexity, and nuance without diluting your message
- The creative cost of “trying to get it right” — and how to make work that’s honest instead of impressive
- What it means to build a body of work — not just a pile of posts — and create something that lasts
- Why your creativity isn’t just part of your life — it’s how you shape your identity, your integrity, and your impact
What you’ll walk away with:
- A stronger relationship with your voice, not just in public, but on the page and in private
- A sustainable rhythm of creative practice that isn’t shaped by performance or pressure
- Writing that matters to *you* first
- More courage to speak clearly, share honestly, and create work that reflects your real values
- A living body of work (even if no one else ever sees it, but we’ll encourage you to use it and put your work out into the world)
- A deeper sense of self-trust, discernment, and creative resilience
- The knowledge that you’re capable of every creative dream that swallows your subconscious, with the tools and creative resilience to bring it all to life
This is what happens when you stop waiting for permission and write your dreams to life.
