one year of
A writing-based practice and community for anyone who wants to stop performing their greatest life and start creating it.
The creative revolution you crave lives here
Creative Living started as a 6-week experiment in uncensored expression. A year after, it's become something else entirely.
A global community where creative people remember how to tell the truth. Where we stop optimising for relevance and start creating for resilience and your voice matters not because it goes viral, but simply because it's yours.
This isn't another "learn how to be creative" course.
This is where you remember your innate creativity is essential to the most fulfilling, impactful life and creating the kind of world we all want to live in.
crave
round 3 begins October 10
Other courses teach
you how to write.
Creative Living reminds
you why you must.
We've been stripped of and subsequently re-sold our creativity like the next hot diet pill.
NO WONDER WE ALL EXPERIENCE AN IDENTITY CRISIS EVERY 6 MONTHS.
You are not broken. Your voice is worthy, just because it is. Your work is good, just because it is. Your ideas are interesting enough to pursue, just because they are. You are an artist, even if all you created today was a breakfast masterpiece for your kids.
Your creativity is YOURS. It’s already there.
The content we consume keeps us locked in a never-ending scroll habit that leaves us feeling drier than burnt toast and then we’re sold the coaching, self-improvement, habit stacking, journals, 47 step morning routines, gratitude journals, supplements and longevity we need to simply survive it in — a culture that tries to convince us that a) we’re not whole, ok or “enough” as we are and b) our creative expression has to be "worthy" to simply earn the right to exist outside our minds.
Why Creative Living?
Why now?
Creative Living invites you to be the person that chooses depth, authenticity, and full self-expression.
It feels like, right now, the digital world where we spend (way too much of) our time favours quick soundbites, catchy one-line hooks, or "rage-bait" over nuanced thought, compassion, and healthy dialogue.
Creative Living doesn't simply mean living a soft life, slowing down and romanticising everything you do—
It's also dropping into the depths of your thinking, knowing yourself, having hard conversations, and liberating your voice from the layers of guilt, shame, and other people's expectations that have drowned YOU out.
Regardless of how anybody else receives it.
This is what Creative Living means to us.
The purpose of creation isn't the outcome.
It is the act of creation itself
that changes our lives.
alumni
re-enrolment rate
testimonials had the words "life-changing"
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.
samantha released her inner genius
This isn't for the faint of heart. Creative Living is going to challenge you and how you think.
the result of what you do after is on you, however, Lois and Maia gives you the tools you need in order to move through the emotions and mental blocks that you have to move forward.
Before Creative Living, I wasn't HALF as comfortable with sharing my inner voice and what I did share came from a place of not desire but of "force" because I knew I "had" to do it. After the program, I was able to properly articulate and embrace the medicine I am supposed to give to he world. I'm far more secure in releasing my inner voice and sharing it with the world.
The self trust and love that you grow during the program, and the trust and respect that you create with your inner voice is undeniable.
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.
We weren’t taught how to tell the truth.
We were taught how to be palatable. To perform. To keep the peace. To make it make sense to someone else before it makes sense to ourselves.
We learned how to overthink, how to self-edit, how to silence the parts of us that didn’t fit the mould.
But here you are. Still holding on to something. A thread of clarity. A knowing. A voice that hasn’t stopped whispering.
The question isn’t whether you have something to say. It’s whether you’ll let yourself say it.
Creative Living is a writing-based community and practice space for anyone who wants to stop performing their life and start creating it.
It’s where we write. Speak. Feel. Share. Process. Reclaim. Practice. It’s where we remember who we are, own our stories and what we came here to write (or what wants to be written next). It’s where everything we create turns into a body of work we can feel really proud of.
Your voice isn't fragile. Stop treating it like glass.
Somewhere along the way, you learned to handle your words like they might break something.
Maybe you. Maybe them. Maybe the careful distance you’ve built between who you are and who you let people see.
But your voice was built for weather, not windowsills. It doesn’t need to be perfect, polished, or applauded to matter. It just needs to be used.
Because expression is not a brand strategy. It’s a life practice.
Where writing becomes a tool to understand the self and face the world. Where the somatic meets the strategic. Where you learn to expand your nervous system capacity to hold your creative expression and show up in the middle of the mess. Where silence isn’t punished and self-expression isn’t performative.
Creative Living is where we rebuild that practice, together.
We have conversations no one else will have. We tell the truth on the page and in real life. We don’t create for claps, clicks or consensus. We create because this is how we live.
We write things we
never plan to publish.
Creative Living is for people who:
Know they’re creative but feel blocked, burnt out, or buried under the noise
Want to write, share, or speak more, but keep censoring themselves
Long for a deeper relationship with their creativity, outside the algorithm
Are exhausted by the pressure to be relevant and want to be true instead
Crave community, rigour, rebellion, resonance
Need a space that isn’t afraid of big feelings, nuance, or truth-telling
You might be an artist, entrepreneur, writer, creative, builder, activist, coach, or simply someone who is tired of ghosting your own voice.
This is a space where titles dissolve.
In whichever season of life you’re in right now, Creative Living is a place to remember that you don’t need a brand new identity. You need a place to return to the one you already have.
You don’t need a niche or another productivity hack. You need a nervous system wired for your wildness and a creative rhythm.
Inside Creative Living,
You stop asking "Is this good?" and start asking "Is this true?"
01
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
02
This year, we're launching a completely new platform. 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
03
Eight weeks 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.
everything shifts.
Meet the Creative Living Workbook—the workbook that broke the internet.
"How can we take this practice off the screen and into people's actual lives?"
When we dreamed up Creative Living, our guiding question was simple:
The answer became the Creative Living Workbook. Designed as the perfect companion to the app, each chapter mirrors the practices inside the program so you can deepen the work beyond the curriculum. All you need is your phone, the workbook, and your untamed expression.
The Workbook that broke the internet is a living archive of 150+ pages of...
broke
“Best business investment you made this year?”
The new Creative Living platform/app is unlike anything else...
Starting October 10th, you'll have access to:
Your AM/PM Daily Practices
- Each morning, open your Creative Living app to find:
- Today’s creative prompt (not gentle suggestions — provocations)
- An AM / PM somatic practice to move resistance through your body and work with it’s wisdom.
- The day’s writing challenge.
- Community shares from others doing the work.
Your weekly rhythm
- MONDAYS
Regenerative Writing Circle with Lois:
Start your week by setting creative intentions. New theme, new challenge, new permission to go deeper than last week. - TUESDAYS–THURSDAYS
Practice Circles:
30 minutes. Cameras optional. Show up with whatever you’re working on — or just show up. The magic is in the consistency. - FRIDAYS
Integration & Embodiment
Weeks 1-4: Live roundtables where we play with form, break rules, experiment in real-time.
Weeks 5-8: Integration circles with Maia. Bring your journal and maybe tissues.
YOUR YEAR OF BECOMING
- Both live 8-week rounds (Fall & again in Spring)
- Monthly guest workshops between rounds.
- Year-round community access.
- Every tool, framework and practice we’ve developed and will develop over the year.
The space to let your creative practice become your creative identity.
YOUR FOREVER COMPANION:
THE WORKBOOK
Long after the 8 weeks are complete (or the full year, if you choose membership) you’ll still have this as a resource you can return to again and again.
Most of our alumni keep it on their desks and keep revisiting the pages whenever they need to re-root in their voice.
A lifelong practice space for your art
We created Creative Living so the shifts don’t end when our seasonal rounds do.
This isn’t a “high” that fades or a “course” you complete—it’s a Body of Work you build for yourself.
A lifelong resource that deepens your relationship with your own expression through every season of life.
Because your Body of Work isn’t just what you create, but how you respond.
To what you feel.
To what you witness.
To what this moment
in time is asking of you.
We’re not here to optimise for individual relevance.
We’re here to participate in a collective conversation.
To make meaning in a world that keeps asking us to numb out or look away.
Maybe your art won’t save the world.
But it might hold someone together for a moment longer.
It might remind YOU what still matters.
It might keep you connected to yourself, to a practice that reminds you who you are.
And that is not small.
A Body of Work is not just “your ideas, well expressed”
It’s a living relationship with your values.
A dialogue with the future.
A devotion to truth — even when the truth is inconvenient, unfinished, or hard to hold.
That’s the point of Creative Living.
Not just to make more things.
But to build a practice that nourishes you.
To create without the constant fear of being wrong.
To write your way into the kind of life that feels like yours.
“Big statement testimonial
here but we need to ask
for more testimonials”
– MAIA
The 8–week Intensive
$488 (or 4 payments of $122)
Perfect if you want to test the depths before diving all the way in.
Full 8-week live experience
All materials, practices and frameworks
Platform access for the 8 week round
Community access for the 8 week round
Lifetime access to the Creative Living Workbook
Everything you need to revolutionise
your creative practice
(or 4 payments of $97)
(ends October 1st)
The full year membership
$97/month (or one payment of $1.164)
For those ready to make their own creativity and creative goals their main relationship.
BOTH 2025 8-week live rounds included (Spring + Fall)
Monthly guest workshops between rounds
Full platform access year-round
New prompts and exercises monthly
Access all of the resources & workshops year-round
Continuous community connection and
the sustained practice that changes everything
(or 1 payment of $900)
(ends October 1st)
This is a movement.
A rebellion against the pressure to optimise, perform, and sanitise. A sanctuary for nuance, contradiction, truth.
A revolution in how we relate to our voices.
You don’t have to go viral to matter. You don’t have to be polished to be powerful. You don’t have to wait until you feel ready to write what’s true.
You just have to begin.
week one
The Excavation
week two
The Remembering
week three
The Reckoning
week four
The Practicing
weeks five to eight
The Becoming
You'll receive everything you need to sustain this practice beyond our 8 weeks:
no. 1
The workbook that broke the internet. We’re coming out with the SECOND EDITION and you know that the whole value is in the pages of this book alone.
The Creative Living Workbook Volume II
no. 2
The Somatic Vault
No. 3
The Expression Library
No. 4
Because creativity thrives in rhythm, not randomness.
The Daily Practice
No. 5
The Community
What you’ll learn in the new 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
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.
Hola, I’m Maia.
Writer. Somatic guide. Kundalini teacher. Lifelong student of energy and emotion.
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.
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 facilitator, global brand designer and business coach, I’ve learned that creative expression isn’t just a matter of mindset it’s a matter of *energetic capacity*.
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.
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.
samantha released her inner genius
This isn't for the faint of heart. Creative Living is going to challenge you and how you think.
the result of what you do after is on you, however, Lois and Maia gives you the tools you need in order to move through the emotions and mental blocks that you have to move forward.
Before Creative Living, I wasn't HALF as comfortable with sharing my inner voice and what I did share came from a place of not desire but of "force" because I knew I "had" to do it. After the program, I was able to properly articulate and embrace the medicine I am supposed to give to he world. I'm far more secure in releasing my inner voice and sharing it with the world.
The self trust and love that you grow during the program, and the trust and respect that you create with your inner voice is undeniable.
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.
We created Creative Living because we both believe creativity isn’t a brand, a hobby, or a productivity tool.
It’s a way of life. A radical commitment to expressing what’s real, even when it’s inconvenient. And that matters now more than ever.
What you’ll walk away with:
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 start listening inward.
Inside the Creative Living Community Space:
Roundtable sessions where we sharpen truth through dialogue
Somatic tools and practices to regulate and rebuild creative safety
Private community space off social media
The Creative Living app to access your daily practice and resources off the laptop
Daily writing prompts, self-led masterclasses and optional creative challenges to work towards a common goal in community and light the fire back under your creative desires
Personal coaching and feedback inside the group space
{NEW} The Creative Living Workbook volume II
Creative Living runs for 8 weeks.
You can move at your own pace or follow the rhythm of the group. There are live calls and plenty of space to simply listen and integrate. You don’t need to “keep up” or “show up”. You just follow your practice and watch where it leads you.
Frequently Asked Questions
free download
First 3 Chapters of the Creative Living Workbook
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