But right now, it felt wrong to put a price on something we believe the world actually needs.
We need more brilliant writers, artists, creatives with more visibility. And visibility without self-reckoning turns toxic. Just look around.
Art without self-knowledge becomes performance. Leadership without inner work becomes control. Creativity without truth-telling becomes noise.
The world needs more people who've done the work of facing themselves, so they can face what's happening without flinching, projecting, or falling apart.
You know how this goes.
By February, the planner's in a drawer. The goals feel like someone else wrote them. And you're back to the same patterns you swore you'd left in December.
Goals get reached, but you’re tired.
The manuscript you swore you’d finish sits untouched.
You promised you wouldn’t over work, but here you are on your second late night of the week.
You don’t lack discipline, or motivation, there’s no magic manifestation bullet to suddenly transforming into a different person overnight.
You just skipped a step.
You made promises about who you'd become without looking at who you've actually been.
Which means the most useful thing you can do at the start of a year or a season or a period of life where you’re reaching for a version of you that doesn’t feel like they’re here yet, where you want to do more with your voice, isn't to decide who you want to become.
It's to look at who your choices say you already are.
It’s to recognise who you are being, right now.
Where did your energy actually go?
What did you keep almost starting?
What did you stop doing without deciding to stop?
What conditions did you require before you let yourself create freely?
Words from Kayleigh, Creative Living member since September '23
"I am not only more creative because of it, but more open to allowing my creativity to move through me, to shift me, to reveal more possibility.
Creative Living gave me my tribe, my people, and may be one of the first places I have felt true belonging of my voice to me."
PART ONE: CLEAR THE CHANNEL
What actually happened — including the things you didn't plan, didn't post, didn't finish, didn't talk about.
PART TWO: ARE YOU BEING WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
What those patterns were protecting. What evidence you have for the work you want to create, the version of you who exists as the version who makes and does and has the things you want.
PART THREE: What wants to shift
through changing the evidence your nervous system is working from.
Revelations is a full practice you can return to at the start of any new season, any new chapter, whenever you need to see yourself clearly before you build, make, create, move.
THE ENERGETIC PRACTICE
THE CONTEXT
A PRACTICE YOU KEEP
NOT the kind of PDF you skim and forget.
THE WORKBOOK
Maia and Lois, co-founders of Creative Living
Not just slowing down and romanticising your morning coffee.
Dropping into the depths of your thinking. 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 practice is a way back in.
A practice in dropping into your own thinking. Knowing yourself. Having the hard conversation with yourself that you've been avoiding, the one about what you actually want, what you've been protecting, what's ready to change and who you want to be when you show up for the world.
If there's anything the world needs now, it's conscious leadership. Intentional artists. People willing to use their voices, clearly, cleanly, without leaking their unexamined stories and beliefs and biases onto everyone around them.
If this practice will help, it's yours.