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The Real Reason You Struggle To Follow Through On Your Writing Goals, And Why 2026 Can Be Different 📝💖

How many ideas have you abandoned this year? How many drafts of the book you dream of writing are collecting dust in the corner? How many times have you reassured yourself… I’ll come back to it soon. I’ll make the time, when. I can’t right now, I’ll get to it one day.
 
We all have well-meaning intentions when we make promises to ourselves in January… but I also know how easily life can pull us in different directions, scattering our attention and diluting our energy until suddenly, here we are again in December, harbouring remorse and disappointment for the dreams that were left unanswered.
 
I see you standing here at the end of another year, with a soft dream in your heart. I see the energy of this dream radiating and cascading and orbiting around you, dancing in the delight of being close to you 🪐✨ But I also see your uncertainty… your apprehension.
 
When you look back at the last year your mind will take you back to all of the moments where you backtracked on your promise; the moments where you started writing and then stopped because the discomfort and uncertainty overwhelmed you; the moments where your practise burned you out and you were left feeling defeated and not good enough.
 
What if I told you that you’re not the problem… but your process is.
 
I want you to ask yourself honestly… how would it feel to arrive in January already knowing you have prepared a soft space for your dream to land? What could unfold from that place of intention and trust?
 
What if there is one small, intentional choice you could make right now {before January}, that could gift you the stability and assurance you need to move forward with your dreams in 2026? 🌟
 
Because the truth is, nothing changes if nothing changes. When January comes around and you tell yourself once again… this is the year I’m going to write the book of my dreams. This is the year I’m finally going to bring the words and stories of my heart into fruition.
 
What will actually be different if your approach is the same? Join me for this final episode of the year and uncover the real reason you struggle to follow through on your writing goals… and why next year can {and will} be different 💪🏻💫
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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The 3x Things Holding You Back From Taking Action on Your Writing Dreams ✍🏻️✨

Speaking as a gentle creative being who self-published my own collection of poetry after a four year creative journey… I have an intimate understanding of what it feels like to postpone and dance around the dream of writing your own book.
 
For three years I struggled to breakthrough a creative threshold that had me perched on the edge of potential. I had the desire to begin the action phase of my writing process… but I was still holding on to so much fear, resistance and anxiety around what this phase would look like, how the process would unfold, and what it was going to ask of me.
 
If you too are feeling caught in this liminal space in your own writing process, know that you’re not alone. You might be…
 
✍🏻️ Overcomplicating what the process needs to look like. 
✍🏻️ Believing you need to to know the step-by-step process before committing.
✍🏻️ Questioning your capabilities, your worthiness, and wondering if you have the strength, tenacity and patience to do justice to your vision.
 
Are some {or all of these} sounding familiar to you?
 
Well within this episode we’ll be exploring how these thoughts and beliefs might be holding you back from taking intentional and integral action on your writing dreams… so that you can move beyond this state of hesitation and procrastination, and finally bring your vision to life 📖🖊💫
 
Love Stephanie
xx   
 
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How I Cultivated a Safe and Sustainable Writing Process That Brought My Book To Fruition, and Why Supporting You To Do The Same is My Specialty 🪄

I’m both nervous and delighted, because within this episode I’ll be sharing a brand new offering with you!! 🪐✨ But before I reveal this beautiful new space I’ve designed for your creative {self} exploration, I want to share a little story with you…
 
One that will hopefully provide some insight into the purpose and intention behind this new offering, and convey why it’s the space for you to begin cultivating an embodied writing practise that feels soft, sustainable, spacious and safe… and that will still tenderly move you towards your goals and sacred creative dreams.
 
I’ve served clients for over three years now to gently and intentionally tend to the fruition of their own unique creative dreams, and nurture a signature methodology that allows their sacred {self} expression {their voice, views and values} to be brought to fruition courageously, authentically and easefully.
 
Cultivating this bespoke process and walking alongside you throughout it has become my sacred specialty, because I understand firsthand the delicate tenderness needed to allow the glimmer of what calls to your creative heart to be expressed courageously and authentically through you.
 
Love Stephanie
xx   
 
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The Practise That Supported Me To Redefine and Own My Creative Confidence 🌟

Many of the women I support in my mentoring space, share that one of the most coveted feelings they long to experience within their creative exploration… is the feeling of confidence.
 
Quite often these brave women come into our collaborative space already feeling strong, confident and empowered within themselves. But when it comes to exploring and sharing their creative heart expression with more transparency, trust and conviction… here is where they face new and untraversed territory.
 
Within this episode we will be exploring the idea that confidence is not something we begin the creative journey with… but that it’s forged by leaning into the moments of our exploration where we feel the most doubtful and insecure.
 
I will also be sharing the one simple practise that supported me to redefine, reclaim and take full ownership of my own {self-defined} creative confidence. If you feel trapped within an unceasing loop of not readiness, telling yourself you need to feel more confident before you can begin creating… this is the episode for you 💕
 
Love Stephanie
xx   
 
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Knowing When To Give Your Creative Work Breathing Room 🌿

I know you know the feeling…
 
One moment you’re focussed and flowing in your creative practise, and the next you meet a fierce and seemingly impenetrable wall of frustration.
 
All of a sudden you feel stalled, stifled and annoyed at yourself for losing the rhythm. Then you experience an urge… an urge to force your way through it; to fight and force and will yourself back into rhythm. But the more pressure you place on yourself and your creative energy, the more blocked, frustrated and disconnected you feel. It becomes a cycle of contraction that continues to tighten and close in the more we force ourselves to keep pushing through.
 
But what if… instead of trying to force our way through the self-criticisms and self-judgements that arise when we feel creatively frustrated and blocked, we choose to give our creative work breathing room?
 
What if we offered our creative hearts the grace of patience, spaciousness and the act of slowing down?
 
What if giving your creative work breathing room, could actually be the most healthy and healing way of nurturing authenticity, intentional truth, conscious and boundaried freedom, as well as rhythmical flow and integrity within our sacred creative expression?
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Returning To Rest and Reclaiming Our Cyclical Wisdom with Jemma Thompson {Part Two} 🍃

Welcome to part two of our conversation on “Returning To Rest and Reclaiming Our Cyclical Wisdom”, with my ethereal and kindred soul sister… Jemma Thompson.
 
Within the divine and delicious second half of this special episode, we will be deepening into the reasons we {especially as women} resist and diminish our need for rest. Jemma will be shining a light on the guilt, anxiety and deep shame we feel towards rest, and why women feel that rest is something to be earned. Jemma will bring forward the significance of having positive modelling when it comes to embracing healthy, embodied rest… and the importance of witnessing other women reflect to us the way we want to be and live.
 
We will also be touching on the ways in which women can nurture an awareness of our unique needs when it comes to rest; how we can more easefully and compassionately give ourselves permission to rest, and learn to honour and celebrate the nuances of our inner rhythms {instead of working against them}.
 
Jemma will also be holding space on the microphone for a little solo segment, where she will be exploring seven different forms of rest, expanding on the purpose of these different forms, and how each unique way of resting tends to a different layer of our being.
 
Ultimately… this conversation is a gateway to revealing and reclaiming the beautiful {ancient} knowing that true rest is holistic. That when we are honouring rest we are not only honouring ourselves, but we are creating a more harmonious and conscious relationship with life.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Jemma’s Book Recommendations: “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron and “The Relaxed Woman” by Nicola Jane Hobbs
 
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Returning To Rest and Reclaiming Our Cyclical Wisdom with Jemma Thompson {Part One} 🌺💫

In this special two-part guest episode of "The Conscious Creative", I am joined by one of my dearest friends and soul sister Jemma Thompson, for an enlightening, elevated and emotionally soothing conversation on returning to rest and reclaiming our cyclical wisdom.
Gorgeous Jemma is a certified Holistic Health Coach, Menstrual Cycle Coach, and gentle space holder for the heart and soul. She creates warm, soulful spaces where women can come home to themselves through rest, presence, ritual, and cyclical wisdom. As the creator of "Cocoon", her online women’s circles, Jemma guides women into deeper connection with their inner seasons, helping them to honour their bodies, emotions, and intuitive rhythms. With a deep reverence for slowness and the sacredness of everyday life, she weaves together body-based practices, journaling and ritual to support women in softening into who they truly are. Jemma’s work is a tender invitation to step away from the noise of the world and return to the quiet knowing within.
 
In Part One of this gently rebellious conversation… Jemma will be illuminating her pathway towards reclaiming rest, sacred self-connection and presence, and sharing her unique journey of coming home to her natural inner rhythms by embodying the ancient wisdom of cyclical living. Together we will be exploring the layered landscape of rest; how rest is a return to deep presence and replenishment… a reclamation of softness, safety and self-sovereignty within our whole being. We will be touching on why rest is the secret to creating from a place of fullness and flow, and how it replenishes the well from which inspiration, clarity and our true authentic expression can blossom from. Jemma will also be deepening into the nature of cyclical wisdom, addressing the powerful relationship between rest and reclaiming this sacred ancestral way of living and being.
 
I hope the essence of this episode stirs within you a recognition of something needed… and I hope your gentle heart is open to receiving all the wonder, light, honesty and courage from our conversation today… like a honeybee relishing the nectar of a flower in full bloom.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
Part Two Coming Thursday 11th September 💫
 
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What Happens When You Keep Putting Off Your Creativity 🍂

There are several things that happen when we become trapped in a pattern of abandoning our creative work {or delaying our creative calling entirely}.
 
🍂 The first is the emotional exhaustion that comes with abandoning your creative vision over and over again.
 
🍂 The second is the subtle and invisible layers of distrust that build within us each time we desert our ideas. Because in turning away from something that deeply matters to our hearts… we’re chipping away at our confidence, self-trust and self-belief a little bit at a time.
 
🍂 The third is that in this constant cycle of starting and stopping… nothing is ever finished. Nothing is ever brought to fruition.
 
The most devastating part of abandoning our creative vision {or putting it off completely}, is not because we lack the passion, the determination or the desire to bring it into the world… but because our belief that we can’t do it is stronger than our intuitive knowing that we can.
 
Have a listen to this episode if you’re ready to finally breakaway and move beyond this pattern of creative abandonment… and step into the creative integrity, self-loyalty, confidence and fulfilment you so deeply desire and deserve.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Honouring The Divine Timing of Your Creative Work… And Why It’s Never Perfect ⏰💫

There will never be a "perfect time" for your creative work. But when the desire is alive within your heart to venture into a journey of bringing your vision to fruition… do you consciously choose to honour the call of your own divine {creative} timing?
 
This special episode of "The Conscious Creative" is a compilation of three previous episodes, all of which explore three inherent creative values… balance, instinct, and patience. Together we will be touching on why these three values support the natural unfolding of our authentic heart expression.
 
🌱 Episode 10.) Balancing Your Everyday World with Pursuing Your Creative Vision
🌱 Episode 16.) Channelling Your Creative Instincts
🌱 Episode 18.) The Importance of Patience In Pursuit Of Our Highest Potential
 
Join me for this fun and thought-provoking episode, where we’ll be illuminating the power that comes with honouring what needs to be expressed, and not resisting or dismissing the pull of our own divine {creative} timing.
 
Love Stephanie xx
 
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Shifting From Self-Criticism To Self-Compassion In Your Creative Practise 🌱

One of the greatest areas of concern for my “Creative Power” clients when it comes to nurturing their creative expression with confidence, courage, and deep self-trust… is the vulnerability of exploring new layers of authenticity in their creativity, and the deep fear of being seen in their creative truth for the first time.
 
Within this insightful and gentle episode, we will be looking at the ways in which our vulnerability and fear of being seen can perpetuate feelings of self-doubt, self-criticism, self-judgement and shame in our creative practise, and how these feelings can then hold us {and our creative potential} captive in an uncomfortable cycle of stagnancy, resistance, perfectionism, procrastination and creative anxiety.
 
In order to experience the authenticity, confidence, courage, and easeful self-trust we so deeply desire in our creative expression, we have to learn to embrace our vulnerability, our fears, and our resistance in a way that still allows our hearts {and our creativity} to feel safe, seen, and sacredly supported.
 
Have a listen to this episode where I will be sharing of my simple suggestions for how you can nurture safety, authenticity, confidence and deep trust in your creative practise, and bring your creative vision to life with greater intention and ease… while also feeling vulnerable 🌷🍃
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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