Create Calm Crew

Creative workshops for busy minds to find calm
🎨Therapeutic art
✏️Journaling

I’m a fine artist and certified teacher guiding stressed out professionals to find more inner calm through fun and creative well-being experiences. A community helping busy minds find calmness through fun and immersive creative activities:

💗therapeutic art
😂laughter yoga
👁mindfulness exercises
🤩Visionary journaling
💥Monthly challenges to keep you fired up and inspire good habits

💛transform your anxiety into peace💛

24/05/2026

Your past is determining your future…

And you’re probably starting to realise it…

Those thoughts about yourself that you’ve had since childhood , those experiences that are starting to feel all too familiar, those poor decisions or lack of action…

If you feel like your past experiences are shaping your present life in a negative way…

🎨doing some kind of shadow work may help you to break free from those patterns keeping you stuck

I love using art to do self-exploratory shadow work because the subconscious mind communicates in symbols rather than in words and by using creativity you can unlock parts of yourself previously hidden☀️

Why is this important?

These hidden parts often contain wisdom and insight into your experiences and your present identity and behaviour

by observing these and communicating with them using art or journaling, you can break the cycle of self-sabotage self- pity, procrastination, envy etc. etc

if you’re a creative looking to understand yourself better in order to make better decisions and experience better outcomes in your life,

And you thrive in supported and live experiences with actual tools to help you learn more about yourself and discover the gems within you💎💎💎

Join my 7- day Shadow to Self mini-course- we start next month!

🖤Link in bio 🖤

21/05/2026

How well do you know your dark side?👹

Use art and journaling in this 7-day deep dive into your shadow, your hidden traits and patterns that keep you repeating negative cycles

Shadow work is probably one of the most powerful ways to develop self-awareness and discover a hidden force within you that you can use to change your life.

We have had mind-blowing discoveries and revelations in these small groups of shadow warriors, normal people uncovering extraordinary things about themselves using art and journaling 🖤

Inside this 7 day course you will be guided through 7 creative exercises inspired by the best minds in psychology, to help you uncover and transform unhelpful patterns that keep you stuck in:

💔Procrastination
💔People pleasing
💔Self-doubt
💔Stagnation on your goals

With a workbook to guide you, live intervention sessions each evening and a live workshop that focuses on integrating your shadow, this is going to be a mind blowing experience!

✅ learn about YOUR shadow
✅ discover your unique pattern that’s been holding you back and how to
✅change your perspective and move forward in your life
✅release emotions keeping you stuck
✅ transform your pain into your greatest strength

Learn more about Shadow to Self by checking out the link in my bio and taking advantage of the early bird offer🙌

We start on the first of June 🖤

18/05/2026

Sometimes life gets sh*tty…

And it’s difficult to know what to do with thoughts and feelings that feel like a tangled mess of overwhelm…in a healthy and proactive way that is…

Since I was a kid I’ve used art to help me manage and regulate my emotions- although I didn’t know that terminology at the time- it’s exactly what happens when you release complicated thoughts using art 🎨

We will be doing a 7-day creative exploration called Shadow to Self, using art and journaling to reflect and develop the Inner Self.🖤

early bird opens on Thursday- join the Create Calm Crew newsletter to learn more about it and get my free daily journal

😘

17/05/2026

The power of a pen!!

There are loads of studies that point to art’s power in calming the nervous system- done regularly and with focus it can really change your state of being.

Try it for yourself and witness your thoughts, your body and time itself dissolving 🙌😉

07/05/2026

I used to think struggling with motivation meant there was something wrong with me- like I just wasn’t cut out for doing my own thing as a self-employed artist/teacher.

That I was lazy, inconsistent or lacking discipline.

But a lot of the time procrastination is your mind protecting you from something you’re unaware of.

Sometimes there’s a part of you that feels:
overwhelmed
afraid to fail
afraid to be seen
emotionally exhausted
Etc. etc.

Until you become aware of THAT part of yourself, you’ll keep fighting your own mind instead of understanding it and working with it.

That’s what shadow work has really become for me.

Not endlessly digging into trauma and negative experiences

Just becoming MORE AWARE of myself in the moment, which includes thoughts and emotions.

Art helps me do that faster than thinking or talking ever does 💛

Have you tried shadow work? Did it involve art? Did it shift something for you , or did absolutely nothing? Let me know! 🙌

01/04/2026

Your thoughts dictate your behaviours and you’re to blame…

Hear me out. We are so quick to blame others and judge ourselves, for our emotional outbursts, resentment, our problem saying NO, for our people-pleasing, doom-scrolling, procrastinating…

For not being where we “should” be in life…

Your thoughts dictate your behaviour in very subtle and incremental ways…and you are the one propelling them! This is how:

The more you think a thought- the easier it is to think that thought

The more you think a thought, the stronger the neural connection becomes

The more it feels like FACT.

Can you control your thoughts??

No.

Not even the greatest monks in the world can control their thoughts. What they CAN do is let them pass without identifying, fixating or holding on to them.

What they DON’T do is BELIEVE their thoughts. Their thoughts have no weight , and so, disappear with the same speed they arrived.

“So I have to become a monk now?? That’s not gonna happen”

No you don’t need to become a monk, you don’t even need to meditate.

What you DO need to do is become more aware of what’s going on in your head and make slow changes to your thinking process.

Either that, or you will never change. Which is fine if you don’t want your life to change.

Journaling in a very specific way and making art in a very specific way can help you to become more aware of your thoughts and begin to change them. Then your behaviours change, then your life will change.

You are the ONLY one who can do this. No one else.

If you are ready to make positive changes in your life using your creativity and science-backed therapeutic art and journaling techniques…

Doors are open to my group for anxious creatives to create more calm and grounded lives with supportive, creative, weekly workshops for well-being.

Create Calm Crew is now open - for one week only 🤩

Learn more in the bio 😘

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