Creativity

For When Life Gets Too Practical

Creativity isn't a talent reserved for a gifted few. It's a way of being in the world. A way to explore what you're feeling, reconnect with yourself, and invite more lightness into your everyday life.

We know it can feel intimidating — especially if somewhere along the way you were told you weren't good at it. Maybe school critiques still echo. Maybe you haven't made anything in years. Maybe you just never saw yourself as a creative person.

But here's what we'd like to suggest: creativity isn't about outcomes. It's about aliveness. It's in the scribbled page, the playlist that lifts your mood, the moment you lose track of time while making something with your hands. It helps us access emotion, imagination and healing in ways that words often can't.

This pathway is here to help you find your way back in. Not to make you into an artist. Just to help you find the kind of making that meets you where you are.

Culture Therapy

The Books, Films and Podcasts That Made Us Want to Make Something

The best thing about culture that's about creativity is that it tends to be contagious. These are our hand-picked books, films, TV shows and podcasts on creativity, making, culture and expression — the ones that sent us straight to our sketchbooks, notebooks and kitchens the moment they were finished.

Pottery studios, creative workshops, independent galleries, writing groups, arts spaces and more. Hand-picked places across the US and UK where making something is the whole point — and where you don't need to know what you're doing to walk through the door.

Places to Make, Do and Discover

Guidebook

From The Journal

Honest writing on the quiet joy of making things. Essays, ideas and practical inspiration for anyone who wants to be more creative but isn't sure where to start — because the scribbled page counts, the awkward kitchen dance counts, and all of it counts more than you think.

Guide to Life
Creativity as a Mental Health Tool: How Art Can Support Wellbeing and Self-Trust
Creativity as a Mental Health Tool: How Art Can Support Wellbeing and Self-Trust

Feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start? Discover how creativity can support mental health, ease anxiety and build self-trust in everyday life, even if you don’t think you’re creative.

What to Do When You Feel Creatively Empty
What to Do When You Feel Creatively Empty

How to Reclaim Your Energy, One Small Practice at a Time

Creative Self-Care For When No-one is Watching
Creative Self-Care For When No-one is Watching

Feeling stuck or disconnected from yourself? Discover how creative self-care can restore emotional wellbeing — and why creativity might be exactly what you need during life transitions.

How to Reignite Creative Joy When You're Burnt Out
How to Reignite Creative Joy When You're Burnt Out

Feeling burnt out or disconnected from your creativity? Discover how reconnecting with joy and creating for love—not likes—can restore your sense of purpose, peace, and play. Featuring insights from our podcast conversation with Emily Charlotte Powell on new wellbeing podcast A Thought I Kept.

How to Move Through Creative Self-Doubt and Reconnect With Your Purpose
How to Move Through Creative Self-Doubt and Reconnect With Your Purpose

Feeling stuck or creatively disconnected? Here's how to rebuild your confidence, find meaning in the uncertainty, and return to the creative work that matters.

The Creativity Cure | How creativity can positively impact your well-being
The Creativity Cure | How creativity can positively impact your well-being

Learn how to fold more creative activities into your everyday life, so that you can feel happier.

How journaling can positively impact your well-being
How journaling can positively impact your well-being

Discover how expressive writing can boost mental health and creativity. Learn how this simple practice helps deepen awareness, process emotions, and unleash imagination. Explore key exercises for immediate well-being benefits.

Isolation Inspiration: 5 Times The Internet Really Pulled Through This Week
Isolation Inspiration: 5 Times The Internet Really Pulled Through This Week

Comedians are performing, children’s authors are reading their books, musicians are putting on concerts in their living rooms (!!) people are CONNECTING in any way that they can, all in the name of banding together to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. (I know it’s the internet, and social media at that, but there is a real beauty here and I hope it is not lost on us.)

Lost at Home: Prompts for thriving while social-distancing
Lost at Home: Prompts for thriving while social-distancing

We’ve put together a quick guide for how to maintain your mental wellbeing while social-distancing.

Shelf Help | In conversation with Toni Jones
Shelf Help | In conversation with Toni Jones

We talk to the British journalist Toni Jones, Founder of Shelf Help about the bookclub that became a global movement and why its her mission to make self-help accessible, collaborative and cool.

The Saviors We Never Knew We Needed
The Saviors We Never Knew We Needed

But the beauty in this moment, if there is any to be found, is that we’re beginning to accept that mental health isn’t just something to be addressed within the stark walls of our therapist’s office. We’re beginning to look to more than the typical health care provider to carry us through. We’re beginning to see that, maybe, there is healing to be found elsewhere? Maybe there are solutions and connections and answers in our everyday lives? Maybe music is here to save us, after all.

NOIR CITY | Dark City Wanderings
NOIR CITY | Dark City Wanderings

It’s like a religious revival tent meeting, but for cynics. Instead of their Sunday best, they wear their vintage 1940s finest. Rather than speaking in tongues, they wax on and on about who played what character in whatever desperately underrated classic. And Communion comes in the form of a big dose of black and white on the Castro Theatre’s massive screen.

All Journal Entries
All Journal Entries

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