Today’s Blog is all about how using colour can improve your well-being, provide new creative challenges and even help to plan your week…it’s time to get creative with colour as we head into the Autumn season and freshen things up!
Category: accountability, Art, art activities, art therapy, autumn, blogger, blogging, Cabin, cancer, cancer awareness, challenges, change, chemo, creative ambitions, creative business, creative community, creative goals, creative hobbies, creative inspiration, Creative journey, creative role-model, creative skills, creative thinking, creative writing, creativetribe, curiosity, goal setting, Goals, ideas, inspiration, inspire, Instagram, Interiors, motivation, Mum life, opportunity, Planning, planning goals, planning projects, Self-belief, Self-care, soothing, summer, summer project, Summerhouse, tips, Top Tips, Uncategorized, uncertainty, Value, wellbeingTags: autumn, colour therapy, colours, creative challenge, creative challenges, creativity, creativity blog, new term, new term feeling, Pinterest, Planning, planning with colour, seasons, seasons changin, september, uk blogger, UK seasons
Taking a good look at how your childhood helps to shape your creative journey and applying that lesson to our own children and families…it’s time to have some Summer adventures! Plus there’s another creative challenge in here for you, this week all about animals and pets!
Category: Adventures, Adventurous spirit, Creative, creative ambitions, creative business, creative children, creative community, creative dreams, creative goals, creative hobbies, creative inspiration, creative investment, Creative journey, creative kids, creative role-model, creative skills, creative thinking, creative writing, creative writing tips, creativetribe, curiosity, energy, families, family activities, family life, family values, grateful, gratitude, gratitude attitude, great conversation, Home, home comforts, inspiration, inspire, inspiring stories, journey, keeping connected, keeping happy, keeping positive, kids, kids activities, kids opportunities, learning, let them shine, limiting thoughts, mental health, mental health awareness week, mental wellbeing, Mum life, nature, nature therapy, new blog, new blog wordpress, new challenge, parenting, passion, perfectionism, personal experience, places, positive outlook, practice, process, psychologies magazine, real life, reillience, school holidays, seasonal, Self-belief, Self-care, summer, summer project, support, support team, therapy, thinking creatively, Uncategorized, wellbeing, what's important?, women, women in business, writer, Writing, writing excercises, writing goals, writing warm-upTags: Adventures, childhood, Creative journey, creativity, experiences, families, family fun, family holidays, holiday, inspiration, life, relationships, shaping creativity, summer holidays, wordpress
A light-hearted look at life in lock-down with a house full when you are trying to get your work done! It’s not easy is it? But we are all in the same boat and we can get through this together, here are some tips for a calmer working week!
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I know that some people are finding it really hard to motivate themselves in their creative work, so in the week of mental health awareness, I think we need to practice some kindness to ourselves, others and access the wonderful creative support out there at the moment. Hopefully it will give you the boost that you need…
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I’m nearly at the end of chemo and on one insomnia fuelled night I worked out all the medical statistics around treatment! It’s a mountain of numbers and care, for which I’ll be forever grateful…x
Category: challenges, chemo, chemotherapy, family life, journey, life, Mum life, normal life, real life, struggles in life, support team, team, teamwork, Uncategorized, writing lifeTags: at the end, blogging, cancer, Cancer chat, celebration, challenges, chemo, chemotherapy, corona, Covid 19, end of treatment, Hodgkins Lymphoma, inspiration, jourmey, let me out, life, lymphoma, milestone, milestones, over it, real life, six months, statistics, wordpress
This week I’m delving deep into how we perceive and feel about different hobbies and what type we’d choose if we absolutely had to! It’s an interesting conversation…
Category: Art, art activities, art therapy, author, chemo, chemotherapy, Creative, creative ambitions, creative business, creative children, creative community, creative dreams, creative goals, creative hobbies, creative inspiration, creative skills, creative thinking, curiosity, Dr Chattergee, dream, exercise, family activities, family life, flow state, focus, head space, hobbies, idea, ideas, inspiration, inspire, inspiring stories, Instagram, journey, learning, learning something new, mental health, mind chatter, motivation, Mum life, new blog, new blog wordpress, opportunity, passion, physical hobbies, Uncategorized, wow, wowed, writer, writing goalsTags: advice, Art, art activities, blogging, creative hobbies, creative inspiration, creativity, exercise, hobbies, In the flow, inspiration, pass-times, spare-time, tips, wordpress
Posted on January 22, 2020
by The Curious Creative
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And it’s good news…an update on my chemo journey so far…
Category: cancer, cancer awareness, Cancer chat, challenges, chemo, chemotherapy, family life, Getting through it, Hair Loss, Hodgkins Lymphoma, keeping positive, life, mental health, Mum life, positive outlook, UncategorizedTags: blogger, Cancer chat, cancer journey, challenges, chemo, chemotherapy, doctors, Hodgkins Lymphoma, keep going, life, lymphoma, medical staff, new blog, nhs, nurses, positive outlook, update, wordress
Posted on November 3, 2019
by The Curious Creative
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A look in on what’s being going on over the last 7 weeks including lots of health tests and a diagnosis I’m facing tomorrow; this is to help others going through anything similar, and how I’ve gotten through these limbo weeks…
Category: cancer, cancer awareness, Cancer chat, challenges, family life, life, lymphoma, Mum life, struggles in life, support, symptoms, that C word, tips, Top Tips, Uncategorized, writing lifeTags: cancer, Cancer chat, challenges, family life, health is wealth, health matters, life, lymphoma, new territory, support, tips, Top Tips, unchartered waters, what matters
Accountability is no longer a dirty word, it can help you grow your business, increase your skills and confidence and help you to truly value your work. Here I explain how…
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Posted on September 9, 2019
by The Curious Creative
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When faced with periods of uncertainty, do you stand still, forge through it, or might it be healthier to pause and take a closer look at what’s going on and perhaps take your creative talents to a higher level? This week I dig deeper into fears and learn quite a lot about myself in the process.
Category: accountability, aims and objectives, challenges, checking in, courage, Creative, creative ambitions, creative business, creative skills, creative thinking, creative writing, creativetribe, curiosity, dhildhood challenges, drama, entrepreneurs, families, family values, fear, focus, gratitude attitude, health, identity, independent bookshops, inspiration, inspiring stories, learning, lets talk more, life, light bulb, light bulb moments, lightbulb, limiting thoughts, mental health, mind chatter, motivation, Mum life, new blog, new blog wordpress, opportunity, over thinking, overwhelm, parenting, personal experience, Planning, proud, refelcting, Self-belief, Self-care, self-made, selfcare is healthcare, start-up, stress, struggles in life, support, therapy, tips, Uncategorized, uncertainty, Value, values and beliefs, wellbeing, workshop, workshops, wow, wowed, writer, Writing, writing life, you can do thisTags: advice, blogger, blogging, emotional writing, friends, help yourself, look back, stories, tapping into emotions, the stories we tell, uncertain times, uncertainty, wordpress, writers life, writing about hard things, writing life
