Curate your wholesome personal growth with interesting ideas and available resources
Ideas for curious minds and spiritual hearts
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Restorative Learning: Creating Your Own Personal Curriculum for Growth
Try restorative learning and creating your own personal curriculum to enjoy learning again, reduce screen time, and nourish your mind, body, and soul.
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Why You Should Create a Failure Résumé to Better Understand Yourself
Creating a failure résumé helps you reframe setbacks, process disappointment, and recognise personal growth. A compassionate guide to learning from what didn’t work out.
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Understanding Imposter Syndrome and How to Quieten the Voice
Imposter syndrome is a normal feeling. There are ways to quiet the voice, and use it to your advantage.
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Resources for mind, body, and soul growth
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Before You Go, You Need to Know Your Heart Will Always Be In South Africa
Celebrating Heritage Day from a far with a letter: Dear Past Me, before you go, you need to know your heart will always be in South Africa.
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Easily Doing Something Fun After Work To Feel Alive Again
A month of ideas to easily do something fun after work to feel alive again. For the most part, these after work activities are screen-free.
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10 Lessons For These Great 10 Years Together
A decade of togetherness is a significant milestone in any relationship. Naturally, celebrating 10 years with my partner has me all nostalgic, reflective, and feeling deeply grateful.
My Experience on The Artist’s Way
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My Reset Plan for a More Intentional Life (From Escapism to Purpose)
How I traded screen-time numbness for creativity and intention - my experience with The Artist’s Way (plus the songs, books, and messy steps that guided me home to myself).
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![A stylized illustration of a human brain divided into two halves. The left side features a black outline with mathematical formulas and diagrams in the background, representing logic and analytical thinking. The right side is colorful with splashes of paint in red, green, blue, yellow, and pink, symbolizing creativity and artistic expression.]()
First Steps on The Artist’s Way
Mapping my creative revival: Zuko’s redemption, cosmic libraries, and why cartography is the perfect metaphor for making art my own. An entry into my commonplace book: quotes, ideas, and observations I find interesting in the preface, introduction, basic principles, and basic tools chapters of The Artist’s Way.
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Shadow Artist No More? How Week 1 of The Artist’s Way Exposed My Creative Fears
Week 1 of The Artist’s Way asked me to confront my shadow artist (the part of me that craves creativity but fears exposure). Here’s how Schitt’s Creek, a tornado documentary, and a hard truth (I am the monster) helped me begin to recover a sense of safety and step into the light.
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Tracing My Creativity from Old Gnommish to an Unexpected PhD
Week 2 of The Artist’s Way had me tracing my creativity back to childhood, through documentaries, made-up languages, and a Tarot card’s message. Here’s how I’m learning to trust curiosity as my compass.
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Anger, Shame, and the Gifts of Growth in Synchronicity
Anger is a map, shame is a cage, and synchronicity is a nudge from the universe. Here’s how embracing these truths transformed my creative journey, and how they might reshape yours.
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