Posts tagged mindfulness
SEEKING BALANCE ONLINE.

Is it possible to find a balance between living your life (and living it honestly) and sharing it online?

Maybe it's just the season, but it seems as though there's been a bit of a shift in the mood on instagram lately. A bit of reluctance, a bit of resistance - a push against the way it rewards us for consistency of engagement alone. Maybe we're tired of the formulas, tired of the quantity over quality mindset - I know I am.

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HOW I HANDLE IMPATIENCE IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS.

After making good progress for a few solid weeks, I finally got the ‘fear’ with my current writing work-in-progress. 

The fear for me comes in a few different forms, but this time it was the sheer overwhelm that comes when faced with the scale of crafting a whole novel. 

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HOW CAN MINIMALISM HELP WITH CREATIVITY?

When we do anything creative, we're asking ourselves to make lots and lots of decisions. Some of those are the obvious, visible kind (what colour should that be? Is that the right word?), and some are less tangible, the instinctual decisions we make without even realising (like when we place a mug on a flatlay photograph without really thinking about it). All of those little conscious and

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SETTING NEW YEAR HABITS INSTEAD OF RESOLUTIONS.

Setting habits and building positive routines is something I'm really interested in this year, particularly as a way to find a more realistic and practical solution towards achieving a goal. New year's resolutions are easy to give up - we fall at a hurdle a few miles along, we get discouraged by our progress and give up, or we just run out of

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