Have the pulls and responsibilities of life pushed your creativity to the back-burner?
You’re feeling overwhelmed…
Pressured to perform as partner, parent, breadwinner; it feels like you’re pleasing everyone else - at the expense of your own needs
Enjoying making things or being creative seems like a luxury you just can’t prioritize.
Now you’re feeling blocked and stuck.
Your personal and professional demands have increased to become all-encompassing draining all your creative energy.
You can’t remember the last time you felt the JOY of making something, just because…
With all of these responsibilities pulling at you, you feel like you might be close to burnout. Ideas used to bubble continuously, but now your well is dry
Outwardly juggling all the things, but you’re suffering inside…
Creativity has always been important, but recently you can’t justify the TIME for anything not directly related to urgent tasks pressing on you…
Your creativity used to fuel you, and it feels like you’re running on empty.
You dream of being present for family and friends - but you’re so busy - it feels like there’s no TIME for that!
You believe that living like this is starting to affect your mental health - things feel off-balance
You’re overwhelmed and feeling futile - questioning: how can you make art when ecosystems are collapsing?
You know you need to be creative, but you’re too burnt out to even begin, again
Take a breath,
press PAUSE…Now ask:
what’s really important in your life?
Imagine transforming yourself so that life & art were integrated
Are you ready to rise above the hustle & grind of your daily schedule?
ART & PLAY is a program designed around your need to live a creative life.
Begin or recover your personal creative practice. By focusing on PROCESS, instead of product, you can be free of outcomes and expectations, nimbly avoiding the perfectionism that usually accompany those.
Deirdre uses gentle guidance in the form of mindfulness practices and will start where you are - picking up a meditation practice or introducing you to tools that are new for you. Combining mindfulness with with easy analog art activities like collage and drawing will calm your nervous system and alleviate your sense of stress and anxiety
The Art & Play program is designed to fit WITHIN the confines of your everyday life
You’ll learn how to attend to all your responsibilities while integrating your need to express yourself creatively.
Prioritize what’s IMPORTANT in your life…
Art & Play encourages you to activate and connect to your individual creativity - responding to the needs YOU bring to the table with compassionate help, support and the practical toolset you need to cultivate your bravery and success.
An experienced teacher Deirdre will serve as your guide on this journey to experience an integrated life as a fully creative being
Find your Creative Flow
You can mindfully develop your artist practice even in the midst of your busy life…
Work with Deirdre and she’ll guide you through the process
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”
“During the Art & Play program I found a way to integrate my art into my busy life and this practice became visible to my family. Before I started working with Deirdre, my three children would have said I was someone who cleaned up and cooked for them - a Stay at Home Mom... now if anyone asks them they say:
”She’s an artist!””
“Deirdre is like a personal trainer for artists... She helped me loosen my chains!”