Author · Creativity coach · Teacher
I write, teach, and mentor people back toward the work only they can make.
you are the art you're making.
About
I've managed inside a Fortune 500 company, taught graduate school, worked as a psychotherapist, and hold a master's degree in psychology. For years I've worked with makers as a creativity director and group facilitator helping people find their way back to the work they keep circling.
The people who got better weren't the ones who found the right insight. They were the ones who made something. A drawing. A page. A room rearranged.
Creativity is our birthright as humans. It's how we show up to what we want to make, and how we want to live. I write about it, teach it, and walk with people who are ready to build it back into their lives.
Together with my family, I work and play in the Low Country of South Carolina.
The podcast I host
new every weekA weekly podcast that goes looking for the rule-breakers history almost lost. Poets, writers, painters, and ordinary radicals who changed their own world, and what their lives can tell us about making ours.
Books
Short meditations on the self we hide and the self we hand to other people. On risk, recognition, and the long work of being seen without performing.
"A friend who says, Oh, I know you. I see you. And what I see is good."Get the book →
A book about the myths that keep us from making, perfectionism and the long wait for readiness among them, and the road back to our own spark. Written for anyone who has been told, or has told themselves, that the creative life belongs to someone else.
Hear first through the newsletterWork with me
A working community for people trying to keep their creative lives honest under pressure to perform. Live sessions, prompts, and people actually making things alongside you.
Join the CollectiveA four-month private container for artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and makers. The specific, uncomfortable work of becoming the person who makes the thing.
Apply for mentorshipIntensive, small-group containers for people ready to go further than a feed post allows.
See the next immersionThe newsletter · on Substack
Truths you can't unsee for a life you can't unlive.
A weekly letter on life, love, and creativity. It's also where news of the new book, immersions, and anything else I'm building lands first.
Conversations
A few of the shows that have had me on. Grief, the shadow, love and leaving it, and what it takes to stay awake.
