The sensory richness of fiber arts makes it particularly effective in grounding individuals in the here and now, fostering a state of relaxed engagement that facilitates letting go.| createmefree.substack.com
In fiber arts especially, medium choice is not just about what we want to make. It is about what we need to feel.| createmefree.substack.com
Six-step daily crochet exercise with tips and ideas for self-improvement around issues of insomnia| createmefree.substack.com
And the posts of theirs that I highly recommend you check out!| Create Me Free
Productivity, pause, and the body’s quiet knowledge| Create Me Free
Dear artist who believes you must be either creative or practical, never both,| Create Me Free
This is part of a longer booklet that I put together, which I wanted to offer to you today:| Create Me Free
Focus on completion in a quick amount of time allowing you to let go of perfection and even attention to detail.| createmefree.substack.com
To give oneself permission to sleep deeply, to nap, to step away from constant striving is to resist a system that equates human worth with productivity.| Create Me Free
Rather than adding more to your creative to-do list, these approaches help you work with your humanity instead of against it.| Create Me Free
I offer Creative Health Blueprints where I review your existing writing and assist you in understanding some of the patterns where art and health intersect for you.| Create Me Free
Just sharing a little of my personal visual art today ...| createmefree.substack.com
You are navigating a delicate balance between necessity and expression, and that is a truly brave undertaking.| createmefree.substack.com
You don’t have to force a return. You don’t have to go fast. You don’t have to produce a thing to be an artist. You already are one.| createmefree.substack.com
Plus the nine biggest things I took away from a Gestalt class, some of which still make sense to me years later| createmefree.substack.com
Dear artist who thinks that taking breaks means you're not serious about your craft,| Create Me Free
A quick visual and a free PDF download| Create Me Free
Beyond the Mind-Body Split: Your Body as a Creative Partner| createmefree.substack.com
How crochet became my unexpected teacher in nervous system regulation| Create Me Free
When Hands, Arms, and Bodies Change: Reimagining Movement in Creative Practice| createmefree.substack.com
What Ten Artists Across Time and Culture Teach Us About Resistance, Fragility, and Freedom| createmefree.substack.com
Which image resonates with you today? That might be a good journal prompt ...| createmefree.substack.com
Your authenticity is in honoring your truth, whatever that looks like today.| createmefree.substack.com
The idea of continuing your art, let alone finding joy in it, can feel daunting when your body or mind demands new ways of working, or when accessibility becomes a daily negotiation.| createmefree.substack.com
It's a profound paradox that often accompanies the creative journey: the very act of putting your heart into something can ignite a powerful fear.| createmefree.substack.com
Your creative energy follows its own logic, its own rhythm, its own seasonal flow.| createmefree.substack.com
When flesh meets canvas, when breath meets song, when trembling hands meet clay ... the materials we choose to make art are never neutral| Create Me Free
Gill’s practice was compulsion and prayer, healing and haunting. It teaches us that art is not always expression of confidence or clarity. Sometimes it is persistent repetition against collapse.| Create Me Free
Somatic memory is not metaphor. It is lived experience that does not need to be named in order to be present. And creative work is often shaped by that memory long before we become conscious of it.| createmefree.substack.com
Your body is information about what your creative practice needs to become sustainable and authentic for who you are now, not who you used to be.| createmefree.substack.com
Why I Read Your Writing Instead of Asking Questions: The Archive Method Explained| createmefree.substack.com
Where Art Meets Psychology. We are not all "tortured geniuses" and art isn't always therapy but there is so much richness and connection and magic in the in between. Let's play, communicate, and learn there. Click to read Create Me Free, by Kathryn Vercillo, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| createmefree.substack.com
Uncover the Hidden Connections Between Your Health and Your Art Through a Written Analysis (and optional 1:1 call) Through the Lens of My Unique 6-part Framework| createmefree.substack.com
“Tell me about when art has been difficult or complicated for your mental health, rather than solely beneficial.”| createmefree.substack.com
How do mental health symptoms impact/alter/inspire creative business/ reception by others?| createmefree.substack.com
How do depression, mania, anxiety, stress, and other conditions affect the ability to create?| createmefree.substack.com
13 creatives respond in their own unique ways about how the mind impacts the creative process ...| createmefree.substack.com
Many people say "art is therapy" but what exactly do people mean by that? Here are some incredible responses.| createmefree.substack.com
How does the content of what you create change because of your mental state, life circumstances, the way that your brain works?| createmefree.substack.com
Themes range from imposter syndrome and feelings of inadequacy to finding liberation and self-acceptance through creative practice| createmefree.substack.com
Sometimes mental or physical health symptoms require a change in medium or in the scale of or approach to a favorite medium ...| createmefree.substack.com
Pain slows time. Sometimes all we can do is slow down with it. Prompts and exercises to create within illness.| createmefree.substack.com
Not all creative work made during illness is seeking resolution. Sometimes it is seeking only to mark the moment, to capture what it feels like to be in the middle of something unnameable.| createmefree.substack.com
4 artist letters, 8 PDF downloads, 12 essays, 1 interview, 7 cross-posts and lots of notes ...| createmefree.substack.com
Instead of demanding a huge surge of energy for a major project, micro-creative acts (a quick sketch, a few lines of poetry, a spontaneous melody) offer gentle, consistent stimulation.| createmefree.substack.com
If you miss a day, skip a week, or scrap a project, that does not erase you as an artist.| createmefree.substack.com
How to measure creative growth on your own terms, even when your body won't cooperate| createmefree.substack.com
Why creativity sometimes feels flat, and how to gently reconnect with your artistic self| createmefree.substack.com
Redefining resistance, fatigue, and creative inconsistency through a compassionate lens| createmefree.substack.com
An overview of the framework that I use to explore this topic along with examples| createmefree.substack.com
60 Interviews, Organized by Primary Art Form| createmefree.substack.com
A month of exploring art and mental health across an amazing array of Substack pages!| createmefree.substack.com
