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The Gentle residency Plan

Week 1: Winter (Freeze / Nest)

February 10-13th, 2026
Let’s start where you are, maybe cozy, maybe cold, maybe numb. Perfect.
This is where safety is built and your nervous system exhales.

Goal: Create a sense of safety + gentle structure.
Rituals: Set up your comfort corner, sip something warm before you make, check in with your body before you check your phone.
→ Tiny, tender beginnings.

Week 2: Spring (Small Moves)

February 17-20th, 2026
You’re thawing. The sap is rising. Things want to move, but softly.

Goal: Take low-stakes, pressure-free creative action.
Rituals: Five-minute studio visits, little nudges of curiosity, nothing forced.
→ No perfection. Just permission.

Week 3: Summer (Hyperarousal / Play)

February 24-27th, 2026
You’ve got energy now, maybe even too much. Perfect again.
We’ll harness it without burning out.

Goal: Dance with the energy, not drown in it.
Rituals: Declare “permission to make a mess” days, and let things get deliciously imperfect.
→ Get lost in pleasure and pigment.

Week 4: Fall (Flow)

March 3-6th, 2026
The air shifts. You know yourself better now. Things start to click.

Goal: Integrate what you’ve discovered + savor your own rhythm.
Rituals: Reflect on what feels alive, follow what wants to keep unfolding.
→ Let the work show you what it wants to become.

Week 5: Return + Harvest

March 10-13th, 2026
You’ve circled the wheel once. You’ve thawed, bloomed, played, flowed.
Now we return, softer, braver, fuller.

Goal: Celebrate your courage + anchor your new creative rhythm.
Rituals: Create your own “season wheel,” mark your growth, and honour your new cycle.
→ Harvest your growth. Show yourself how far you’ve come.

Daily Guiding Structure (5–10 minutes max)

No hustle. No overwhelm. Just small, consistent, embodied actions:

Check-in: one reflection question (based on the season)
Micro-brave action: one tiny creative step
Closing ritual: gratitude + grounding for your body

That’s it.
Five to ten minutes a day to thaw your creativity, find your flow, and feel alive again in your art. Let’s go baby.

Residency Timeframe

Starts February 1oth – March 13th, 2026
Limited spots to keep it intimate.

⌇READY TO THAW out?

Come home to your art.

Let softness be your discipline.
Let five minutes a day become a movement.

Yes this is for the artist with a life, juggling all the things. And accidentally neglecting ourselves….

❤︎ Enroll now
and begin your gentle return from freeze → flow.

Early Bird Bonus ❤︎ Biweekly Tip Tuesdays

Enrol before Jan 1st, 2026, receive 6 bonus Tip Tuesday LIVE lectures. Over the next few months, I’ll be hosting a series of Tip Tuesdays, short, nourishing lectures to help artists move from freeze to flow.

These are for the moments when you feel stuck, unmotivated, overwhelmed, or unsure how to keep your creative energy alive in a world that often feels too much.

Every two weeks, beginning December 2nd, I’ll be sharing one grounded, heart-centered talk on how to reconnect with your creative power:

✨ How to have self-compassion when you feel frozen

✨ How to stay motivated when the world is crumbling

✨ How to set boundaries (with family + others) and redirect that energy into your art and business

✨ How to feel inspired again in the studio

✨ Money: finding flow in your business and creative income

✨ How to experience flow in your collector relationships

These six sessions are part of the lead-up to my Freeze to Flow Artist Residency, opening in February 2026, a deep dive into healing, artmaking, and business through embodied creative practice.

join now

a shared vocabulary

of gentleness, courage, and cyclical growth.

These language anchors will live with you through the residency

Microbravery

Tiny, courageous acts that shift everything.
Microbravery is what happens when you show up for five minutes instead of none. When you make one mark, send one email, clean one brush.
It’s not about dramatic leaps, it’s about building trust with your creative self, one small yes at a time.
Each microbrave act says: I’m here. I’m trying. I matter.

Loving Structure

The kind of structure that supports, not suffocates.
Think of it as scaffolding for your freedom.
We use gentle prompts, short check-ins, and rhythmic routines to hold you, so your nervous system feels safe enough to play.
Loving structure is the difference between “I should” and “I can’t wait.”

Soft Returns

Gentle re-entries into your art, after avoidance, overwhelm, or exhaustion.
A soft return is how we come back without shame.
You don’t have to crash through the door; you can tiptoe in.
Make one soft gesture, take one sip of color, one deep breath in the studio.
Each return counts. Each return is sacred.

Cycle, Not Ladder

Creativity isn’t a climb. It’s a circle.
There’s no finish line, no final mastery, just seasons of expansion and contraction, rest and bloom.
If you loop back to winter, it doesn’t mean you failed.
It means you’re alive, evolving, deepening.
We don’t fall off the path here, we return to it, again and again, softer each time.