Welcome to…
One-on-one support for Artists, Writers, and Creative Spirits seeking clarity and courage in their creative practice.
Whatever’s standing in the way of your creative aspirations, let’s alchemize it together and turn it into fuel for your creative prowess and purpose!
Sound familiar?
📚 You’ve got three different notebooks open on your desk, each filled with brilliant ideas you started last month. But now you feel more paralyzed than inspired. You’re spinning your wheels, wondering if any of these ideas really have legs, and worse — if your creative work actually has value. You want to focus and dive in, but your fear of choosing the “wrong thing” to pick up keeps you from choosing at all.
🌀 You’re quite accomplished in your craft, and you’ve cultivated success and visiblity as an artist (yay!)… But your work recently took a strange left turn. Suddenly, you’re in new territory, called to work with new genres, approaches, or content that feel exciting and expansive, but also vulnerable and risky. So, on top of trying to create the thing, you’re also trying to find your way — wondering how to balance intuitive nudges against practical and professional considerations.
👾 You sit down to open your manuscript, but before you even read the first sentence, you feel that familiar tightening in your chest — The Cringe. It’s full-body physical avoidance. You’d rather do the dishes, answer boring emails, or scrub the baseboards than write “badly” or dig yourself deeper in the creative rut you can’t seem to find your way out of. You desperately want to feel the joy of creativity again, but your novel feels like a stubborn monster you’re afraid to touch.
❤️🩹 Or maybe you’ve spent too long on the creative sidelines cheering others on, and it’s time you jumped in the ring, but closing that gap feels super scary…
⚔️ Or your creative life feels like a rug that hasn’t been shaken out in years… you wish a fairy godmother would swoop in, wave her wand, and get your creativity sparkling again…
⚰️ Or you find yourself creating what you think will sell or impress others, while the ideas that truly call to you stay buried and hidden…
What if instead…?
🕰️ You regularly block out time for creativity, and when that time arrives, you plop down at your desk, work a short ritual, and immediately feel the pull toward one specific project. You’re eager to dive in and curious to see where the process leads. After two hours in flow, you close your practice, feeling refreshed and accomplished, able to pivot to other things, confident that you can drop back in tomorrow, or whenever you’re ready.
☕️ Opening your manuscript feels like meeting an old friend for coffee (not tackling a rat’s nest!). Imagine noticing a “missing piece” in your draft and feeling a spark of curiosity (instead of full-body recoil and self-recrimination). You find yourself playing with sentences just to see what happens, knowing the work is already good enough because you trust the process — and yourself.
✨ You quit your job as creative spectator! Now, when inspiration strikes, you hardly ever let it slip away. Instead, you USE it. You pull out your sketch pad or write a poem, not to impress a major publisher, but because you finally believe creativity is a way of life, not a frivolous someday fantasy.
🌈 You become so obsessed with the novel you’re writing that you actually avoid chores so you can write instead! Imagine the sense of play returning — the kind you felt as a kid — where the world falls away and the only thing that matters is the reality you’re building with nothing but words and your rich imagination. You finish your first draft not because you toughed it out, but because you found your way back what to lights you up.
🫶🏻 You see your artwork within an “ancestral arc,” a creative legacy, not a performance that ought to please everyone. Imagine an artistic process where pulling a few Tarot cards or enacting a morning ritual isn’t just a “quirky habit,” but essential to honoring and connecting with the sacred power of Creativity. Now, you move from a place of stewardship (not proving), allowing Creativity to guide you as a reliable collaborator.
Ready to turn what’s holding you back into something weightless, even useful… something that no longer keeps you from your creative dreams?
Looking for a creative refresh you can do mostly on your own, with community support woven in?
Check out Creative Channel! It might be just what you need.
Struggling with Creativity is so common, it’s honestly 💔…
If you find yourself caught in endless cycles of overthinking, or retreating from your creative projects as soon as they start to feel real, please know: This is a natural and common response to a culture that extracts our Creativity for profit while treating personal creative desires as unserious and wasteful.
We’re taught to compartmentalize ourselves in order to succeed — so we masquerade as rule-following “doers” from 9 to 5, while keeping our intuitive, mystical selves tucked away for the weekends. This fragmentation is exhausting, demoralizing, and soul-sucking. It poisons our Creativity. We create for the wrong reasons, walk away, or find ourselves making work we don’t really care about.
When we try to build a creative life using someone else’s blueprint, the gears naturally grind to a halt. Which means: you’re not lacking in discipline, nor a hopeless procrastintor. You’re simply exhausted, confused, and spun sideways from too many years creating in a construct that doesn’t honor your actual nature — or spirit!
My approach helps you cut through — and alchemize! — the noisy capitalist propaganda we’ve all internalized so you can honor yourself, your talents, and what truly moves you.
In my work with clients, we don’t steamroll emotions to get to a deadline — we stay with them and get curious, exploring the energy they hold and working with it so it can be moved or used.
We call up a blended map of craft-based skill (technique, refinement, structure, process) AND mystical inquiry (Tarot, somatic work, ritual, myth) to alchmize what itsn’t working and build a creative practice that feels dynamic, powerful, and exciting.
By integrating intuition with practical action, you’ll go from fraught and frustrated to open and excited. You’ll stop focusing on “getting it right” and start focusing on becoming the person who creates with ease, courage, intention, and care.
How It Works…
✨ It’s pretty simple! (But also magical.) ✨
I meet with clients over Zoom in one 75-minute session per month. (Clients can request more frequent sessions at an increased rate.)
In each session, we focus on your goals, challenges, and emerging ideas, tending to the larger of vision of where you’re trying to go while working out the inner complications that arise along the way.
In between sessions via voice-note and text, you can share wins and questions, seek advice and guidance, and receive support, prompts, and practices to help you navigate day-to-day challenges as you approach creativity in new and dynamic ways.
(Clients with writing projects can also share up to 15 double-spaced pages for review between sessions.)
A 3-month commitment is required, with the option to renew 3 months at a time. Clients are billed monthly at a sliding-scale rate between $333 and $444 / month.
When you book your free Creative Breakthrough Call, we’ll explore what you’re struggling with, what you’d like to change and create, how you can start alchemizing NOW, and whether we’re a good fit to work together.
Hi, I’m Cecily — your creative guide (with Capricorn pride)…
I’ve been supporting and working with creative people for nearly 20 years — teaching creative writing to people of all ages, working as a book coach and manuscript doula, running creative programming for schools, libraries, and community organizations, and helping people explore the mystical (and practical!) side of Creativity.
In my work with clients, I draw on my experience across modalities in the creative and healing arts: the nuanced craft of writing (I have an MFA in fiction and years of experience as a journalist); the path to publication (I’ve helped many people get there!); the tight-rope act of bringing art into the marketplace (I’ve been running my own business for 8 years); and the richness of mystical and esoteric inquiry (Tarot, ritual, dreams, astrology, somatics).
I’ve got a whole lotta Capricorn in my astro signature, and I wield this like a superpower — holding grounded, steady space for my clients, and tending to their grand visions while identifying smaller actions that bring those visions to life over time. I’m cognizant of trends in creative industries, real-life constraints, systemic conditions, and how these impact our creative journeys. (I’m also trained and certified with the Trauma of Money Institute).
I also make sure we tend to the less tangible aspects of your creative journey — how you’re transformed by the creative process, deeper layers of meaning in your work, the callings that pull you forward, and the constellation of ideas, myths, and traditions you’re working in (and reinventing!).
If this approach sounds refreshing and full of possibility, I’d love to connect, hear about your journey, and explore how I can help.
Tales of creative alchemy…
Here’s a sample of what clients have shared about our work together.:
💜 I gained a whole new perspective on what it means to be in relationship with my creativity. I shifted my perspective away from the capitalist-centric mode of high productivity and selling out just to sell. Now I want to make for me, and it turns out people want to buy my art regardless! I don't feel like I'm selling my soul to social media for likes and validation. Now I use Instagram as a tool to stay connected with other artists and learn about upcoming opportunities that excite me, rather than using as a tool for comparison. ~ Maddie
💜 Before my work with Cecily, I wasn't creatively brave. I secretly and passionately wished I was able to participate in the world in a creative way, but I had a lifetime of very limiting thinking and adherence to societal nonsense. I suspected all of this was holding me back, but as we dug in and started really dissecting what was going on, I was able to navigate all this internal and external programming in a new way and begin the work of casting off the old and walking into a present where I am drawing and writing and making, and it's so much fun. ~ Brandi
💜 Cecily helped me set aside my corporate-world expectations and asked me to slow down and not apply past practices to the current situation. She drew my feelings out of my writing, when I tended to be dismissive, stoic, or clinical. She was flexible, consistent, clear, thoughtful, and very effective at steering me forward on a new path — starting from the beginning. ~ Ashley
💜 I feel more confident, have more peace of mind and ease. Our coaching helped me in WAY more areas of life than just my book writing, as I originally intended. In fact, I think it helped me understand myself, my habits, my life's path better. Which in turn will help my writing. It's almost like what brought me to Cecily was seeking help with my book, but then I realized it's more about understanding myself first. ~ Maria
💜 Cecily provided numerous tools to help me treat myself with kindness and move toward a place of openness, which comes more easily now. During our time together, I made significant progress on the revision of my novel, began healing old wounds, and processing old grief. Above all, I discovered more safety, freedom, and joy in my writing process. ~ Kat
💜 Finding creative inspiration was never my problem, but I'd often become overwhelmed with ideas, almost paralyzed by them at times. I often had difficulty deciding where to focus my energy and how to best achieve goals, leaving me with a sense that I was spinning my wheels. Cecily helped me assess my actions against my goals. She got to know me and my work and her approach to coaching me was bespoke and personalized, without the generic platitudes too often encountered in the coaching realm. ~ Ami
What we’re tending to…
👁️🗨️ YOUR VISION & DESIRE: We can’t create what we haven’t imagined first, and we’re rarely encouraged to follow our strange, unique ideas and callings. So we explore what kind of creative life you want for yourself, and what you feel called to create. We put language and image to these desires, creating a map to carry you forward.
👾 YOUR BLOCKS & STRUGGLES: What keeps you from creating? What happens when you set out to create, then stop? What feelings and thoughts arise before you back away? This is the part where the alchemy happens! But we move through these questions with care and curiosity, meeting your capacity for change in the moment.
🌳 YOUR PROCESS: How do you like create? What routines, rituals, and timing support your creative practice? This is where you stop following the formulas and listen to your own rhythms, setting yourself up for a creative practice that feels contained, intentional, and ongoing.
🫶🏻 YOUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY: Who are you connected to? Where and how can you nourish your creative practice through relationship? Who do you imagine your work is for (if not just you), and how would you like to share it? Community keeps us going and gives our art context and meaning.
✨ YOUR MAGIC: This one is super-fun! We pull cards, consult your astrology, and talk about dreams, synchronicities, guides supporting you “on the other side,” and how you’re being led in a FELT way — intuitively and spiritually.
💖 YOUR WHY: What does creativity mean to you? Why do you fight for it? We gather more clarity around what you’re protecting and cultivating, and why it’s meaningful to you beyond external forces, pressures, and influence. Knowing this why is critical to a rich, lifelong relationship with Creativity.
I’m here to help you…
+ Reunite with Creativity after a long pause
+ Move through a big project that’s got you nervous-cited and overwhelmed
+ Find your ideal audience and make meaningful connections
+ Refresh your creative business and sell your art soulfully
+ Detox from the competitive Kool-Aid of academic arts programs
+ Dance with Creativity in ways you never have before!
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Creative Alchemy is for creators, craftspeople, dreamers & mystics who…
+ See creativity as an essential part of life, yet struggle to fully embrace it.
+ Want to explore what’s holding them back from creative flow & momentum.
+ Seek a strong ally to back their creative work through every part of the process.
+ Are hobbyists, side-hustlers, and creative professionals — all levels welcome!
+ Want to make the world a more beautiful place through art, beauty, and community.
In your free Creative Alchemy Call, we’ll explore your current relationship with Creativity and your desires around how it could be different. I’ll ask questions and listen… Then I’ll sketch out a path forward — a way for us to work together and alchemize your creative blocks into passion, play, and momentum. We’ll also talk about the logistics of working together, and discuss what pricing works best, given your needs and financial considerations.