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Creative coaching for writers, artists, and tenderhearted creatives

who want more self-trust, more room to explore, and less masking.

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Because your creative life is your real life

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Because your creative life is your real life 😻

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Your creative instincts deserve your attention

Yet somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to ignore them.

Our time and energy got swept up in comparison culture, one-size-fits-all images of success, and benchmarks that place productivity above all else. We came to hold ourselves to other people’s standards at the expense of our own.

But your creative instincts are still in you, waiting to be surfaced. And with them: your needs, wants, and unique quality of attention—that signature way in which only you can look at the world.

“Working with Sarah is like entering a room where you can see your own creativity vividly. If it feels overwhelming or scary, she’ll guide you gently through it, pointing out all the beautiful things and nudging you towards the parts you’ve not yet dared to explore. She’ll take care of you in a way that makes you feel seen, heard and understood, while also challenging you to explore new parts of yourself.

Through Sarah’s guidance, your relationship with your creativity will grow and bloom and take forms you didn’t even know it could.”

– Astrid

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You might be here because creativity feels farther away than it used to.

Maybe you sit down to write, only to be pulled off course by doubt, pressure, or feelings of being an imposter.

Or you’re exhausted from trying to balance your dreams and ideas with your limited energy and fluctuating capacity.

Maybe you’re neurodivergent or highly sensitive, and traditional creative advice has never fit your brain & heart.

And what you want is this: for creativity to feel accessible and joyful again—energizing, sustainable, and alive.

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Your creative practice is something you can hold and feel held by, without forcing it—or you—into place.

There can be steadiness, even in uncertain seasons. More trust in your own pace. And more clarity about what does and doesn’t matter to you.

A renewed creative practice can be the turning point where you stop abandoning yourself and resume a deeper connection with your voice and vision.

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Deep, ongoing support for writers and creative humans who want to build a more sustainable, trusting relationship with their ways of making and their work.

1:1 Creative Coaching

This is a space for slowing down and getting wildly curious. Together, we’ll uncover more sustainable practices, remove road blocks, and make space for authentic growth, so you can work on what you’re called to.

The poetry manuscript, the Substack newsletter, the podcast, the personal essay, the chapbook, or the vision you don’t have a name for yet: let’s make room for what matters most.

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“Sarah is a dream to work with. In my time with her, I developed a strategy and mindset for completing my first manuscript that enabled me to meet deadlines and feel confident that I was delivering quality material.

Our time together was highly personalized and I learned so much about myself, both as an author and as a creative human being.”

– Maria Minnis, Author of Tarot for the Hard Work

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What’s your project?

There are so many ways to write, make, and cultivate a life with creativity at the center.

You might be trying to…

  • return to a practice you’ve drifted away from

  • finish or begin a book project

  • integrate an identity shift that calls for self-expression

  • reconnect with inspiration after burnout

  • navigate creativity alongside a full, complex life

Wherever you are: let’s begin there.

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Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m a lifelong writer, poet, and trauma-informed creative coach & mentor.

After years working in housing advocacy, youth services, and community mental health, I found myself returning again and again to one truth:

Creative work isn’t separate from the rest of our lives.

It's woven through our identities and nervous systems, our histories and hopes, and our capacity to imagine different futures for ourselves and each other.

Today, I work with writers, neurodivergent humans, and sensitive souls who want to build creative lives that honor the full scope of who they are—not who they’ve been told they should be.

More about me
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“I came to Sarah for help with an inner war between my creative self and my business/work self.

I was stuck in a bind because I felt that I was being forced to choose one over the other in how I present myself to the world. Sarah helped me reach clarity about what each of these parts was afraid of and how they were needing support.

With Sarah and my therapist’s help, the inner war is over, and now my inner creative self and business self are playing on the same team. It is so freeing!”

– Natalie Ross

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Your creativity is an ecosystem

When we focus only on discipline or productivity, we miss everything that helps it genuinely thrive. Together, let’s look at the whole picture:

The practical stuff

Sustainable habits, rhythms, and creative practices that aren’t at odds with daily life.

The emotional stuff

The gifts and wounds, the strengths and needs, that inform your unique creative blueprint.

The spiritual stuff

The deeper relationship you have with the world around you, and how this shapes the work.

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I write to stay in relationship with myself

I’m a poet and essayist, and the page is where I go to hone my attention, identify my subtlest needs, and translate feeling into brave expression.

My work tends to explore perception, identity, and the more-than-human world, orbiting questions about selfhood and embodiment. I’m particularly interested in divergent practices and the healing power of creative writing for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults—especially women and queer folx.

I adore hybridity, and return again and again to my two main loves: the poem and the essay.

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A sanctuary for the tenderhearted

As a creative writer, I also publish For the Birds, a Substack newsletter (and community space) devoted to neurodivergence, creative practice, and the more-than-human world.

Signing up for my Substack is the best way to get a sense of my writerly interests, my style of thinking, and how I hold space, as it’s where I host monthly workshops & co-writing sessions. It’s also where I write transparently about autism and late-in-life diagnosis.

For the Birds
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