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Your creative life is your real life.

Reconnect with your creative instincts, find your way into the work you want to make, and build a life that belongs to you.

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You might be here because you’re in a season of creative longing...

You’re navigating an identity shift that calls for authentic expression. Or you’re eager to return to—or deepen—a writing practice. Or you’re trying to bring a meaningful creative project into the world while navigating midlife.

Except. You’ve likely spent years prioritizing other responsibilities, adapting to the expectations of those around you, masking, or simply trying to get through.

And along the way, your creative instincts become harder to access and even harder to prioritize.

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You may feel something’s missing from your life—creative purpose, a sense of intuition, or permission to pursue what matters most. It could be:

  • The book you’ve been carrying around for years and are ready to give meaningful attention to.

  • A writing practice where you don’t struggle to get started, make time, and/or maintain momentum.

  • Or you’re simply ready for the next evolution of your creative life, but you’re not sure where to begin.

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Deep, ongoing support for tenderhearted and neurodivergent humans who want to reclaim (or deepen) a relationship with their creativity.

1:1 Creative Coaching and Mentorship

Inside a coaching container, we slow way down & zoom way in, co-creating a space where your deepest creative insights can emerge. Through a mix of gentle accountability, responsive support, and a holistic view of creativity, we’ll uncover the sustainable practices that let you discern intuition from noise and give form to your vision.

Whether it’s a defined project or something still abstract or unknown, let’s begin where you are:

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

“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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I’m Sarah—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 day-to-day choices, identities, and nervous systems; our histories and hopes; and our capacity to imagine a different future for ourselves and each other.

Today, I work with writers, artists, and sensitive humans who want to build creative lives that honor the full scope of who they are—not who they think they’re supposed be.

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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

Because your creative life is your real life

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Because your creative life is your real life 😻

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Nourishing resources & divergent community

As a creative writer, I 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

“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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I write to stay in relationship with myself

I’m a lifelong writer, and the page is where I go to hone my attention, identify my subtlest needs, and translate feeling into courageous expression.

My work tends to explore perception, identity, and the more-than-human world, orbiting questions of 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, while always returning to my two formal loves: the poem and the essay.

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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 project

  • integrate an identity shift that calls for self-expression

  • reconnect with inspiration after burnout

  • make time for creativity inside a full, complex life

Wherever you are: let’s begin there.

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