The Creative Recovery Issue
Creative Fix is the magazine for creative wellbeing. This edition focuses on coming back to creativity after burnout or health/life challenges. Creativity can be incredibly healing, but it also requires a balanced, wellbeing-first approach.
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What’s in this month’s issue?
Here’s what you can find in August’s magazine.
Features
The grief of creative burnout
If you’re an artist, who are you if you can’t make your art?
What is burnout anyway?
“Burnout” is a word we’ve been hearing more and more in the last few years, but without any clear definition.
Guidance
How to come back to your creativity
Coming back to creativity after a break—self-directed or otherwise—does not mean jumping back in where you left off. It can require gentle handling, and a reassessment of what it is you truly want.
Making art in alignment with your energy
Rather than trying to force yourself to do certain creative activities because they’re next on the to do list, a more sustainable approach is to choose the activity that fits your current capacity.
The Creative Capacity Ladder
The Creative Capacity Ladder is a way to identify what you feel capable of right now and how you can build your creative muscle to help you work your way up to your goals.
Inspiration
August Challenge
Here’s a creative prompt for you, designed to take you just a little bit outside your comfort zone.
Creative Roulette
Creative prompts, but gamified! Spin the wheel, ignite your spark.
Business
What does creative success mean to you?
One of the biggest questions burnout has asked of me is: What do you really want success to look like? Both in terms of my writing and my business.
Art
Review: Wintering
I couldn’t have an issue about burnout without talking about this book by Katherine May.
Reader Showcase
Meet textile artist, Zoe Wright.
