creative self-care

Why We Get Creatively Blocked and How Simple Mindful Art Activities Can Help

Ever feel creatively stuck—even when you want to express yourself? This blog explores the two root causes of creative block (Overwhelm and Resistance) and how mindful art can help you gently move through both.

Mindfulness and Art Drawing Exercises for Anxiety | Destress with BreathDoodles™

Discover how BreathDoodles™ and simple mindful drawing exercises can help reduce stress, ease anxiety, and reconnect you to the present moment. Learn quick tips and guided practices to support your creative self-care.

Creative Self-Care Through Mindful Art: How Moments, Memories, and Journaling Help Us Heal

Discover how mindful art and journaling can help you slow down, heal, and reconnect. Includes 3 creative journaling prompts, a touching story, and ways to deepen your self-care through art.

Strong Inner Critic? Be More Creative with Mindful Art

Does your Inner Critic ever hold you back from creating? Explore how simple, mindful art and journaling can help you quiet self-doubt, reconnect with your creative voice, and make space for joy (no perfection needed!).

Stressed? Relax with Easy Watercolor and Mandala Painting for Beginners

Feeling overwhelmed or stressed? Discover how watercolor painting, mandala drawing ideas, or art journaling can help you stress less and tap into your creativity. Learn why even 5 minutes of creativity can offer deep rest, clarity, and joy—and how to begin today.

How Therapeutic Art Heals | Become a Mindful Art Teacher

Are you a creative, artist, yogi, meditator, teacher, or therapist with a desire to learn therapeutic art practices AND share them with others? Learn more and explore our Mindful Art and Meditation Teacher Training.

Calm Anxiety with Mindful Art: Drawing, Journaling & Mandala Ideas

Feeling overwhelmed or anxious? You’re not alone — and you don’t have to stay stuck in the storm. Learn how simple mindful art practices like BreathDoodles, mandala drawing ideas, and therapeutic art journaling can help calm your nervous system and reconnect you to the present moment.

How to Start a Mindful Art Journal: 3 Simple Daily Steps

Feel like you don’t have time to make art? You’re not alone. Discover how just 5 minutes a day of mindful art journaling can help you feel calmer, more focused, and more connected to your creativity.

Feeling Stuck? 2 Mindful Ways to Embrace Therapeutic Art and Say Yes to Yourself

Feeling stuck or creatively blocked? Discover two simple, mindful therapeutic art ways to help you reconnect with your creativity, quiet self-doubt, and say yes to your inner artist.

What is Mindful Art & How it Can Help You Feel Inspired Again

Feeling creatively stuck or disconnected? Learn how mindful art can help you reconnect with your inner muse through gentle, nonjudgmental practices. Whether you're a beginner, educator, or facilitator, this post offers inspiration and simple tools to help you slow down, reduce stress, and rediscover your joy through creativity.