ONLINE INTENSIVE
Creative Liberation is calling your name
Dear Beautiful You,
Can you picture your five-year-old self?
Before you fully knew anything beyond being exactly who you are?
Remember how good it felt to be free?
Finding this freedom again doesn’t have to be such a challenge.
You do not have to be good.
You do have to wait for a cosmic tap on the shoulder.
You do not have to be more healed to begin.
You do not have to walk a hundred miles on your knees through the desert repenting (thank you, Mary Oliver).
You don’t have to keep struggling on your own.
You can start right now,
just as you are.
If you just can’t shake the feeling that more is possible for you, and you want to release your doubts and fears so you can feel safe to be yourself and live the life of your dreams, this is a call to you.
This is an invitation to come home to yourself, to embrace the fullness of who you already are.
To be free, we have to break ourselves open.
How do we do this?
Creative practice.
It all begins with one step at a time.
Creative recovery is a healing process. Before a wound can heal, it must be seen.
Creativity is the practice of
seeing yourself.
Creativity teaches you to accept, connect with and stay present with your mind.
Through this practice, you see who you really are.
You become one whole person.
When creativity is unleashed, it increases joy, satisfaction, self-esteem, and motivation.
“Creativity lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves.” -Julia Cameron
Is this you?
You want to be more creative, but you’re not sure how, and there’s too much information on the internet. Where do you even begin?
You know you are made for more, but somehow you’re stuck feeling unfulfilled. How do you get out of the rut?
You want to create, but you’re terrified about what other people will think and it’s paralyzing. Cue, all the shame spirals.
You’ve always been creative, but lately, you feel blocked, or creativity just doesn’t feel the same anymore. Where can you escape?
You’ve read the books, you’ve done the therapy, and while you intellectually KNOW what to do to support yourself, you can’t seem to make it happen. What’s the missing piece?
You need guidance from someone who knows what it’s like to feel stuck in the dark, overwhelmed yet so longing for freedom, creativity, and aliveness.
That’s where I come in.
I know the pain of feeling disconnected so deeply because I’ve been there too.
I’ve lived through trauma, loss, grief, and overwhelm, and I’ve spent years recovering from the pain of perfection and expectations.
Since 2010, I’ve lived with complex PTSD, anxiety, and chronic migraine pain. In the darkest hours,
I have felt so far away from myself and so desperate to escape the agony that is sometimes my experience of being in my body and my mind.
In an overworked and overstressed world,
I know I am not alone. Capitalism and white supremacy have indoctrinated us with ideas of self-worth connected to productivity and success. More than ever, we are facing a crisis of spiritual hunger, emotional disconnection, physical exhaustion, and creative burnout.
In my own journey, I have come to understand the importance of creative self-expression for healing, wellbeing, and for everyday life and liberation as a human on this earth.
Through a mindfulness-based appraoch to writing, painting, drawing, and photography, I found a connection to my innermost thoughts, ideas, breakthroughs, emotions, and deepest truths.
On the page, I could be me. Practicing this freedom in the safety of my notebooks helped me embody this freedom in my everyday life too.
As I began to heal the connection to my creative self, I began to heal the rest of my life.
Having experienced this transformation first-hand, I now feel a call to share the power of creativity with as many people as possible.
Fueled by this desire, in 2013, I studied Counseling and Art Therapy with the intention to become an Art Therapist.
When my program suddenly folded (a blessing in disguise),
I returned to art school and graduated with my Bachelors of Arts in Studio Art and Psychology and became a yoga teacher at the same time.
Because I was studying art, psychology, and yoga together, I began to see how creative practice embodied much of the same teachings of the mindfulness practices I was learning.
I came to see engaging with my creative practice the same as engaging with yoga or meditation. Both practices help me to slow down, to be with my breath, and to come back to the wholeness that is the most real, with a capital R, me.
Out of my abundance of gratitude for this realization as well as for the support I received in my own healing journey and creative recovery, I want to light the way for you.
From my own experience, I now understand that underneath the noise, chaos, distractions, and overwhelm, there is a sacred space, a quiet force that is ever-present and always accessible if we learn how to enter into it.
Now I understand that creativity is our true nature. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking, and thinking. When we are disconnected from our inner creative self, we are disconnected from our full life.
As Brené Brown has said,
Unused creativity is not benign.
When you sit on your creativity or deny it, it festers, it metastasizes into resentment, grief, and heartbreak.
It lives within you until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or abandoned by resentment and fear.
Are you ready to connect to your creative spirit again?
Are you ready to be free?
CREATIVE LIBERATION
Unleash your creative spirit in 8 transformational weeks
Creative Liberation is a mindfulness-based creative recovery online intensive. It is both an act of self-care and a vehicle for healing and self-discovery.
Doors are open through June 14
The summer intensive begins June 21
There’s so much magic already inside of you!
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN INSIDE CREATIVE LIBERATION
Discover and Trust Your Voice
Explore, Develop, and get to know your own mind through creative practices
Work With Fear & Resistance
Cultivate your ability to embrace and move through fear, judgment, perfectionism, procrastination, rejection, and resistance as part of the creative and healing process
Understand Your Inner Critic
Learn to notice, understand, and shift your internal critical voice toward a more kind and compassionate inner voice
Radical Deep Listening & Acceptance
Learn to listen deeply (and be present) to yourself and the world around you
Slow Down
Quiet the constant chatter in your mind to connect to yourself and the world around you - slowing down is in itself a radical act and I want to show you how it’s possible even in your full life
What’s Included
SMALL GROUP
A group of up to 8 participants to keep it intimate and so you don’t have to go it alone. Creativity flourishes best in community.
8 GROUP WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Weekly TWO-HOUR LIVE group calls with me where I’ll offer guided meditation, teaching, and facilitated group sharing designed to be a supportive space to help you deepen your relationship with yourself and your creative spirit.
These sessions also include facilitated quiet writing time with guided prompts and exercises to help you develop your creative muscles and connect back to your own mind.
These calls will take place:
TUESDAYS 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Every call is recorded with a full transcript so you don’t have to worry about making every call live.
2 MONTHLY QUIET WRITING SESSIONS
Once-a-month writing session with guided prompts and mindfulness-based creative exercises to help you stay in the flow and stretch your creative muscles.
These calls will take place:
SATURDAY
These calls will also be recorded so you follow along at your own pace if you can’t make it live.
WEEKLY PERSONALIZED 1:1 SUPPORT
In addition to the support of the group, you’ll receive my personalized attention and guidance 1:1 via Voxer throughout our time together.
Voxer is a FREE walkie-talkie-style app that allows us to send voice or text messages back and forth. I love this app because it’s introvert-friendly and accommodating to a busy schedule.
You can send me messages from anywhere and replay messages however often you’d like. As a Creative Liberation participant, you can send me UNLIMITED Voxer messages (text, voice, or video) at any time during our 8 weeks together.
I check and respond to messages every M, W, and F between the hours of 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST. Unless you send a message on the weekend, you can expect to hear back from me within 24 business hours.
The best part about using Voxer is that you can receive personalized 1:1 support throughout the week (even on the days you don’t brush your hair or put on real pants!) and you take the time you need to respond.
PRIVATE COMMUNITY SPACE
To connect, ask questions, share your experience, and be supported in between live sessions - we use Google Classroom.
“A creative community is contagious. By being within its embrace I become more inventive, grow, take risks, break rules, make mistakes and have fun in doing so.” - Mary Lou Cook, actress
CUSTOMIZED TOOLBOX OF RESOURCES
A special, customized, and curated list of books, tools, music, and articles to support you on your journey. This toolbox will be personalized to you as a result of our 1:1 time together and will be updated throughout the 8 weeks. This toolbox is only accessible to you and is available as a download until a month after our program end date, so you can keep it forever.
BONUS: SOLSTICE KICK OFF SESSION
A special kick-off session to celebrate the start of our journey together. This is a one-hour live call which includes a guided mindfulness exercise and facilitated time to get to know each other.
This workshop is an intentional space for the process of discovery to take place as you reconnect with yourself and practice getting to know your own creative spirit.
The teaching is not linear and is intended to evolve with the energy of the group.
Once you sign-up, you’ll have lifetime access to soak up all the resources as many times as you like. Workshop exercises and your custom resource toolbox list are available for download until a month after our program end date. You can download these and keep them forever!
The emphasis of this workshop is on the creative process - not on technical skill.
Expect to leave this intensive with simple, practical tools you can use to develop a grounded and transformational creative practices that can last the rest of your life!
THE INVESTMENT TO UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT
One-Time Payment
$750
or choose your preferred payment option:
$188/ 4 monthly payments
$125/ 6 monthly payments
$84 / 9 monthly payments
Sliding scale and individual payment plans available upon request.
Please indicate any financial needs when you submit your Creative Liberation application form.
8 WORKSHOP SPOTS AVAILABLE
Doors are open through June 14
The workshop begins Monday, June 21*
(*The summer solstice! How auspicious, right?!)
Creativity and creative living, much like anything else, is a muscle. You don’t have to search for it or wait for it to stumble upon you.
It is already present in you, waiting to be uncovered.
You are being invited to step forward with your heart and act.
Who you will be at the end of this journey is worth the courage.
Through creative practice, you will see into your own heart and mind, connect to your inner wisdom, and bring to life the fullest expression of who you are.
You may begin to discover new interests, desires, and direction. Alternatively, you may find yourself reawakening long-lost childhood dreams and passions.
A thrilling journey awaits.
“Lindsey Jo helped me understand that I’m a complex being that can feel so many things at once and it’s ok. I felt seen and comforted and not judged.”
- Betsy Ottinger
”In the midst of anxiety and stress, Lindsey Jo helped me connect back to creative flow.”
- Aimee Juarez
“With Lindsey Jo’s support, my life changed. She funnels ideas, techniques, books, music, etc to me and it has changed me and given me permission to change my life and path.”
- Hannah Monroe
Creative Liberation is for you if any of these thoughts have ever crossed your mind:
“I don’t think I’m very creative, but I would like to be.”
“I want to stop feeling stuck so I take action to live my purpose.”
“I feel burned out and I don’t know how to get back to feeling okay again.”
“I want to stop hiding and share myself and my art with the world.”
"I know there are bigger dreams for me, but I need more clarity on which direction to take."
“I feel scattered and I wish I knew how to figure out my life.”
“I believe that more freedom is possible and I want to come home to myself.”
“ I want to stop seeking all the answers outside of myself and learn to trust my own wisdom.”
“I would like to develop a deeper capacity to manage all my emotions.”
“I want to feel less alone by connecting with a like-minded community of freedom seekers.”
This workshop is created for courageous, compassionate creative souls like you who are ready to release their fears and doubts to become more of themselves and embrace their creative dreams.
I created this workshop because the world needs more of you in it.
To shine your light, having your feet on the ground is a good beginning.
Creative practice can set you in the right direction, so you can continue on your own unique journey.
This is not the right workshop for you if:
You are not ready to embody deeper levels of healing or creativity.
You need professional mental health support. While this program is therapeutic, it is not therapy and I am not a licensed therapist.
You don’t yet want to give up what’s holding you back.
You just want to share your promos and not participate. This is a SPAM-FREE zone!
Throughout these nourishing 60 days together…
You will connect to your inner-creative spirit so you can live your most authentic, courageous life.
You will steady your mind and heart so you can uncover what’s important to you - and in the process, begin to mend other areas of your life that need healing.
You will meet a new, unconditioned way of seeing and being through connection to your own inner wisdom. The answers you seek are inside you.
You’ll be supported through the ebbs and flows of healing and the creative process.
You will break through barriers that may be holding you back in your creativity and life.
This intensive is going to open your eyes to the creative magic that is already in you and wake you up to the wild, expansive, beautiful, and mysterious goodness that is your messy, imperfect, and wonderful life.
IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU, YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE
YOU ARE READY TO GIVE UP:
Self-Doubt and Procrastination
Lack of Clarity and Focus
Continued Burnout and Exhaustion
Lack of Joy or Fulfillment
Persistent overwhelm
Feelings of Loneliness
Inauthenticity or Fear of Being Yourself
Feelings of Stuckness
SO YOU CAN BOLDLY EMBRACE:
Creative freedom to do more of what you love!
Daily practices to help you connect (and stay connected) to your inner creative self
Self-trust and confidence to know and follow your inner guidance
Connection to your purpose and the expansive world
Renewed aliveness and energy for life
Creativity as a spiritual practice
Community-based support with other creative, sensitive souls—you are not alone!
YOU WERE MADE TO BE FREE.
It’s time to let your soul shine and step into the spotlight of yourself.
Your five-year-old self will thank you.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
I’m not an artist/ am not very creative - is this workshop for me?
Yes, definitely! Creativity is something we ALL have within us and is not reserved solely for professional artists. When you tune into the power of your creativity and use it in your lives, you open yourself to new feelings of aliveness and joy.
“There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.” -Brené Brown
If you’re being called to this workshop in any way, I believe it is for good reason. The capacity to be creative is within you, and if you feel a nudge to strengthen your connection to this part of you, I hope you will respond.
What’s it like to work with you?
If you’ve made it this far, you probably already have a sense of what it’s like for us to work together. Everything on this website is directly from me, so if it’s resonating, and you feel connected, you can feel confident that we’ll likely connect well too.
As a teacher, I am a gentle guide and a validation-queen. My sensitivity is my superpower and I am hella good at helping you feel seen so you can stand in your power. I already know there is so much liberation ahead for you, and I would be honored to join you in your journey to believing and embodying this too.
What do I need to participate?
You will need a device on which you can access the internet, a pen and paper (preferably a notebook), and a willingness to write your truth. For live calls, it is recommended that you come prepared with an open mind, comfortable clothing, and ideally a safe, private, and quiet space where you can focus and write. I’d love to see your face on video during the live sessions, but this is totally optional. You are welcome to turn off your video at any time during our calls together if that is more suitable for you. This is a safe space for you to meet yourself. Your heart journey awaits!
What if I can’t attend every live session?
No worries! Each week’s session is recorded and a link to the recording (with written transcript) will be available in our Google Classroom community within 24 business hours. The exercises and prompts will also be shared to the Google Classroom community each week and you can always work through them at your own pace. Remember, you also have access to me throughout our time together via Voxer, so if you miss a call and have a question, feel free to ask me in our Google Classroom or via Voxer. I’m here for you!
Can you give me a sense of what the live sessions will be like?
During each week’s live session, you’ll be guided through mindfulness practices, creative exercises, and writing prompts that we’ll work through together in session. Each week, I’ll also share a short teaching segment related to creativity, healing, and the creative process. You’ll be invited to share your writing and experiences with the group each week, but you are never required to do so. The live sessions are truly magical!
What are the exact dates and times for the live sessions?
The dates for our live sessions are as follows:
SPECIAL KICK-OFF GROUP CALL
Monday, June 21
GROUP TEACHING + WORKSHOP
Wednesday, June 23 : 5:30 - 7:00 PM EST
GROUP QUIET WRITING SESSIONS
Saturday, June
How long do I have access to the video recordings and resources?
How does forever sound? You’ll have access to the recorded workshop videos within 24 business hours each week inside the Google Classroom. These along with the exercises and resource lists will be available to you to access via Google Classroom until a month after our end date, but you can download them at any point throughout the program to keep forever and ever.
What happens when I click the SIGN-UP button?
Any of the SIGN-UP buttons will take you to a no-obligation application form. This process helps me get to know you better and is intended to ensure we’ll be a good fit. Because this program is intimate and high touch, I want to be sure I’ll be able to provide the support you’re looking for. When you fill out the form, I’ll send you a personalized reply within 24 hours with next steps. If you’re feeling called to be part of this container this summer, all you need to do is hit the button and submit your form. You belong where you feel free and I would be honored to help show you the way.
When is the next time you’re going to be offering this workshop?
I’m not sure yet. This is my first time offering this intensive version of this program and my intention and focus right now is on this summer session. I would LOVE for you to join me for this first-ever Creative Liberation program. There is so much goodness waiting for you - are you ready to be free?
I have another question that is not answered here. What’s the best way to contact you?
There is space to ask your questions on the application form. Once you have applied, I will personally review your application and determine if this is a fit for the work you’re desiring to do. I’ll send you a personalized response and am here to answer any and all of your questions in the next steps.