How I Found Community After Burnout (By Taking a Pottery Class)
Creativity won't save you from burnout, but this might. What actually happened when I finally stopped making excuses and showed up to a pottery class: what I learned about perfectionism, why I hated being told what to make, and the unexpected thing that actually built joy. This is part of my series called Field Notes, a real-time experiment in cultivating joy.
Field Notes: 12 Experiments in Building Joy After Burnout
What happens when you stop postponing life for "someday"? I'm spending my 33rd year running 12 experiments to answer one question: How do you build a state of joy that coexists with the uncertainty of life? This is autoethnographic research—documenting real-time experiments in creative expression, intentional living, and deprogramming from hustle culture. No guru shit, just messy truth from the wilderness.
Creative Recovery Lessons from Vlogtober: Letting Go of Fear and Perfectionism
What happens when you show up to create every day for a month — not to go viral, but to recover your creativity? This essay shares what Vlogtober taught me about fear, perfectionism, and finding peace