Category: Creative Resilience

Tags: conditional motivation, creative/curious motivation, empathetic motivation, extrinsic motivation, fear-based motivation, intrinsic motivation, motivation, motivation styles, motivation types, proactive motivation, reactive motivation, self motivation

9 Motivation Types and How to Use Them

Why do you do what you do? In a world where distraction and busy-ness seem to rule, it can be easy to forget what drives our decision-making. Today I’m sharing 9 motivation types and how to use them, so you can identify what drives you… and use it to your advantage. But first: Why do

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Category: Tutorials

Tags: accountability, Community, partnership, setting goals

How to Be a Good Accountability Buddy

Have you ever wanted to learn something, but were afraid to do it on your own? If so, you need to try accountability partnerships! (Lots of us who use these call ourselves an accountability buddy, or accountabilibuddies, if you wanna get weird with it…) Today, I’m sharing everything I know about how to be a

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Category: Creative Resilience

Tags: Bonus resources, Creative wellness, Mental wellness, Mindset, Mindset shift, Zines

It’s time for you to unlearn comparisonitis

Coach Jenni Grover offers a handful of techniques to unlearn comparisonitis, the compulsion to compare ourselves with others. Follow along to learn how you can manage your triggers, practice gratitude, get grounded in your creative reality and more.

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Category: Creative Resilience

Tags: Creative wellness, Mental wellness, Physical wellness, Social wellness, Spiritual wellness, Wellness defined

Understanding the five threads of wellness

At the core of my wellness coaching for makers is a concept I call the “five threads of wellness.” I’d like to share the concept in depth, along with an example from my own life, to help you recognize how you can strengthen your own threads.

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Category: Creative Resilience

Tags: ChronicBabe

Creative resilience: What it is and how it helps you feel good

Creative resilience is getting in touch with your innate creativity, growing it as a strength, and using it as a tool to solve problems. This post defines the concept more deeply and offers some practice ways to cultivate it in your own life.

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Category: Tutorials

Tags: Creative resilience, Creative wellness, Creativity

How to use a “deadline album” to break through creative blocks

Coach Jenni Grover shares how she chose and uses a “deadline album” to break through creative blocks. She explains how to choose your own, how to use it, and how to make sure it keeps working year after year.

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Category: Mindset

Tags: Creative resilience, Creative wellness, Creativity, Mindset shift, Quilting

The epic hexie fail (a lesson in letting go of perfectionism)

Coach Jenni Grover shares a story of a quilt “fail” that some would have considered a disaster. Her approach to letting go of perfectionism helped her love the quilt even with its faults.

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Category: Creative Resilience

Tags: Creativity, Mindset, Mindset shift

60 ways to boost creativity

Coach Jenni Grover offers 60 ways to boost creativity starting today, plus a handful of questions to consider when you’re feeling creatively tapped out. This post will jumpstart your creative energies again!

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Category: Creative Resilience

Tags: Mindset

How to cultivate fierce warrior energy

Coach Jenni Grover shares an exercise to cultivate new energy and create a mindset shift to help you feel stronger in difficult situations. She uses the Buddhist deity Shukongojin as her example (the embodiment of fierce warrior energy she needs from time to time) and encourages you to find an entity that inspires you.

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Category: Tutorials

Tags: Community, Idea generation, Seeking support

11 top tips on how to run a focus group

Jenni Grover, wellness coach for makers, explains how she has used focus groups to develop her work projects. She also provides 11 top tips on how to run a focus group so creative people can use this tool.

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Category: Meditation

Tags: Spiritual wellness, Tutorials

Learn to meditate with “Meditative Forest,” a meditation for beginners

“Meditative Forest” is a meditation for beginners by coach Jenni Grover. She also offers guidance on getting started with meditation, things people often get wrong, best practices, and additional resources.

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Category: Mindset

Tags: Mental wellness, Mindset shift, Wellness defined

Mental Health During the Holidays: Tips for Makers

Coach Jenni Grover provides dozens of tips for maintaining your mental health during holidays and special occasions. She also shares a 1-hour conversation she had with renowned quilter Suzy Williams that includes even more guidance!

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