Use this exercise for when you're feeling overwhelmed or blocked. When there are too many thoughts... or none at all... because either of those are a hard place to create and grow from. Start by sitting with a blank page and something to draw with. Draw big lines across it the page. Wavy. Straight. Intersecting. Fill the page with them. You’re not making something pretty. You’re making space. Then start writing along the lines and inside the shapes that the lines created. If

Use this exercise for when you're feeling angry, stressed, anxious, or spiraling. Because sometimes you don’t need insight. You need release. Start by sitting with a blank page and several colors of something to draw with. And then just... scribble. Hard. Fast. Messy. Maybe even fun. Press until your hand gets tired. Let it be ugly. Let it be dramatic. This is not art. This is energy leaving your body. When those emotions stay in your head, they echo. They get louder. They st

I think I love this one a little too much. Like… I don’t want to answer emails. I don’t want to do admin. I just want to sit and practice pattern and play with cute colors all day. I cannot wait for you to try this. Step 1: Build Your Grid Start by drawing a grid of shapes. Squares are easy. Circles are adorable. Triangles if you’re feeling spicy. Whatever feels good — do that. Fill the page with evenly spaced shapes so you’ve got a little container for each idea. Step 2: Pat

Zentangles are a form of meditation. If you’ve ever sat in a classroom and mindlessly doodled in the margins — swirls, lines, scribbles, patterns — you already know this feeling. That zoned-out, hand-moving, not-overthinking state. Zentangles are that. But intentional. Step 1: Begin Grab your sketchbook (or a piece of paper) and something to draw with. Now start. No plan. No sketching first. No penciling it out or trying to make it look like something. Just make a line across

We're doing Zentangle self-portraits! And yes, I know... ... that probably sounds intimidating. But it’s really not. I promise. Step 1: Choose the Photo Start by picking a photo. Ideally, it's going to be a photo of you. And I know, that alone can feel like a lot. I have business head-shots that I genuinely love, so I picked one of those. Choose something that feels like you. A candid moment. A memory. A version of yourself you recognize. You can technically use any photo, o

It's time for you to make a commitment to yourself. Your first, and possibly most important, brand growth exercise starts here: Get a sketchbook and open it to the very first, very blank, very terrifying page and write the following: I give myself permission. Permission to open my heart. Permission to make mistakes. Permission to learn and grow and be selfish and speak loudly and explore. I commit to myself. My whole self. I will be kind to myself. I will be patient with myse