Why I started the business

Restorative Creativity - Restore your personal wellbeing and growth.

Access your ability to improve your life by learning more about yourself and exploring your imagination to identify what is important to you and how to make this your reality.

Last year I ended a relationship with the most wonderful person because I felt unable to commit.

This event launched the business as I began exploring philosophy and researching more to find my ‘inner demons’ which I was then able to work on. Although the loss of this relationship was the catalyst, there were other issues in my life that I wanted to improve/change, including my career, increasing my confidence and self-esteem, and finding my life purpose. This meant addressing the areas which I struggle with, which consist of:

Perfectionism and berating myself over real or perceived mistakes

Fear - of abandonment, being hurt, death

Overthinking

Understanding that I am very emotional and highly sensitive and how to handle this

Not thinking I’m good enough

Ridding myself of ‘labels’ and negative beliefs  

I can care very deeply but I don’t always find it easy to show this. The biggest criticism I have received, over and over, is that ‘I don’t let anybody in’ or ‘I don’t let anybody get close to me’. It doesn’t help that previously I attracted, and was attracted to, the wrong type of person, the ones who would break your heart. If I did meet nice people, I was scared of becoming attached. I knew I had to try and break the cycle. 

I express myself by writing. It’s the only way I can clarify thoughts and feelings and I find it cathartic. Hence the poetry, and the journal which is for people to help clarify their emotions, goals and what is important to them. Writing exercises like the ones in the journal helped me immensely and if I could help just one person it will all be worthwhile. I’m not good at expressing myself verbally as I like time to process thoughts and feelings and to find the right words to express this.

This business is exciting, but scary also. Due to being such a private person I feel that the poetry in particular is very real and honest and putting it out there, for people to see, means that I feel vulnerable, but this is the journey I am on and it’s the right thing to do. I’m finally facing the fear head on.