Practical & Intuitive
The life of the artist is full of ups and downs.
Learn how to create with a greater sense of ease, enjoyment, and meaning.
Guidance for Writers & Creatives
Email Guidance
Send me a question about a challenge you’re facing, and I’ll send you an email with personalized guidance and support for free.
Fill out this form to receive your free letter, no strings attached. Be sure to include any relevant links + a short bio.
Please give me 48 hours to respond to your question or challenge.
Like what you hear?
You can book five more emails or voice notes that can be used at your own pace, no expiration date. $100. Sliding scale available.
What do people ask me about? Below are a few examples.
Finding spiritual meaning and purpose while editing a long manuscript.
Knowing if you’re ready to apply for an MFA program or if you need to slow down.
Writing for yourself vs. writing for publication.
Strategies on revising essays, short stories, and book-length manuscripts.
Empowering yourself after rejection or failure.
Connecting mindfulness and meditation to your creative practice, and vice versa.
Balancing and integrating day jobs and care-taking with creative practice and meditation.
“Sarah’s approach, which helps writers get outside themselves and learn to see what’s on the page (and what’s missing), is truly one of a kind. It’s a way of showing you yourself.”
— Serena Simpson
1:1 Guidance:
45-minutes of inquiry-based, practical & intuitive creative support
The Process
Get in touch with your desires and your artistic sensibilities.
What do you love? What inspires you to create? We’ll start by identifying your desires, values, worldview, aesthetics, self-care needs, and goals. You’ll receive a questionnaire with creativity exercises that I’ll use to design your 1:1 sessions.
Uncover your challenges.
Through inquiry and active listening, our session will allow you to define the challenges you’re facing in your creative life. You’ll receive strategies that allow you to redirect your energy in a way that is purposeful and aligned with your goals.
Tap into your joy.
Engage with your creative practice in a way that is refreshing, pleasurable, and open. You’ll receive innovative creativity exercises and accountability goals personalized for your life and desires.
Find endurance in creative devotion.
When you make something that you love, it’s easier to commit to a long-term creative practice or project. You’ll learn how deepen the connection between your artistic work and your worldview, spirituality, and values so that you can support your creative practice for the long-term.
The rate for a forty-five minute 1:1 guidance session is set at a sliding scale.
Choose from $85, $65, or $45. Discounts available for anyone facing recent job loss or financial need.
What people say about my coaching & teaching:
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“I received so much from coaching with Sarah. Her coaching intake form was helpful to me in establishing my writing goals and creating a daily writing practice. She offers all kinds of resources including book and Substack recommendations and writing groups. The coaching experience jump started my desire to write my memoirs thru her writing prompts and feedback.”
Elizabeth O.
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“She has a wealth of practical tips and wisdom for writers of all ages or experience levels. Time with Sarah has made me a better writer and teacher, and I aspire to her sense of joy in the craft.”
Connor Shioshita-Pickett
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“Sarah is a fantastic leader and teacher, and her approach to incorporating play into the classroom is both thoughtful and energizing. It’s been a pleasure for me to learn from her as both a teacher and a writer, and I’m confident that working with her can make anyone’s teaching and writing better.”
Michelle Falkoff, author of How to Pack for the End of the World
Discipline follows devotion.
Writing takes patience and discipline—but it doesn’t have to hurt. Love what you make and you’ll naturally create with more ease, less angst. Show up to your creative work by tapping into curiosity, wonder, experimentation, and joyful effort.
Gentleness and rigor are not contradictions.
No matter what your goal is—whether it’s publishing a manuscript, starting a creative practice, or rediscovering an artistic passion—I’ll guide you in a way that is based in love for yourself and the work you do. I help you the identify patterns in your creative life that support you and the ones that hold you back.
Together, we build a process that allows you to create with a greater sense of enjoyment and freedom.
Creativity comes from the heart and body.
Our creative energy isn’t confined to a mental process, but to our entire sensory experience. Feeling connected to our hearts and bodies allows us to experience freedom and pleasure in artistic expression. You’ll access your creativity through playful, innovative exercises, relaxation techniques, and engaging with your environment.
Life teaches us how to create, even when things are hard.
I’m a published fiction writer and essayist who has navigated creative work amidst the busyness of parenting, a full-time job, moving, chronic pain, illness, and bereavement. On the way, I’ve developed tools and resources to support myself and others. I’ve helped hundreds of people start and finish creative projects, reinvigorate their writing, and find inspiration when they feel blocked. You will take away proven strategies to enliven your creative process and you will invent your own.