Find Your Creative Rhythm in the Midst of Real Life

Do you long for more creativity in your life but feel like there's never enough time between work, family, and everything else demanding your attention?

Maybe you've tried to carve out creative time, only to feel guilty when you need a break or frustrated when inspiration doesn't show up on command. You're told that "real" creatives show up every single day, no matter what.

What if creativity could flow with your natural rhythms instead of demanding rigid consistency?

Just as nature moves through seasons of growth, abundance, harvest, and rest, your creative heart has its own natural cycles too. Sometimes you have energy for bold creative exploration. Other times, you need to gather ideas quietly. Some seasons call for completing projects; others invite gentle dreaming and planning.

When you recognise and embrace these patterns—even in the small pockets of time you have available—creativity stops feeling like another pressure and starts feeling like nourishment for your soul.

Introducing:
The Seasonal Journal for Creative Hearts

Seasonal Practices to Align with Your Natural Creative Rhythms

This gentle companion helps you discover how to weave creativity sustainably into your busy life by working with your natural rhythms instead of against them.

Whether you're in a season of energy or rest, whether you have regular creative time or stolen moments for reflection, this seasonal approach honours whatever capacity you bring to your creative practice.

This book is available as both a paperback you can write in directly and a concise ebook designed to be used alongside your favourite notebook or journal. You'll read the seasonal guidance and prompts, then reflect and write your responses—creating a personalised seasonal creative practice that's uniquely yours.

Inside, You'll Discover:

✓ Understanding of creative seasons and natural rhythms

✓ Permission to rest and honour different creative phases

✓ Gentle journalling prompts that don't demand rigid consistency

✓ A framework that works with natural cycles rather than forced schedules

What's Inside The Seasonal Journal?

Four Complete Seasonal Guides for Autumn, Winter, Summer & Spring featuring:

  • Beginnings prompts to tune into each season's unique energy

  • Reflections to harvest wisdom and acknowledge growth

  • Intentions to set heart-centred directions without pressure

  • Seasonal Harvest pages to capture insights and plan meaningful action

Over 100 thoughtful journalling prompts designed to help you:

  • Recognise whether you're in a season of planting, blooming, harvesting, or resting

  • Celebrate growth without forcing productivity

  • Trust in the essential work that happens during quieter creative seasons

  • Develop a loving relationship with your complete creative experience

Three flexible approaches so you can use this journal:

  • Following natural seasonal timing

  • In gentle monthly rhythms

  • Intuitively when sections call to you

Who Is This For:

  • Artists, writers, makers, and anyone seeking sustainable creativity

  • Busy parents, professionals, and caregivers who miss having creativity in their lives but struggle to find consistent time

  • Anyone feeling guilty about inconsistent creative time or needing creative rest

  • People overwhelmed by "daily creative practice" advice that doesn't fit their real-life circumstances

  • Creative souls seeking permission to honour their natural rhythms instead of forcing productivity

  • Those ready to embrace a gentler, more sustainable approach to creative living

"When we learn to recognise and honour these patterns, creativity in our lives no longer feels forced and instead feels like the most natural thing in the world."

~ The Seasonal Journal for Creative Hearts ~

Digital Edition

Digital Download Package:

  • PDF version (perfect for printing select pages)

  • EPUB version (ideal for reading on devices)

  • Immediate access after purchase

  • Lifetime access to your files

  • Note: This is a guidebook of prompts and reflections to use with your own journal or notebook

Printed Edition

Available from These Retailers:

  • Amazon

  • Booktopia

About Nicola Newman

Nicola Newman is an award-winning artist, author, and creative mentor based in North Queensland, Australia. She guides Creative Hearts around the world through her books, retreats, and coaching practice, helping them cultivate their creativity and trust their inner wisdom.