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 have five minutes or an hour, whether you're feeling energised or needing rest, this seasonal approach meets you exactly where you are.

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

Inside, You'll Discover:

✓ Permission to create in seasons, not schedules
Some weeks you'll feel inspired, others you'll need rest—both are valuable

✓ How to honour your creative heart within your actual schedule
Work with the time you have, not the time you wish you had

✓ Understanding of your natural creative rhythms
Recognise when you're in a season of planting, blooming, harvesting, or resting

✓ Gentle ways to weave creativity into busy life
Make even small moments of creative time feel meaningful and nourishing

✓ Freedom from creative guilt and "shoulds"
Stop feeling bad about inconsistent creative time and embrace what's actually sustainable

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 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:

  • 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.