This Soul Foraging practice is a simple way to begin reconnecting with your creativity through nature, noticing, and creative wellness.
As the seasons shift into early spring, it offers a gentle starting point for gathering inspiration from the world around you, an approach that can later unfold into mixed media collage and intuitive art-making.
There’s something about this time of year that invites us to slow down and notice again.
As the seasons begin to shift and the first signs of spring return, I find myself drawn outside more often… paying attention to the small things I might have missed just weeks ago.
The way the light lingers a little longer.
The ground beginning to soften.
Tiny hints of green pushing through.
This is where Soul Foraging begins.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing a series I call Soul Foraging.
A way of gathering small moments from the world around you… and slowly bringing them into your creative life.
Not in a rushed or structured way.
Not with any pressure to make something “good.”
But simply as a way of noticing… and allowing that noticing to become something more.
Soul Foraging is not about searching for something specific.
It’s about being present enough to notice what is already here.
A shift in the air.
A memory that surfaces unexpectedly.
A feeling you can’t quite name yet, but recognize in your body.
These small moments often pass by unnoticed.
But when we begin to pay attention, they start to gather.
And over time, they begin to form something meaningful.
For me, Soul Foraging began during a time when I felt a little disconnected from my creativity.
As women, we spend so much time holding space for others, we often do not offer that same space to ourselves.
One early spring day, I stepped outside simply needing a pause.
I wasn’t trying to create anything.
But I noticed something small… and allowed myself to stay with it.
And in that quiet moment, something shifted.
From there, this way of noticing became something I returned to again and again.
Not starting with ideas…
but starting with attention.
Soul Foraging grew out of a desire to reconnect with my creativity in a way that felt less pressured and more intuitive.
There were times when sitting down to create felt heavy.
Like I needed to have an idea, a plan, or a clear direction before I even began.
Creativity doesn’t need to begin with knowing.
It can begin with noticing.
With collecting small impressions.
With allowing something to catch your attention… and staying with it just a little longer.
This is a sneak peak at a new lesson that I will be sharing soon at a free event!
Nature has become one of my greatest teachers in this.
In the quiet, everyday moments.
The way something grows without rushing.
The way nothing blooms all at once.
The way everything unfolds in its own time.
There’s a softness to it.
A patience.
And when I allow myself to move at that same pace, something shifts.
Creativity begins to feel less like something I have to do…
and more like something I’m in conversation with.
🌱 A Small Soul Foraging Practice
If you’d like to explore this in a simple way, here’s something you can try.
The next time you step outside, or even look out a window, pause for just a few minutes.
Let your attention settle.
Notice what draws your eye first.
It might be something small.
A color.
A shape.
A shift in light.
Something just beginning.
Stay with it a little longer than you normally would.
You don’t need to understand it.
You don’t need to turn it into anything.
Just notice what it stirs in you.
A feeling.
A memory.
A quiet sense of something you can’t quite name yet.
If you feel like it, you might write a few words down…
or simply carry it with you through the day.
This is often how creative work begins for me.
Creative Check-In
Before you move on, you might take a quiet moment to check in with yourself.
After noticing something around you, gently turn that attention inward.
What did that moment stir in you?
A feeling…
a memory…
a sense of calm… or even a bit of resistance?
There’s no need to analyze it.
Just notice.
This is often the first step in creative wellness—learning to notice what is there before trying to shape it into something.
If something in this way of noticing feels meaningful to you…
and you find yourself curious about exploring it a little further,
you’re welcome to step into the beginning of my Soulful Stories workshop.
I’ve opened up the first part for you to explore,
a quiet, guided place to begin creating and discovering your own visual story, using materials you likely already have.
You can explore it whenever it feels right.
What’s Coming Next
In the next part of this series, we’ll continue this practice with a simple Soul Foraging activity…
and begin to explore how what you notice can start to hold deeper meaning—and even become the beginning of a mixed media collage.
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With warmth,
I live and create on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg peoples, lands that remain under their original stewardship. I honor their enduring connection to this place and their care for it over generations.
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