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START HERE: where art meets psychology and creativity can thrive

We are not all "tortured geniuses" and art isn't always therapy but there is so much richness and connection and magic in the in between. Come learn…

Mar 3, 2024 • Kathryn Vercillo

Recent posts

Creative Health Before the Framework: A Conversation with ROM

Insights from her practice at the intersection of art, healing, and cultural knowledge in Lagos, Nigeria, where creative health exists as lived practice…

Feb 13 • Kathryn Vercillo

Idea Overwhelm as Information: What Your Racing Creative Mind Is Actually Processing

The abundance isn’t the problem. It’s a signal pointing somewhere else.

Feb 11 • Kathryn Vercillo

ART CURE: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives (book review)

What the science really says about art, wellbeing, and the limits of creativity as medicine

Feb 9 • Kathryn Vercillo

Dear Artist With So Many Ideas and Not Enough Clarity

On abundance as overwhelm, holding your ideas more loosely, and how the clarity you're looking for is on the other side of beginning ...

Feb 8 • Kathryn Vercillo

Your Fear of Having Peaked Isn't Random: What Creative Content Patterns Reveal

The work you call "best" often served a specific purpose. Understanding why changes what's possible next.

Feb 4 • Kathryn Vercillo

Wise Words: 14 Quotes on Feelings and Experiences in Health and Creativity

On unfinished creative work, what it means to create with a body in pain, creativity happening in community and not isolation and creative envy ...

Feb 3 • Kathryn Vercillo

Work With Me

Creative Health Mapping

Uncover the Hidden Connections Between Your Health and Your Art Through a Written Analysis, Visual Map and Orientation Call, All Through the Lens of My Unique 6-part Framework

Creative Health Navigation

Explore The Ways Art and Health Intersect For You to Identify What Holistic Success Means For You and Then Achieve It

Monthly Recaps

January '26 Recap: Craftivism, Cartography, Creativity and Maybe a Little Bit of Chaos

On incomplete projects, bodies that don't want to cooperate, creativity in community and more ...

Jan 31 • Kathryn Vercillo

October, November, December 2025 ... being present and looking ahead

Quick recap of the past few months and early announcements about Creative Health Cartography.

Dec 31, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

September Creative Cadence: Madge Gill, Hidden Rhythms, and Embodied Creativity

Productivity, pause, and the body’s quiet knowledge

Oct 1, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

August Creative Cartography: Charting Health, Identity, and Expression Through Hidden Messages in Our Art

From frameworks to lived stories of how health shapes art.

Sep 1, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

July } Full Yet Fragmented: Creative Health in Overflowing Times

Overwhelm, shutdown days, and art as grounding

Jul 31, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

June Creative Healing Toolkit: Letters, Downloads, and Community Wisdom

Mental health resources and techniques

Jul 1, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

May Art-Health Framework: New Tools for Understanding Creative Wellness

Resources for healthy creativity conversations

May 31, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

April } Resilience Through Art: Finding Inspiration Amid Creative Challenges

Artists persevering across decades

Apr 30, 2025 • Kathryn Vercillo

Dear Artist

Dear Artist With So Many Ideas and Not Enough Clarity

On abundance as overwhelm, holding your ideas more loosely, and how the clarity you're looking for is on the other side of beginning ...

Feb 8 • Kathryn Vercillo

Dear Artist Afraid Your Best Work Is Behind You

What if the work that defines you hasn't been made yet, and it looks nothing like what came before?

Feb 1 • Kathryn Vercillo

Dear Artist Who Feels Behind Everyone Else

There is no behind, because there is no single track everyone is on. What would you make if you weren't worried about keeping up?

Jan 25 • Kathryn Vercillo

Dear Artist Who Hates "Networking" ...

You can build a creative life without becoming a person you don't recognize

Jan 18 • Kathryn Vercillo

Healthy Creativity

Idea Overwhelm as Information: What Your Racing Creative Mind Is Actually Processing

The abundance isn’t the problem. It’s a signal pointing somewhere else.

Feb 11 • Kathryn Vercillo

Your Fear of Having Peaked Isn't Random: What Creative Content Patterns Reveal

The work you call "best" often served a specific purpose. Understanding why changes what's possible next.

Feb 4 • Kathryn Vercillo

Your Comparison Targets Aren't Random: What Envy Reveals About Creative Identity

The artists who activate you carry information about what you're seeking, fearing, or becoming

Jan 28 • Kathryn Vercillo

The Lie of the Garret: Why Isolation Doesn't Make Better Art

Isolation isn't authenticity. It's often just depletion wearing a romantic costume.

Jan 20 • Kathryn Vercillo

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