Hello, I’m Andrea: Creativity + Meditation teacher, Healer, Artist and Magic-Maker.

My work comes from the intersection of Creativity and Spirituality.

Spirituality is about going inward.

Creativity is about expressing outward.

But they both deal with the same thing: Your Creative Spirit.

It’s important to be rooted in your Creative Spirit, so that everything you do is infused with purpose, meaning, and heart.

Because that’s where the magic happens.

I call it Creative Magic and it helps you to get un-stuck and create all sorts of magic stuff out in the world (AKA Creative Dreaming).

The Creative Magic is why my work sparkles the way it does.

The tools I use are: Creative Journaling, Creative Dream Incubation and Creative Meditation.

I have developed these tools over the past 15 years.

On the creative side I have a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fashion Design and half of a degree in Interior Design.

On the spiritual side I am a highly intuitive Reiki healer, I have been trained and accredited as a New Thought Healing Practitioner and have attended more workshops and retreats in personal growth, emotional process integration and intuitive development than you can shake a stick at.

But it’s much less about the tools and much more about letting your Creative Magic sparkle and shine.

My mission is to overflow this world with Creative Dreams come true.

Mine, yours, everyone’s.

And to fulfill my mission:


I teach in-person and e-courses about everything to do with Creative Magic. If you’re new, start with Creativity 101, a free e-course about Creative Magic.  Sign up right here:

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I help you grow your creative dreams.  I am a Creative Dream Coach.

I create life-changing creative meditations which are actually Magic Potions.

I have two blogs:

I blog about the Creative Journaling/Healing/Meditation parts here.

I blog about the Creative Dream parts here.

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A few random facts about me:

I sew and knit my own clothes .  I make amazing paper dolls and cloth dolls. My house is painted hot pink and pale pink and deep purple and bright orange and aqua and deep electric blue and lots of other colours that “don’t go together”.

I play with makeup and am usually wearing 6 or 7 different shades of eyeshadows, glimmers and glitters. I am an adventurous traveler and explorer. I drink a lot of soy lattes and even though I work all the time I also spend quite a bit of time relaxing either at the spa or in a Lush bath.

My Story


Many years ago, as I was finishing high school and deciding what I wanted to take in University, I decided on Fashion Design. I had dome a bit of sewing but didn’t have a lot of experience “being creative” but something about the colour and patterns and style and play of it all really spoke to me.

This was my creative spirit trying to come to life.

Next I ended up in University in Toronto, Canada, far away from home (I’m from Winnipeg, Canada) and in a program that was really nothing like what I’d imagined. There wasn’t any play and I was quite consistently criticized for the way I worked with colour.

My poor baby creative spirit began to shrink under the stress and strain.

But I was learning so many amazing things about drawing and painting, the elements and principles of design and colour, patternmaking, style – so many cool things. I was also learning how to be creative under the demand of tight deadlines.

I was starting to discover little bubbles of creative play and possibility here and there, as I started to win a few awards and find my voice as a designer.

My fourth year though – everything changed.

Well I guess it started in my third year. I got a call one morning from my mom that my aunt’s cancer had returned, and to come back home, to Winnipeg, immediately. I rushed to the airport and bought at ticket for the next flight. My aunt passed away as I walked into the room.

Back in Toronto, I went to someone for grief counseling who recommended a book on spirituality that had helped her through her father’s passing. I started to read it, and remembered all my aunt’s new agey books I’d just inherited. My best friend and I dove into this new world and became absolutely obsessed with meditation and spiritual growth.

So, back to my fourth year of University. In Fashion Design you don’t write a thesis, you create a collection.

My creative spirit was coming to life in new ways and my intuitive voice was beginning to speak and neither of them wanted to create a fashion collection.

They wanted to make angel dolls.

Magic charm dolls. With healing energy.

I’m sure you can imagine how well this went over with my University profs. But I didn’t care. I was doing it. Everyone told me I was going to fail. My teachers couldn’t even help me because they didn’t know the first thing about making cloth dolls.

I spent that year totally in my own creative zone.

Exploring, experimenting – making a ton of mistakes. Working long long long long long hours each day in my dorm room and hardly going to class because when I did I just heard things like “you are going to fail“.

At the end of the year the collections were presented to a panel of judges from the industry who gave us 100% of our grade. I presented my angel dolls and the judges were thrilled.

I ended up in the top ten of my class. And I learned what happens when I listen to my intuitive creative voice. It’s hard, yes. Scary at times. A lot of work.

And it takes me to totally magical places.

But after University comes the real world and I struggled to figure out how my creative voice could help me pay the bills.

Thus began about ten years of working various jobs, basically trying to work as little as possible to keep myself afloat while giving all of my time and energy to growing my creative dreams.

I visualised. I did affirmations. I read everything I could get my hands on about making dreams real.

Slowly, slowly, slowly things grew. I went from textile art to costume design to hand painted textiles to textile pattern design to interior design to holistic interior design. Everything growing into the next. Sometimes supporting myself completely with my art and sometimes really really struggling financially.

But things started to come together. I started getting serious about my spiritual work, taking classes and eventually becoming accredited as a healer.

I became a spiritual guide, coach, mentor and teacher and found that I had a real gift for supporting others in making positive change, living the lives they wanted to be living and creating dreams come true.

I found that my work was powerful, effective and transformational – both for my clients and for me.

Now I’ve got the Creative Magic and I know how to use it.

No more “side job”.  No more struggling with money.

I’m a full time creative goddess. Actively and passionately working on my mission of overflowing this whole world with dreams come true, and enjoying pretty much every second of it.

 

me: self-portrait art journal page

I was interviewed about my work recently in a local paper:

(You can click on the images below to zoon in and read the article)


 

 

 

Phototour of my life:

My new haircut

My bliss room

My art room

Morning journaling

Monday morning Creative Genius Planning sessions at Starbucks

I am a LUSH addict

Also addicted to Moleskine Sketcbooks

On beautiful days I do take my work outside

I know this is true. For me and for you.

 

me in istanbul

Me in Istanbul. I love Turkey. So much.

My house is very colourful.

My naps fuel me

My office space

It's OK. This message shows up often in my journals.

 

I <3 my garden. This is my favourite tree.

 

Journaling at my art table

I need walks

And I need green.

 

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