Mindfulness and Art Tammy Gilley Mindfulness and Art Tammy Gilley

You’ve been gathering all along

You don’t always call it art.
Sometimes it’s the way you tear the edge of a receipt and tuck it into your notebook.
The way you pause at a faded photo in a thrift store bin, feeling its weight even before you know why.
The way you arrange your day around a sliver of light that only enters your studio at 3 p.m.

You are already creating.

You don’t need permission to begin.
You’ve already begun—in whispered ways, in gentle acts of noticing, in the quiet gathering of a thousand small things.

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Mindfulness and Art Tammy Gilley Mindfulness and Art Tammy Gilley

Create a Gentle Creative Ritual

There’s something sacred about the moment you sit down to create—not to produce or perfect, but simply to be with your own creative unfolding. In a world that moves fast and praises output, choosing to tend your creativity with gentleness is a quiet act of resistance. And a radical act of self-trust.

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Nurture Your Soul

In a world that prizes output and urgency, soul-tending can feel radical. But here, within the rhythm of Artistry & Alchemy, it is essential.

To nurture your soul is to honor your inner landscape as sacred.
It’s to slow down long enough to hear what your heart is whispering.
It’s to understand that the quiet moments—the tea breaks, the morning pages, the walks without purpose—are not distractions from your art.

They are the art.

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Celebrate Your Creative Magic

There is a spark in you.

It’s not something you have to earn, prove, or explain.
It’s there when you’re painting at the kitchen table, scribbling in a notebook, arranging wildflowers in a jar, or letting your mind wander in the shower.
It lives in the little moments of curiosity, intuition, and beauty-making that come so naturally, they’re easy to overlook.

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A Place to Gather the Threads

There are seasons when the throughline feels clear—when the work flows, the pages fill, and your hands know exactly what they’re doing.

And then there are seasons like this one.

When what you have are pieces.
Snippets.
Whispers.
Unfinished phrases. A color that won’t leave you alone. An image you keep sketching again and again. A sentence you tear from a book and tape to your wall, not knowing why.

This, too, is a kind of making.

This is gathering.

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Honor Your Wisdom

There is a quiet kind of knowing that lives in your hands.

It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t rush. It doesn’t demand perfection.
Instead, it hums beneath the surface—steady, lived-in, true.

This is the wisdom you’ve earned through experience, through showing up, through years of becoming. And in the creative life, it’s often the very thing we forget to trust.

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Unleash Your Creative Bliss

Are you ready to release the grip of your inner critic and let your creative spirit shine? Grab your favorite art journal or sketchbook, a splash of color, and open your heart—let’s explore the perfectly imperfect world of art journaling.

I’m delighted to introduce you to my new 30-page guide, Creative Bliss Unleashed: Your Guide to Artful Journaling with Heart & Soul.  I designed this guide to help you discover, or rediscover, the joy of creativity without the burden of needing to “get it right.” It’s about embracing the messiness, finding the magic within, and nurturing your spirit as you create.

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