Winter Listening

A 7-Day Winter Art Journal Challenge for Creative Rest & Renewal

Begins with the Winter Solstice • December 21

Winter is not asking you to hurry.
It is asking you to listen.

Winter Listening is a gentle, free, email-delivered winter art journal challenge created for women who long for creativity without pressure, reflection without performance, and rest that feels meaningful.

Across seven quiet days, you’ll be guided through:

  • simple art journal prompts

  • reflective writing invitations

  • soft self-care rituals

  • and whispered companioning from The Deep Listener

All designed to help you slow down, soften inward, and gather yourself for the turning of the year.

What You’ll Receive

Each day you’ll receive a quiet note in your inbox that includes:

  • a brief poetic “listening” to set the tone

  • one art journal prompt

  • one writing reflection

  • one winter self-tending invitation

The prompts are intentionally:

  • slow

  • open-ended

  • and forgiving of real life

You can participate deeply or lightly.
There is no catching up.
There is no behind.

The Winter Listening Schedule

December 21 — Winter Solstice Opening
A ceremonial welcome + one sacred creative threshold practice.

December 26 – January 1 — The 7-Day Journey
Themes include:

  • Arriving

  • Stillness

  • Gathering Warmth

  • Shadow as Shelter

  • Memory & Layer

  • The Slow Spark

  • Carrying the Light Forward

All delivered gently by email so you can move at your own pace.

Who This Winter Art Journal Challenge Is For

This gathering is especially for you if:

  • You feel creatively tired but quietly hungry for beauty

  • You want to return to your art practice without pressure

  • You’re drawn to journaling, collage, watercolor, or layered paper play

  • You feel the call to slow down rather than push forward

  • You sense winter has something inward to offer you this year

No art experience is needed.
Only willingness.

What You’ll Need

Nothing fancy. Use what is already near you.

  • A journal or sketchbook

  • Any papers you’d like to layer (optional)

  • Something to write and mark-make with

  • A candle or small light (optional, but lovely)

This is about tending, not acquiring.

A Whisper About The Deep Listener

Throughout the challenge, you’ll be accompanied by soft, poetic “whispers” from The Deep Listener — a quiet archetypal presence who holds space for what is not yet ready to speak.

She does not instruct.
She witnesses.

And through that presence, you’ll be invited to listen more deeply to your own winter voice.

Your Invitation

If the end of the year feels loud…
If your soul feels tender or tired…
If you long to enter the new year more gathered than driven…

You are warmly invited to join us.

Let winter be more than a season this year.
Let it be a listening.

 Join the Winter Solstice Art Challenge

Free 7-Day Winter Art Journal Challenge
Begins with the Winter Solstice — December 21

(You’ll receive a confirmation and your first Solstice Threshold email as the season turns.)