I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of sharing the creative struggle. Whether you’re a working creative, or pursuing creative endeavours alongside a day job, especially online it’s so easy to sugar coat our experiences and make it look easy from the outside. We all want to feel like we have our life and our work together, that we’re on top of things, making progress, and moving forward on our goals and dreams. But whenever I spend time with my favourite creative friends, conversation will always turn to the creative struggle and sharing our own highs and lows that comes with pursuing a life of creative freedom.

How many times in the past month have you admired someone online for their work and their successes and felt that sinking feeling in your stomach that it’s going to be impossible for you to reach your own goals and succeed in your path? Or is that just me? I’m drawn to creatives who share their story, their struggle, and give an honest presentation of their creative journey so far. The struggle is part of the journey and I think there’s something so refreshingly human about sharing it along the way.

Creative collaboration is something I've come to really love over the past year. After a lifetime of always being a go-it-alone kind of girl, working alongside other creatives and seeing the benefits of putting two different heads together to create something better than you could alone has helped me grow in so many ways as a creative. 

For someone who would openly admit to being somewhat of a control freak, and an introvert in every single way, creative collaboration at first completely petrified me. Opening up my process to the ideas and voice of others was scary business, and I still relish the areas of my work and side projects where I completely create alone. There are pros and cons to each, and in my personal experience a mix of both is the perfect balance, and today I wanted to talk through my experience of both and encourage you to consider creating together from time to time.