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Welcome to my blog space. This is where I brain dump my thoughts and discoveries, because everyone needs one.

I am a woman who creates, moves through the world, and nurtures life — and all three inform my work inspired by culture daily.

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Process, practice, and permission.

Creativity

Staying With an Idea Long Enough to Hear It

Some ideas eventually become work. Others dissolve. But even those leave something behind — a shift in perspective, a deeper understanding of what truly matters to me.

Carmen Gowie

5 days ago1 min read

Making Things When No One Is Watching

On creating without performance, permission, or audience — why private acts of making shape the work that eventually gets seen.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 161 min read

Process Over Product

Why creative process matters more than outcomes, and how slowing down, uncertainty, and unfinished work shape deeper creativity.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 161 min read

Creativity Is Not a Career, It’s a Way of Being

A reflection on creativity as a way of living, not a job title — returning to creative instinct, identity, and meaning beyond productivity.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 121 min read

Movement, memory, meaning.

Travel

Travel as a Creative Reset & Learning to Be a Guest

When my creativity feels heavy, I move. Not always far. Not always intentionally. Sometimes it’s just enough to step outside familiar surroundings and let the world interrupt my thinking. Travel resets me because it dissolves expectation. I’m no longer operating inside routines that tell me who I am or how I should behave. I become more observant, less reactive. Ideas surface differently when I’m away. They arrive unpolished. Fragmented. Honest. I don’t force them into shape.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 172 min read

What Moving Through the World Gives Back

I don’t travel to escape my life. I travel to return to it differently. There is something about movement that rearranges the inner landscape. New streets, unfamiliar sounds, different rhythms — they loosen the grip of routine and remind me that perspective is never fixed. Movement has a way of loosening what’s become rigid. When I step outside familiar surroundings, the internal noise softens. I stop performing versions of myself shaped by routine and expectation, and instea

Carmen Gowie

Jan 162 min read

Places Don’t Speak Loudly, You Have to Listen

Some places don’t announce themselves. They don’t demand attention or try to impress. They exist quietly, waiting to be noticed rather than consumed. These are the places that stay with me the longest. When I travel, I’ve learned to resist the urge to document everything immediately. I let moments pass without capture. I walk without purpose. I sit without agenda. Listening to a place means allowing it to be what it is, not what I need it to be. From the people, the culture t

Carmen Gowie

Jan 161 min read

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Motherhood

What My Children Teach Me About Making

My children do not ask for permission before they begin. They don’t wait for clarity or confidence. They start with instinct — responding to curiosity, boredom, or a sudden idea that feels urgent in the moment. Watching them make things or create has reshaped how I understand creativity. They approach creation without hierarchy. A drawing, a story, a question — all are given equal weight. Nothing has to be exceptional to be worth starting. The act of making is enough. There i

Carmen Gowie

Jan 172 min read

Creating in the In-Between

My work is made in fragments — in the pauses between responsibility, in the quiet moments that appear and disappear without warning.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 142 min read

Motherhood Is the Most Creative Work I’ve Ever Done

A deeper reflection on motherhood as creative labour — how care, adaptation, and presence reshape creativity, time, and identity.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 132 min read

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This space is for process, reflection, and permission. For unfinished thoughts, quiet breakthroughs, and the unseen work behind making things.

Here, I write about creativity as a way of being — how ideas form, how doubt shows up, how culture shapes what we create, and how returning to our creative instincts can change how we live and work.

If you’re looking for certainty, you may not find it here. But if you’re looking for honesty, rhythm, and room to begin again — you’re in the right place.

Staying With an Idea Long Enough to Hear It

Some ideas eventually become work. Others dissolve. But even those leave something behind — a shift in perspective, a deeper understanding of what truly matters to me.

Carmen Gowie

5 days ago1 min read

Making Things When No One Is Watching

On creating without performance, permission, or audience — why private acts of making shape the work that eventually gets seen.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 161 min read

Process Over Product

Why creative process matters more than outcomes, and how slowing down, uncertainty, and unfinished work shape deeper creativity.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 161 min read

Creativity Is Not a Career, It’s a Way of Being

A reflection on creativity as a way of living, not a job title — returning to creative instinct, identity, and meaning beyond productivity.

Carmen Gowie

Jan 121 min read