my story
i’ve always been a creative.
i have a big imagination, a lot of feelings, and a need to make things.
it wasn’t until i tried to survive by fitting in that i realized how much i was loosing myself.
using up my creative energy on
performing, masking, shrinking.
i spent years trying to succeed in a world that wasn’t designed for me.
i tried being who i was “supposed” to be — productive, pleasing, polished.
i tried to change. i chased dreams. i manifested.
i also burned out. collapsed. questioned everything.
my biggest breakthrough didn’t come from achieving more.
it came when i stopped asking, “how do i get what i want?”
and started asking, “who am i if i don’t want anything at all?”
that’s when i found what i was actually seeking:
freedom. truth. creativity that comes from being, not performing.
through spiritual study, a lot of unlearning, and experimenting with different somatic practices, i finally came home to myself — autistic, sensitive, visionary, and wildly not built for the status quo.
now certified in my favorite somatic practice; inner voice facilitation, i’ve blended somatic therapy with playful reclamation to help other misfits, artists, and neurodivergent souls do the same.
to unmask. to reconnect.
to stop betraying their truth to succeed in systems that never saw them.
your life doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s.
it can just be yours.
that is how The Bad Creatives was born.
what is masking?
why somatic?
Your body holds the truth your mind can’t always access.
scientists have caught up to what artists, ritual, and magick has always used.
quantum physics quite literally proves this.
if you’re anything like me, you like to know why. why is somatic coaching effective? how does it work?
most of us were taught to fix our lives from the neck up — mindset hacks, productivity tricks, “positive thinking.”
trauma, stress, creative blocks, and burnout don’t exist in the mind alone.
they live in the body.
if we want real change — embodied, lasting change — we have to go deeper than thought.
this is where somatic work comes in.
“soma” means body. not just your muscles or posture, but the whole living intelligence of your being. somatic work is about reconnecting with that intelligence: listening to it, processing stuck emotions through it, and allowing your body to complete what it never got to finish (fight, cry, shake, scream, collapse, laugh, feel.)
trauma is stored in the nervous system, not just in memory.
when something overwhelming happens and we can’t escape, the body braces — literally. muscles tighten. breath shortens. your system goes into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. if you never get to complete that response, the tension stays trapped in your tissues and nervous system.
the thinking brain (neocortex) can’t override the survival brain.
you can’t affirm your way out of a freeze response. that’s why talk therapy alone often hits a wall. the body needs to be involved.
somatic practices work directly with the nervous system.
through breath, movement, sensation, sound, and presence, we signal safety. we let the body finish what it couldn’t. we restore flow.
and that’s when creativity, clarity, and confidence return
not because we “figured it out,” but because we finally moved through it.