
I’m here to help you thrive as a creative professional.
You are a musician, writer, artist, designer, photographer, entrepreneur. You work in the arts, or a creative industry such as TV, film, fashion, or publishing.
Perhaps you’re taking a new direction with your work. You’ve reached a certain level of success, but you want to go further. Or you just want to keep up with the rapid pace of change in your industry.
Maybe you want to do your next big project with less drama, fewer sleepless nights. You want more balance, more fun – more inspiration.
If any of this feels like you, then welcome! You’re in the right place.
My name is Sheryl, and I help creatives find the success they want, making work they love. Because what you make matters.
Creative Thinking
Tools, tips and resources for living your most creative life
What I’ve learned from other creatives
All creatives have much to learn from each other. Here’s what people from other fields have taught me, as a writer.
Why you need a reset routine
Most creative lives are full of interruptions, disruptions, curveballs. Or even just holidays! Here’s how to get back into flow quickly
The 10 keys to a successful creative business
Even if you don’t think of your creative work as a business, this will help
Seven ways to rest
Feeling weary? Sleep not helping? Discover the seven types of tiredness, and how to recover from each
100 Ideas For Play Dates or Artist Dates
Play is essential for creative thinking. But as adults, we can forget how to! So here are 100 ideas to start with.
Adults still need play. Especially creatives.
Play is how we learn, how we relax. And make space to think more creatively
Are you ready to grow your creative business? Coaching to help you thrive, not just survive

My 10-week group coaching course starts on October 7.
For creatives of all kinds, these small group sessions cover all aspects of the creative life. For the ten weeks, we’ll meet every Tuesday on Zoom at 7.30pm (UK time). In the 90-minute sessions we’ll discuss:
- Managing your time, energy and focus
- Dealing with procrastination, perfectionism, distraction
- Talking about your work with confidence
- Marketing your services and building an audience for your work
- Pricing, packages and creating new income streams
- Balancing your creative projects with the admin that comes with running a business
These are small groups of up to 12 people, so they’re supportive and fun with coaching from me but also input and support from the other brilliant creatives in the group. We learn from each other!
If you’re an experienced professional, it will give your business and your creative practice a health-check and maybe introduce some new ideas. If you’re just starting out, it will help you set up for success.
The cost is £595. If you’d like a quick Zoom chat with me to see if it would be right for you, schedule that here. But I also offer a no-quibble money back guarantee if it’s not for you. So you literally have nothing to lose! Click below to find out more – or to reserve your place.
Adults need play too. Especially creatives.
Making time to play, explore, try new things without needing it to yield an immediate result is an essential part of any creative practice. When you’re self-employed and overstretched, it can also be the part you neglect!
This short, practical book explains why you might need to bring more playfulness into your life and work – and gives 365 ideas to start you off. This book is for you if:
- Your creative work is feeling grey, uninspired, heavy and difficult.
- You’ve read Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way but never found time for the Artist Dates (or you couldn’t think what to do).
- You want to bring more playfulness into your life.
- You’ve lost touch with your creativity and you want to come back to it.
- It’s been a long, long time since you’ve given yourself a break.
It will help you get into flow with your creative work more easily, step back and see what’s really important (and what’s just busywork), feel more inspired and alive – and just have more fun!
Available from Amazon, at £8.99 (paperback) or £5.99 for Kindle. I appreciate that not everyone wants to use Amazon, so you can also buy the eBook directly from me for £5.99. (Works with all eReaders.)

Making It
Creatives at the very top of their game share their thoughts on success, failure and the creative life
The Missing Project: making the invisible visible
Deirdre Kashdan spent 27 years guarding a secret. Now she’s using her art to reveal it, showing it’s never too late to make art that matters
The Creative Life of Anish Kapoor
One of Britain’s best-known artists on creative routines, meditation as a tool, and what he does with work that doesn’t yet work.
14 things Brandon Sanderson can teach us about writing
With over 40m book sales and a Kickstarter that raised over $41m, this author has lessons for all creatives
What Lewis and Tolkien can teach us about creative work
The Mythmakers is a book about friendship, faith, and the power of creative community. Tolkien and Lewis still have wisdom to share
DJ Paulette in the house!
A DJ pioneer who is still going strong, Paulette has done it all. With style.
You don’t need funding to make your art
You just need to begin. That’s how the magic really happens.
Success Stories
Here’s what some of my coaching clients say about me.