Creative, sensitive women: you’re in the right place to move through your resistance, meet the bigness of your creative longing, and get out of your own way—without fixing and forcing—so that you can feel free to be imperfectly, exquisitely yourself.
You are here to live out loud.
I’m Maggy, a writer, artist, creative coach, and founder of the creative research studio Regarding Dew. I help women like you stay stubborn in your creative longings and be more authentically yourself through seeing your life as a creative practice.
My life is devoted to supporting you to avoid the number one regret of the dying: not having the courage to be yourself.
I have unwavering trust in your creative gifts and your ability to honor those gifts, especially if you’ve tried so many times before. I’m here for the deep-feelers and the creative thinkers who don’t fit easily into boxes. Your authentic self is welcome here. Your creativity is important and needed.
Hermann Hesse wrote nearly a century ago: My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action.
Alongside enormous fear and the inner voices of doubt, these words are my compass. My life can be summarized as a ruthless pursuit of cultivating beauty and meaning.
In my early 20s, I had a strong feeling to serve the dying and the newly born, and so I started at the beginning and worked as a doula, doubling up on work night and day and making art when I could. I hit a breaking a point where what I was doing, although meaningful, wasn’t aligned with my creative dreams. So I sold and packed everything I owned and moved to Leipzig, Germany—a city I had never been to before—and spent formative years there.
I used to always look around at what others were doing and feel behind, like I was never doing enough, like I was never focusing on the right thing, and that what felt right would never actually work out. Taking the less-traveled path in search of the best soil for my gifts has been outrageously complex, isolating, liberating, and demanding. It’s also the most fulfilling choice I continue to make every day. Through years of betting on this deeper pull, I’ve fought to reach the depth of trust that I now carry: I am fully on the right path for me.
I know how lonely and exhausting it is to struggle to trust your creative longings. You are meant to be yourself, and you are so much more than you think you are. I'm here to support your connection to who you are and your creative power.
"I went from believing I couldn’t write, let alone establish a writing habit, to a person who enjoys expressing herself through ‘printed’ words. Because of my work with Maggy, my grandchildren and perhaps others will have the opportunity to know me better through my written stories."
Gail
“Witnessing others and their vulnerability and process has been so healing and affirming in this process. I have found myself regarding myself in a wholly new way. A refresh. I am regarding myself as an important and creative person.”
Tooya
"Maggy has created a space that is not only creative but filled with gentle curiosity and endless opportunities for new perspectives. I felt seen, heard, held, and encouraged all within an hour and a half. I left Maggy’s workshop with a renewed lust for writing and sharing!"
Elizabeth
“Maggy has cultivated a safe and welcoming space and has attracted people who are also safe and welcoming. And I’m not the only one who feels this way. The last event I attended people were continually commenting on how safe it feels to share there. It has been remarkably freeing to realize how easy it can be to sit down and write and then to share that with others. I’m watching my fears subside and starting to realize that my writing actually makes a difference for people and that perhaps my voice is worth putting out there.”
Ruth
If I am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change the world without a certain dream or vision for it, I must make use of every possibility there is not only to speak about my utopia, but also to engage in practices consistent with it.
Paulo Freire