WELCOME
TO…
THE CREATIVITY LAB
The Creativity Lab is designed especially for those of us who don't always feel creative enough or like a "real" artist or writer.
This is where you drop that misunderstanding and get on with making what you’re here to make.
You’re in the right place if…
You’re a strong starter ready to savor the sweetness of finishing, not the heavy shadow of projects left undone.
You’re haunted by creative ideas, but your follow-through feels ruled by mood and luck.
You’re overwhelmed by information and input—a creative soul stuck in the scroll who just wants to live a life where you make cool stuff!
You reside squarely in the dreaded Procrastination Zone. There are plenty of good reasons for it, but somehow, someway, you’re ready to move forward.
You know you’re creative, but the creating part reeks of frustration and loneliness.
You’re becoming friends with your creativity in a new way—maybe trying something out of your comfort zone or returning to a creative practice after a long time away… You have your materials and those creative desires pulling at your sleeve, but the starting part just hasn’t happened yet.
(you’re not behind!!)
Your creative efforts matter and are never lost.
When you get stuck comparing yourself to other people are making and wonder what the point of even trying is...
When you feel frozen looking at your art materials from across the room and consider just donating them to someone who will actually appreciate them...
When you spend hours pouring your heart into something only to wake up the next morning and feel a wave of disappointment by what you see...
When you planned to sit down and get some creative work done and it just didn't happen, again, and you watch yourself move it to tomorrow's to-do list for the twentieth time...
When you resent your timeline and believe the voice that says you're behind and it's too late to really go for it...
When you convince yourself that it wouldn't be this hard if it were meant for you.
The lies we tell ourselves about our creativity are painful and unoriginal.
They didn't emerge from a vacuum. While your personal story is yours, the patterns that keep you stuck are shared by so many people, and every one of us tends to hold them alone.
When we understand the inner critic, perfectionism, and creative avoidance as attempts at self-protection, it all becomes more workable. The resistance that holds you back becomes a vital part of the creative process when you know how to meet it.
It dissolves when met with consistent curiosity, compassion, and community that gets it.
And yeah, creative hurdles will always exist, even after decades of practice, but you don't need to become trapped in self-judgment when it feels impossible to start or when the initial enthusiasm you had for a project suddenly runs dry.
If you're here reading this, I know you have an entire world inside of you that only you can express. In The Creativity Lab, we're going to honor the bigness of our creative desires while breaking it down to doable creative assignments designed by you.
Let this be the moment you look back on as the turning point when you stopped fighting your creativity and started trusting it.
If we’re new to each other, I’m Maggy. I’m an artist, writer, and coach and I run Regarding Dew, a creative research studio.
I help people move through creative resistance, perfectionism, and creative fear so they can make progress on projects or dreams they can't face or hold alone—without forcing themselves.
My approach is rooted in curiosity, shame resilience, a love for deep knowledge and craft, and unwavering trust in your creative callings.
ON THE FREEDOM OF ASSIGNMENTS
Assignments come with built-in constraints. For one, there's an end date. And no matter how it turns out, something gets created.
But there's a downside to assignments, too. For most of us, our experience of assignments has been in the context of grades. Evaluation loomed over the process.
There's also putting them off to the last-minute—staying up late and slapping something together right before it's due. Even when you care about it… Even when you meant to start sooner. I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to reclaim assignments as adults.
Instead of being standardized, what if you made creative assignments that were completely unique and self-designed?
Instead of a tool for evaluation, assignments then become a purposeful container for experimentation.
Those same constraints that felt limiting (and even intimidating) when they’re handed to us by someone else? When you are rooted in creative choice the whole way through, self-designed assignments become a way of transforming creative dreams and projects into something that exists in the world instead of just in your head.
You deserve to see your creative desires in form! Even when it feels cringy, even when you want to start over again, or even if nobody else sees it but you.
You get to be restful & bold.
At ease & ambitious.
Brilliant & imperfect.
It’s time.