Welcome to the blue skies of your creativity, wonder and play
A gentle invitation to reconnect with your imagination, play, possibility and self-trust, even when life has felt cloudy for a while.
Your big, open blue sky is that spacious part of you that imagines, experiments, sees new possibilities and dares to dream. You don’t need to be artistic to be creative.
Your unique flavour of creativity might show up in problem-solving, storytelling, planning trips, experimenting with colour, cooking, seeing patterns others miss, building community, or finding a new way forward when things feel impossibly stuck.
This can be one of the first parts of us to disappear in burnout. It’s also the the key to reducing your anxiety, and the gateway to bring you more fully back to yourself.
Creativity that brings you back to yourself
When creating a life you love, creativity isn’t a luxury add-on. WayPower sees creativity and play as deeply human, deeply regulating, and often deeply revealing.
When life feels pressured, overwhelming or grey, creativity often becomes hidden under the surface. But hidden is not gone.
Sometimes it’s simply waiting for permission, safety and support to fully emerge.
No art skills needed
No matter the weather, the sky is still blue
We talk in WayPower about the weather of your emotions - the shifting internal conditions that can change so quickly: from stormy to flat, clear to foggy, heavy to sunny.
The truth is, no matter how stormy the weather, the blue sky has not disappeared.
In the same way, anxiety, overwhelm or emotional turbulence can make your creativity feel far away, when it’s still there beneath the surface, just waiting for you to reconnect to it.
Play and creativity are a gentle antidote to anxiety.
Creativity as the antidote to anxiety
Art, writing, music, movement and other creative processes all calm the amygdala: your brain’s alarm system. Creativity, laughter and play all move you from overwhelmed to grounded, shifting your perspective, and building a felt sense of capability.
For ADHD and Autistic brains especially, creativity is a powerful way to regulate your nervous system. It engages your interest, providing dopamine, and can open flow states, which transform scattered energy into a more grounded and meaningful focus.
Creating transformational shifts in perception and understanding
Your creativity is already here
You don’t need to think of yourself as creative in a conventional sense to belong here. Your blue sky is already present in the way you doodle as you solve problems, organise ideas in a different way to other people, notice connections, daydream, craft as you watch TV, or follow your latest fascinations.
Often the very things you’ve been taught to see as too much, too scattered, or too daydreamy are the very places where your creativity, originality and insight live.
WayPower gently helps you reconnect to your imagination and wonder with curiosity and compassion.
After a lifetime of thinking that creativity was for other people, I now lean into my imagination, play and curiosity every single day. The whole idea of WayPower and the sailboat came to me whilst experimenting with collage, and straight away I knew I wanted to beta test it with my coaching clients.
For me, life would be drab, boring and grey without consciously connecting to my blue sky in my work, my parenting and my life. I wish the same for you too. Who wouldn’t say yes to more fun, ease and joy?!
Creativity in coaching
WayPower weaves in playful, creative practices throughout your coaching journey, so you can reconnect to your blue sky. Creative invitations offer space to reflect on what you have been learning, notice what has shifted, and explore your experience using your right brain, as a way of fully integrating changes, and moving forward.
I may offer invitations to writing, drawing, painting, collage or exploring ideas through using objects and metaphor. It’s not about polish or performance. It’s a safe container forexpression, reducing anxiety, and many people rediscover their agency as well as a love for creative practice.
I sometimes invite people to write a haiku, such as this one written by Jo during a group programme:
The drowning woman
Finds herself supported by
Her very own sea change.
Do you want more personalised support?
If you would like a more personal space to explore what feels tangled, cloudy or ready for change, a WayPower arts-based 1:1 coaching session may help you get unstuck.
You don’t need to be at all artistic to benefit from exploring what’s going on for you, using pastels, paints or pencils. If you don’t believe me, you can have a look at some of the exploratory artwork I’ve made!
My WayPower arts-based 90-minute coaching sessions offer a calm, compassionate space to explore creatively what words alone can’t reach. Working in this way is especially supportive when you’re feeling anxious, stuck, or you simply want help reconnecting with the blue sky underneath all your emotional weather.
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Whatever your emotional weather has been lately, your creativity has not gone. It’s simply waiting for a little more room, kindness and support to come out of hiding.
Maintenance, rest and repair
Dry docking
Why WayPower?
I set up Positively ADHD because I believe in a different way forward.
People with ADHD have so many gifts and incredible ways of thinking which can make a huge contribution to the world. Yet so much nuance is lost in the deficit-based, medical model which sees ADHD as a list of “symptoms” that need to be “treated”.
Many of us who were late-diagnosed or have self-diagnosed, have spent our whole lives in survival mode, because we did not know that our brains and nervous systems were different. We may have spent many years believing we were broken and have probably struggled with periods of depression, anxiety and burnout.
Whilst I don’t underestimate the difficulties that ADHD can cause, I also know that when we feel creative, hopeful, and connected to our purpose, anything is possible for us and our amazing minds.
Support for sensitive and neurodivergent people navigating life, work and everything in between.