Resources
Writing, tools, and conversation for artists navigating creativity and health. Everything here is free to explore, and most of it is a good place to start before working together.
Read and listen
Free writing and paid podcast episodes, all on Substack.
The Substack
Three times a week: the Sunday Dear Artist letter, the Wednesday newsletter, and a paid podcast episode. Free subscribers get the writing. Paid subscribers get everything.
The Podcast
A paid-subscriber series working through the Creative Health Cartography framework land by land, plus monthly in-depth artist analyses. The first episode is free.
The Blog
Articles on creativity, health, and the terrain where the two meet. Free to read, no subscription required.
The Workbook
A self-guided journey through the six areas where health and creativity intersect. Built from twenty years of research and direct interviews with working artists.
Over a hundred pages of exercises and prompts for mapping your own creative health at your own pace. Available as a PDF download, a signed print copy shipped by Kathryn, or an unsigned print copy through Amazon.
More from Kathryn
Twenty years of writing at the intersection of creativity, craft, and mental health.
My Books
The full catalog on Amazon, including Crochet Saved My Life, Hook to Heal, The Artist’s Mind, and more.
kathrynvercillo.com
Kathryn’s professional site for writing, editing, and her broader creative practice.
Questions
About this work and how it fits into your life.
Are you a licensed therapist?
I hold a master’s in psychology and have spent years researching mental health, though I hold no clinical license and work as a researcher and writer rather than a licensed therapist. This work sits alongside therapy rather than replacing it. It is reflection and pattern recognition offered with care, a starting point for your own exploration, rather than diagnosis or treatment.
How is this different from coaching or spiritual mapping?
Coaching tends to be goal-directed, focused on setting targets and driving toward outcomes. This work is reflective. It reads the patterns already in your creative life and offers them back, so you decide what matters and what to do. Services with names like soul mapping or life cartography tend to draw on astrology or spiritual frameworks, while my approach is psychology-based and evidence-informed. It also sits apart from clinical assessment and from generic wellness tools, because it was built for artists, writers, and makers, and for the particular ways health shows up in creative work.
How will you describe what you find?
You will notice language like “this may reflect” or “what I notice is” rather than declarations about who you are or what your work means. I make offerings, not pronouncements. You know things about yourself that no amount of conversation can fully reveal, and the map is a starting point for your own continued exploration.
What is the difference between the Starter Package and a Navigation Session?
The Starter Package is the full mapping experience and the place to begin: the intake conversations, your written and visual map, and three navigation sessions. A Navigation Session on its own is for two kinds of people. Those who want to keep working after completing a Starter Package, and those who want regular sessions without the mapping work, ongoing conversations that sit close to therapy or coaching while being neither.
What if a video call is hard for me?
Your sessions are yours to shape. Video is the default, and at no extra cost you can choose a voice message exchange, a text or email exchange, or a phone call instead. The aim is a format where you can take in what your map holds.
Have another question?
Where do you fall on the map?
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