Creating Stillness

“Creating stillness is a welcoming and inspiring invitation to reconnect with our own wisdom and creativity. By fusing mindfulness with the expressive arts, we are guided in awakening our senses, healing our heart and freeing our spirit.” 

—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold

“A heartfelt step-by-step guidebook to the deep healing that art therapy can awaken.”

—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

"Equal parts inspiration and practical instruction, Rose skillfully demystifies creativity, offers a myriad of ways we can all tap into mindfulness through creative expression, and shows the healing power in doing so. This book is an invitation and a guide to living a more peaceful life through a creative practice. I will pull this off my bookshelf time and again and I think you will too. Highly recommend.”

—Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., author of Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice Third Edition

"Through the processes of mindfulness, ritual, mark making, surrendering and opening our curious minds to seeing the possibility around us, Rachel emphasizes the importance of honoring both our individual stories and our interconnectedness to all things. In a world that has become disconnected, permeated with fear and anxiety, Creating Stillness is a welcome and wise balm for the soul and should be on every bookshelf.”

—Tracey Verdugo, artist, teacher and author of Paint Mojo

“Creating Stillness successfully examines and combs through the inner workings of our emotional hardships in society’s current culture and climate, while also offering detailed insight on how to lift our heads up when we feel we have fallen. Rachel eloquently weaves her story into the narrative and instructs from a place of understanding, knowledge, and the empathy of a great and dear friend.”

—Alison Malee author of The Day Is Ready For You and This Is The Journey

“In troubling times, we seek solace, and if we’re lucky we find it. This book is solace, it’s a reminder that we’re capable of such staggeringly wonderful things, if only we slow enough to finally see. One of the most frustrating and confusing aspects of creative work is that while the act of creation can create such stillness in ourselves, it so often requires such great stillness to create at all. This beautiful book helps to not only find that stillness and peace, but to truly embrace and celebrate it when it comes. What a stunning cycle when you unlock it. What a gift, this book.”

—Tyler Knott Gregson, poet, author, Autistic

“I am often asked, what is the relationship between mindfulness and creativity? I am delighted now to be able to refer people to this wise and profound book. More than a simple "how to be mindful while making art" manual, this book explores the very nature of creativity itself and tackles relevant issues such as the nature of knowing and embodiment along the way. The book includes practical creative exercises I can’t wait to try. Highly recommended!”

—Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and the author of The Little Book of Being

• National outreach with focused outreach in Canada as well
• National review campaign
• Targeted pitches to art and mindfulness outlets
• Consumer-facing advertising
• Social media campaign