Hi!
francophile, girl mom, & flower lover… dedicated to helping you get the freedom and creative life you’ve been searching for.
Hi!
francophile, girl mom, & flower lover… dedicated to helping you get the freedom and creative life you’ve been searching for.
Hi!
dedicated to helping you get the freedom and creative life you’ve been searching for.
You are creative.
You know it deep down. You feel it.
And yet…
Something doesn’t sit quite right. “Is this what life is supposed to feel like?” you wonder.
Perhaps you were creative long ago, but life got in the way. Now you feel lost.
Maybe you followed a creative path, but as the pressure mounted so did perfectionism, imposter syndrome, anxiety, and overwhelm. The world, society, and those around you started dictating what your creativity should look and feel like. You abandoned yourself and believed them.
Or perhaps the fear has been too great to even begin. The days turned to years of tamping down your authentic desires until you stopped dreaming altogether. You wake up realizing life lacks color and the world seems small.
If this sounds familiar, I’m so glad you found me.
My story is quite similar.
Creativity both broke me AND healed me.
I’ve been a professional artist for well over a decade. I did all the things. I wrote a best-selling book about art, opened a brick-and-mortar store, found myself on the cover of Martha Stewart Living, and sold products into retail stores worldwide. But just like you, there is an “And Yet…”
I was empty and unfulfilled. Despite being an artist, my creative heart was bruised and broken. There were a lot of voices in my ear, including the meanness of my own, dwindling my confidence. I equated creativity with pressure and pain. I lost myself.
After hitting a low point in 2020, I began a new journey…into new forms of art, therapy, mindfulness, healing, spirituality, nervous system regulation, literature, and many other modalities & forms of self-help.
The pieces of me started coming back. (I even discovered some new pieces I didn’t even know were lost.)
In essence, I came home to myself.
What I’ve concluded is this: Living a creative life can crack open a world of wonder, joy, peace, fulfillment, and wholeness…if you let it. It is possible and it is for you. I know this beyond a shadow of a doubt because you are a creative being. It is how you were made.
There is a balm waiting to heal you whether you are feeling uninspired and lost, jaded and burnt out, or paralyzed in fear.
Creatives suffer. And they don’t need to.
My heart is for you and your creative heart.
You are creative.
You know it deep down. You feel it.
And yet…
Something doesn’t sit quite right. “Is this what life is supposed to feel like?” you wonder.
Perhaps you were creative long ago, but life got in the way. Now you feel lost.
Maybe you followed a creative path, but as the pressure mounted so did perfectionism, imposter syndrome, anxiety, and overwhelm. The world, society, and those around you started dictating what your creativity should look and feel like. You abandoned yourself and believed them.
Or perhaps the fear has been too great to even begin. The days turned to years of tamping down your authentic desires until you stopped dreaming altogether. You wake up realizing life lacks color and the world seems small.
If this sounds familiar, I’m so glad you found me.
My story is quite similar.
Creativity both broke me AND healed me.
I’ve been a professional artist for well over a decade. I did all the things. I wrote a best-selling book about art, opened a brick-and-mortar store, found myself on the cover of Martha Stewart Living, and sold products into retail stores worldwide. But just like you, there is an “And Yet…”
I was empty and unfulfilled. Despite being an artist, my creative heart was bruised and broken. There were a lot of voices in my ear, including the meanness of my own, dwindling my confidence. I equated creativity with pressure and pain. I lost myself.
After hitting a low point in 2020, I began a new journey…into new forms of art, therapy, mindfulness, healing, spirituality, nervous system regulation, literature, and many other modalities & forms of self-help.
The pieces of me started coming back. (I even discovered some new pieces I didn’t even know were lost.)
In essence, I came home to myself.
What I’ve concluded is this: Living a creative life can crack open a world of wonder, joy, peace, fulfillment, and wholeness…if you let it. It is possible and it is for you. I know this beyond a shadow of a doubt because you are a creative being. It is how you were made.
There is a balm waiting to heal you whether you are feeling uninspired and lost, jaded and burnt out, or paralyzed in fear.
Creatives suffer. And they don’t need to.
My heart is for you and your creative heart.
You are creative.
You know it deep down. You feel it.
And yet…
Something doesn’t sit quite right. “Is this what life is supposed to feel like?” you wonder.
Perhaps you were creative long ago, but life got in the way. Now you feel lost.
Maybe you followed a creative path, but as the pressure mounted so did perfectionism, imposter syndrome, anxiety, and overwhelm. The world, society, and those around you started dictating what your creativity should look and feel like. You abandoned yourself and believed them.
Or perhaps the fear has been too great to even begin. The days turned to years of tamping down your authentic desires until you stopped dreaming altogether. You wake up realizing life lacks color and the world seems small.
If this sounds familiar, I’m so glad you found me.
My story is quite similar.
Creativity both broke me AND healed me.
I’ve been a professional artist for well over a decade. I did all the things. I wrote a best-selling book about art, opened a brick-and-mortar store, found myself on the cover of Martha Stewart Living, and sold products into retail stores worldwide. But just like you, there is an “And Yet…”
I was empty and unfulfilled. Despite being an artist, my creative heart was bruised and broken. There were a lot of voices in my ear, including the meanness of my own, dwindling my confidence. I equated creativity with pressure and pain. I lost myself.
After hitting a low point in 2020, I began a new journey…into new forms of art, therapy, mindfulness, healing, spirituality, nervous system regulation, literature, and many other modalities & forms of self-help.
The pieces of me started coming back. (I even discovered some new pieces I didn’t even know were lost.)
In essence, I came home to myself.
What I’ve concluded is this: Living a creative life can crack open a world of wonder, joy, peace, fulfillment, and wholeness…if you let it. It is possible and it is for you. I know this beyond a shadow of a doubt because you are a creative being. It is how you were made.
There is a balm waiting to heal you whether you are feeling uninspired and lost, jaded and burnt out, or paralyzed in fear.
Creatives suffer. And they don’t need to.
My heart is for you and your creative heart.
We’re going to bring you back to you. You are Dorothy wearing the ruby slippers. You may not see them yet, but you will…
We’re going to bring you back to you. You are Dorothy wearing the ruby slippers. You may not see them yet, but you will…
We’re going to bring you back to you. You are Dorothy wearing the ruby slippers. You may not see them yet, but you will…
Valerie McKeehan is a renowned artist, teacher, and host of The Peaceful Creative podcast.
In 2012 she founded the global brand, Lily & Val.
Throughout her art career, she worked commercially with clients like Starbucks, Anthropologie, TLC, Brit+Co, and The Food Network, and published a best-selling book with Workman Publishing about hand-lettering.
After the change that 2020 and two little ones created in her world, Valerie began making art for art’s sake again, exploring painting and pastels that led to commissioning her original art pieces and opening up her passion project: education for artists to unlock their creativity and heal their creative hearts.
She now offers 1:1 coaching and an artist membership to her community while she continues to create artwork that moves her soul.
Valerie McKeehan is a renowned artist, teacher, and host of The Peaceful Creative podcast.
In 2012 she founded the global brand, Lily & Val.
Throughout her art career, she worked commercially with clients like Starbucks, Anthropologie, TLC, Brit+Co, and The Food Network, and published a best-selling book with Workman Publishing about hand-lettering.
After the change that 2020 and two little ones created in her world, Valerie began making art for art’s sake again, exploring painting and pastels that led to commissioning her original art pieces and opening up her passion project: education for artists to unlock their creativity and heal their creative hearts.
She now offers 1:1 coaching and an artist membership to her community while she continues to create artwork that moves her soul.
Valerie McKeehan is a renowned artist, teacher, and host of The Peaceful Creative podcast.
In 2012 she founded the global brand, Lily & Val.
Throughout her art career, she worked commercially with clients like Starbucks, Anthropologie, TLC, Brit+Co, and The Food Network, and published a best-selling book with Workman Publishing about hand-lettering.
After the change that 2020 and two little ones created in her world, Valerie began making art for art’s sake again, exploring painting and pastels that led to commissioning her original art pieces and opening up her passion project: education for artists to unlock their creativity and heal their creative hearts.
She now offers 1:1 coaching and an artist membership to her community while she continues to create artwork that moves her soul.
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