I'm Cat and I help creative people like you break through internal blocks so you can achieve your goals and find confidence and fulfilment in self-expression.
I will get the ideas out of your head and into the world
As a child, I loved all kinds of arts, crafts, music, and stories. I had a great imagination, and I loved trying new things. It didn’t last. By the time I was a teenager, I had convinced myself that I was a dreadful writer, had no artistic skills, wasn’t musical and should stop trying.
But it wasn’t a single event that caused me to believe I was untalented and uncreative. It was a series of tiny events that I gave meaning to. I wasn't aware of what I was doing at the time, but the consequences were long lasting.
When I was 18, I was obsessed with Jilly Cooper’s books. I wrote a story in a similar style and showed it to a friend. She was very enthusiastic about it and I panicked. What if I had been wrong about being a terrible writer? What else was I wrong about? I took my story-which was handwritten because it was 1993–and I burned it. I didn’t write again until I was 40.
When I had my son, I rediscovered the world of art, crafts and storytelling. I picked up some creative hobbies again and found, as is often the case as you get older, that I cared much less about other people’s opinions.
I eventually started writing again, and I became interested in why I could write easily, even joyfully, at some times, but I couldn’t do anything creative at all at others.
I learned about the importance of mindset when I read a book about the law of attraction on holiday. I had picked it up out of interest rather than because I believed in it, but it sparked an idea in me. The vast majority of what I read was about making money and I wondered if it was possible to apply the same methods to becoming more creative.
I started learning hypnotherapy to see how I could use it to change my mindset towards writing. After this, I kept studying, and went on to learn NLP, strategic life coaching, CBT and REBT, all with a view to how they could apply to the creative process.
I spent time determining exactly why I found it so hard to write or draw or knit when I love doing those things and I have an abundance of ideas.
Using what I learned, I have developed a program to help other creative people change their mindset to express themselves fully.
I did it for myself, and I can do it for you.
If you are interested in finding out more about how you can achieve your goals, then look at my range of services here.
If you want to know more about me, here are a few facts…
- I have a Blue Peter badge for a drawing I did in the 1980s.
- My most outrageous boast is that I make the best chocolate brownies my friends have ever had. I’m not good at keeping the secret recipe a secret. I will happily tell anyone who asks.
- My favourite song is Lazy Line Painter Jane by Belle and Sebastian because I believe in picking one when you are 21 and never, ever changing it. I play it when I want to feel grateful that I'm not 21 any more.
- When I was young, I aspired to have so much money that I could buy any book I wanted. I still aspire to this, but now I would add having the time and space to read them all.
- I have a cat. Or rather, I serve a cat who chooses to live in my house. My phone camera reel is 74% pictures of him looking cute and 12% of him looking incredibly stupid. The rest are pictures of cake.
