Creativity to Calm the Storm

Use creativity to regulate your nervous system—and find your way forward. This circle is for creatives, entrepreneurs, and builders whose best ideas and resilience come after their nervous system settles.
Coming soon
TBD
Live on Zoom
1× a month

What to Expect

Here's what you can expect from your session with us:

Holding What's Heavy
Today I'd like to help hold what's heavy, ____.
Share something that feels heavy or hard to hold.
Planting Seeds of Hope
Today, I'm planting these seeds of hope ____.
Share something you're looking forward to or actively calling in.
Nourishing the Garden
You can nourish my garden by sending me ____.
Ask your community for the kind of support that would feel most helpful.

*You're always welcome to share as much or as little as feels right.

Who This Group Is For

A facilitated support space where creativity is used as a nervous system tool—not a productivity metric. Together, we use creative processes to: Downshift stress and cognitive overload; Restore a sense of agency and internal safety; Access insight, problem-solving, and new perspective; Reconnect to the part of you that knows how to build—without burning out. This is not an art class. It's not a mastermind or critique space. It's creativity as regulation, repair, and recalibration.

You might be a:
  • You're a creative, entrepreneur, or systems-builder
  • Your mind feels busy, scattered, or stuck
  • You want to solve problems without forcing solutions
  • You sense that creativity helps you regulate—but rarely make time for it
  • You do not need to identify as an artist. You just need a nervous system that could use some room to breathe.
Especially for you if you:
  • Want safety over performance, process over polish
  • Want choice over expectation
What We Practice Together
  • Free writing, visual mapping, or creative play
  • Story, metaphor, and symbolic thinking
  • Somatic awareness and sensory grounding
  • Silence, reflection, and choice-based sharing
  • There is no "good" or "finished" work here. The process is the point.

You don't need to calm the storm by pushing harder. You can calm it by creating differently. Come build clarity, capacity, and calm—one creative moment at a time.

Meeting Schedule
1× a month
Group Size
10
Cost/Pricing
Free
Registration Process
Join the waitlist to be notified when this group launches.
Facilitator Info
Not provided
Additional Notes
At LionFlower Studio, creativity is not treated as a luxury—it's a biological necessity. We believe: Creative expression restores nervous system flexibility, which is essential for resilience, leadership, and sustainable work. This circle centers: Safety over performance, Process over polish, Choice over expectation.
Meet Your Educator

Get to know the experienced educator who will guide you on your journey.

Maya McDaniel Bailey
Maya McDaniel Bailey
Director of Development
Maya McDaniel Bailey, NCC, LPC (Licensed in Alabama) is ready to create the space you need to flourish in creativity and community. She will come alongside the wisdom of your body, and the strength of your relationships to create the container of safety you need to explore what hurts, what grief needs to move, what relationships need boundaries. Maya loves working with moms who want to increase their connection to their kids, and want to know how boosting their creativity in their lives. Maya knows shared experiences—especially reflective and creative ones—signal safety to the nervous system, allowing it to soften out of survival mode. All Maya's work is offered virtually, giving you a private, convenient, and accessible way to receive support.

Frequently Asked Questions

01

What is grief coaching?

Grief coaching is a space to feel and move your grief in real time. We use simple practices like creative writing, movement, and reflection. This is not about fixing you. It is about helping your body process what it is holding.

02

How is this different from therapy?

Coaching and community care is about witnessing your pain and holding it together all while figuring out how to keep going. This work focuses on what you feel in your body right now.We do not pathologize your pain. No diagnosing or treatment. We move at your pace and use creativity to support your nervous system.

03

What kinds of grief do you support?

I work with women moving through many forms of loss. This includes death, divorce, illness, fertility struggles, and identity shifts. Sometimes we are just grieving for the collective, for the loss of safety for so many. My deepest work is with best friend loss and the changes that follow.

04

What happens in a 1:1 session?

Each session is simple and focused. We start with what feels most present for you. Then we teach about creative and body-based practices to help you move through it. You leave with something you can return to on your own.