Hey, Brave Soul 🙌🏽 I'm glad you’re here.
Mostly Brave offers stories, songs, and support for us: those who want to show up with fierce love, courageous creativity, and kindness in a world running on fear.
I’m Christine, an author, singer, illustrator, and filmmaker (and a neurospicy mermaid🧜🏼♀️ who thrives in the ocean, with funky dance and daily devotions). I believe that your wild heart and your authentic creative voice are medicine for these times. Yet when we share our truth, hit ‘send’ or ‘publish,’ or step up to the mic, it’s effing risky!
That’s when limiting beliefs show up. Maybe it’s anxiety roiling in your gut, a wicked wave of self-consciousness, or a cloud of dullness, doubts, or distractions:
🤷🏼♀️ Is this good enough? Does it even belong? It’s too weird, nobody’s gonna like it.
😩 Gotta do that one thing first, better make money or clean closets.
😱 I’m too old, I don’t look good enough, let’s go get some chips. And wine.
Sound familiar? These inner voices and emotional patterns are part of me, but they’re NOT the boss of me. Or you! It helps to separate my anxious inner child parts from my core self. I affectionately call them my Monkeys of Fear 🙉🙊🙈 Check this out:
In our Mostly Brave creative community,
We acknowledge the Monkeys of Fear that steal our time and energy. PS: It’s not your fault if “Just Do It!” doesn’t work for you. Our fears are deeply held social programs (or internalized patriarchy) designed to keep us quiet and submissive.
As we face our fears, we practice compassionate ways to melt their worries. This is vulnerable, valuable work; paid subscriptions allow us to go deeper.
As we connect to the Soul (you may prefer true self, higher self, or loving, wise sage within), we can draw upon the courage in our hearts to carry on, with strength and beauty.
Why join me?
Despite my Monkeys, I’m a multi-passionate creator and connector. My writing, illustration, design, songs, and performances have appeared in Time Magazine, feature films, and TV, newspapers, YA novels, on stages and festivals on the West Coast. therapy offices and bathrooms across the USA (“Holy Sh*t! 💩 52 Self-care Tools for People who Poo”). My background includes art and media faculty, facilitating brave circles for teens, coaching midlife women, and co-creating vision quests, conferences, and festivals. I’m honored to hold space with you — and to support your Mostly Brave voyage.
Our Mostly Brave community includes:
FREE subscribers receive a weekly post, including:
A true story: how to resolve a funky Monkey “Shit-u-ation.”
Access our 52-week library of playful 5-min. practices and creative prompts: to support your heart, mind, body, & soul.1
Inspirations for your Mostly Brave voice: a love song for our sponsor, Planet Earth, poems or illustrations from “Meet Your Monkeys,” my graphic novel.2
PAID Members (on sale through November) get support, tips, and challenges via chat (on the Substack App), and a Brave Creative ritual on Zoom:
Brave Moves. Share the latest thing that’s a little scary: a new project you’re dreaming up; revisions; promotion; or outreach
Monkey Bizness: Tips to manage anxiety, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or any other Monkey mind stuff that comes up.
Show and Share: offer your work-in-progress at any stage, and get feedback.
Even Braver: vulnerable posts featuring current projects. May include Singing for Water (Mantras for Mama Earth); a memoir on my near-death experiences; and “Meet Your Monkeys: Make Friends with the Brutes and Beasts that Rule Your Mind,” a graphic novel and film on the neuroscience of shame, trauma, and mindfulness.
Coming 2025: Mostly Brave co-working sessions. I run a weekday Zoom for story & script writers, for over two years. We get more done, together ~ with accountability & support.
Thank you for showing up, subscribing, and sharing this with other Mostly Brave souls. Mostly Brave is Brave Enough! More to come,
