You’re not cooked, you might just be in Creative Hibernation in a Heat Wave

Creative Hibernation in a Heat Wave

We’re in a heat wave right now—

the kind where the air feels like an oven and everything feels a little overcooked.

I totally feel cooked.

There are things I could be doing, things I should be doing… but I’m not.

I’m letting myself just sit and be.

Creative hibernation is built into me.

It’s part of my rhythm.

I go through cycles of high output, followed by quiet stretches or lower output—and that’s just how I work.

It rises, it falls, and then it rises again.

It ebbs and it flows, just like the ocean.

My waves of creativity have high tides and low tides.

Let it all go like my very wise cat

I don’t criticize myself for needing the quiet.

No spiraling. No self-loathing.

Just gentle awareness: a knowing that

this slow down is part of the process.

So if you’re here with me

in the stillness,

in the hush,

in the chaos of the world around us—spinning, spinning—

you, silent.

Spinning.

You, still.

Stuck in one place, unable to move or create…

I hope you’re being kind to yourself too.

As creative people, we sometimes have to: Pause.

To absorb.

To reflect.

To let new connections form from the noise.

To let new ideas float up from the silence.

Stillness is a garden.

The calm is lush and fertile.

Even when it looks like nothing’s happening,

everything is.