The Creative Midwife Show

In this episode I’m sharing the experience of seeing the light at the end of the first draft tunnel and writing those last 20,000 words to reach The End.   It was a relief, an “oh my gosh, I’m almost there!” moment. I braced myself. I still had to keep doing exactly what I’d already done for almost two years and 130,000 words.   It got closer. And yet, I still had to show up and write 1000 words e...

Not the A to Z, linear process you’ve been taught. We still have a beginning, middle, and an end, but we also have a break after the end. That makes the four seasons of the creative process that we’re more familiar with as Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Our creative energy follows the same cycles and rhythm of the seasons. Learn how to recognise where you are in the creative process and how t...

Your writer’s block is simply pointing you in a different direction. Do you need to write into your book from a different place? Do you need to adjust or revise the structure so you feel grounded when you’re writing the detail? Do you need to express yourself in a way that wasn’t in your plan right now? Do you need to reflect and process the emotions that writing is bringing up for you? Learn how...

A 25-minute guided meditation with all of my favourite energetic alignments including calling our power back, expanding our power, clearing our space of negative energies, cord cutting with Archangel Michael, connecting to earth energy, and connecting to Source energy.  Meditation starts at 02:06  You can access a 15-minute version of this meditation within The Seasons Membership... https://buymea...

Let’s stop glorifying writer’s block the same way we’ve stopped glorifying being busy. There is a root cause of your writer’s block. You can identify it and move through it with relative ease and action. If you have multiple ideas vying for your attention, you’re afraid of running out of ideas, or you don’t know what form your ideas are supposed to take... this episode is for you!  Welcome to The...

A passing thought can become a sneaky expectation that creates emotional turmoil, friction, stress, and that feeling of being stuck. Let alone if you’ve intentionally created a fully-fledged plan and become consciously attached to those expectations, to things working out a certain way. I share how I’ve cleared these sneaky expectations to get back in flow in writing my book, creating this podcast...

Trusting that I would have time to write over the past two months of summer holidays with the family turned into just two frustrating writing sessions. Instead, I took an unintentional hiatus and the Universe taught me how to honour the tension and build the excitement for when I could get back to my creative work. How long we think our book will take to write is so often a made up, sneaky expecta...

Tash created and birthed her second book over two years amidst working a 9-5 job, moving house, and through 8 months of pregnancy. She shares the complete timeline of how the book unfolded, from embracing the idea back in 2023, writing most of it in transit on planes in 2024, and using deadlines to her advantage to bring the book through editing to publication in January 2025.    Welcome to The Cr...

Research is super fun, but it can become a distraction from the actual writing of the actual book that you’re doing the actual research for. That’s when it’s time to commit to the first draft knowing that there will be the opportunity for further research and filling in the gaps after you have a first draft to work with. Revision and editing are coming up and you can trust your future self to hand...

What happens when you finish a chapter at the beginning of your writing session and you still have 700 words to write? What if writing straight into the next chapter feels like a struggle? What does it look like to be referencing research material as part of a writing session? And I share an update on where I’ve put that 7000-word podcast transcript.    Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I’m yo...

I get distracted when I’m writing. I have to hide my phone from myself. I can check the word count multiple times as I progress from zero to 300 to 550 to 800 and finally to my 1000-word goal. And every writing session has an ebb and flow, a rise and fall that we can learn to navigate with confidence from the shifting of the seasons.     Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I’m your host, Kerryn...

I copied quotes from a reference book into my word count and it felt like cheating. I copied the 7000 word transcript from a podcast episode into my manuscript and it felt like cheating. Why was I valuing the “hard work” of writing new words above quotes that were far more likely to make it into the final draft? Why didn’t it count to add the transcript as first draft content and move on?    Welco...

Over the past six months of writing 40,000 words in my book I’ve taken several breaks away from writing, both expected and unexpected. I’ve been sick for three weeks, travelled to Europe for two weeks, and then had on-going sickness for two months. When I thought it was going to take me a year to write the first draft I freaked out because it felt so long. Now I expect it to take longer. And I don...

Amanda was voice messaging her bestie when she got an email inviting her to co-author a book with other women in business sharing their stories. Immediately she knew she had to do it even though she had no idea how she’d do it. The Universe already had her back because that bestie was me, writing coach & editor. She was already so supported she knew it’d all work out. Now she shares how it all...

I couldn’t admit to myself that I was writing a book until I’d written 10,000 words. Two pieces of guidance from Julia Cameron got me started writing with a first thought and 1,000 words at a time. When I reviewed those first 10,000 words, I could see the book that was emerging and the structure that was forming. Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I’m your host, Kerryn Trisha, creative midwife,...

Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I’m your host, Kerryn Trisha, creative midwife, organiser of ideas, writer, editor, and writing coach. On the show I take you behind the scenes of writing my book and bring you guests to share their experience writing, editing, and publishing their book babies. 

Join me and Rachel Hodgens as we dive deep into a conversation about how it feels and what it means for the astrological new year of Aries Season to coincide with the Autumn Equinox here in the Southern Hemisphere. We cover so much, including: Autumn/Harvest season energy Aries energy & how it's expressed during Autumn How you can identify these energies in your life & work with them to cr...

I recently went live on Instagram with Amanda Petra to talk about her new writing opportunity to co-author a book, how my word for the year (WRITE) is guiding me, and what we have to overcome as women to gain the confidence and courage to share our voices and our stories. Amanda is a systems expert, freedom creator, and mentor. A multi-passionate Projector in Human Design, she has multiple busines...

I have Viola Hug joining me to talk all about Human Design and parenting and birthing her Human Design Affirmations for Kids series. We talk about... How the idea for these books came into her life after the birth of her second child and deeply surrendering to the void. How they tackled designing and illustrating a kids book, which had previously felt like a sticking point. The gift of understandi...

Today I have Kelley Webb joining me on the podcast to share all about the creation and birthing process of her Own Your Light card deck and her book, Whispers from the Angels. Both creations took a couple years from first idea to being published in different ways and then making their way into the hands of lightworkers all around the world. Kelley is a Spiritual Mentor and incredibly powerful guid...

I recently got up at 6am (on a Sunday, during a weekend away with my husband for his birthday) to attend Rachel Symington’s Lazy Bitches Mini-Retreat only to discover that I’d missed the first hour due to daylight saving changes. In this episode I’m sharing… Why it was even an aligned decision to attend, given my life circumstances. How the daylight savings ‘mistake’ was a blessing in disguise. Th...

This week I’m bringing the beautiful Lara Gieseke , aka Lazz, on the podcast to talk about the birth of her book, Walnut Wednesday. We talk about… the seed of writing a book being planted in us as children and teenagers the monthly structure of a tarot forecast that inspired Lazz to start writing her book throwing out that 80% finished first draft to start again how important that first draft was...

What would it look like for you to be in a space sharing and dork grinning about your favourite things? Fully feeling into your excitement and obsession for what you’re passionate about. Whether that’s sexy paranormal romance, messages from your spirit guides, Carnival Row, or the incredible time of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Jesus Christ. When I asked myself this question – prompted by two del...

In this episode I’m sharing all about how I work as a book editor across non-fiction, fiction, and oracle card deck projects. If you’re curious about the editing process and the experience of working with an editor then you’re in the right place! I share about how I go through three editing passes of a book looking at everything from the overall book structure and chapter flow, to line editing and...

In this episode I’m sharing about the delicious and delightful experience available for anyone who has a big creative project calling their name and demanding their attention. That thing that feels really big, bigger than your body, but that your heart and soul is calling you to create. You don’t really know how it’s all going to happen but the idea of it won’t leave you alone. It’s growing and bl...