Art Creativity & Wellbeing

If you’d like to feel some hope and know that you are among people who, like ourselves, are searching for solutions that support everyone, this is your conversation.Ashland, Massachusetts Chief of Police Cara Rossi spent a wonderful hour talking with me today, and I'm so excited to bring you our conversation.Shared with lots of gratitude to Cara – and to you for listening and for sharing your questions. (We had lots of great questions! Thank you so much.)Nuts & BoltsQuestions and Thoughts: If you've got further questions or thoughts for Chief Rossi, please direct them to me at my contact page and I will pass them along: https://kaylockkolp.com/contactRebels for Peace: Cara and I briefly talk about the wonderful youth led nonprofit supporting South Side Chicago, Rebels for Peace. See more about them and what they do at their lovely website, which I honestly sometimes visit just to feel their amazing vibe, https://www.rebelsforpeace.org/My Brain & Me Workshop: I am co-facilitating a workshop along with wonderful coach and very dear colleague Sarah-Jayne Juniper, coming up at the end of February. It’s about making peace with our internal operating system. This feels important now, more than ever. Click here to read more about it.ACWB in YouTube: View the Art Creativity & Wellbeing show in YouTube here.Thank you for being here. Sending you much love – KayArt Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

This one's a little messy. Not a surprise, given how messy January has been.I wanted to bring it to you even though it's messy, because it's real too. It's about real things that really matter. You're here, reading and listening, so I think they’ll matter to you as well.Thank you for being here with me. I'm glad to be here with you.Love, KayNuts & BoltsGot a question for this coming Tuesday's guest, Chief of Police Cara Rossi? Chief Rossi is my friend and does a great job in her suburban Massachusetts Police Department of, as she puts it, "leading with love.”Ask Chief Rossi a question by clicking over to my contact page, by 9 AM Tuesday morning, February 3. Here's the link – https://kaylockkolp.com/contact. If this arrived in your inbox feel free to simply hit reply to ask your question.Read more about Chief Rossi by clicking here.Read about – and play along at – the Days of Creation 2026 game (that this episode is about) by clicking here.My Brain & Me Workshop: I am co-facilitating a workshop along with wonderful coach and very dear colleague Sarah-Jayne Juniper, coming up at the end of February. It's about making peace with our internal operating system. This feels important now, more than ever. Click here to read more about it.View the Art Creativity & Wellbeing show in YouTube here.Art Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

Today’s show brings in an important idea when cultivating a positive money mindset: being curious about what we are really good at and enjoy doing.How we feel about money will improve as we do more and more of that which we are really good at and enjoy doing.Hope you enjoy this one!I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true: the most important person who will hear your responses to the questions being asked in this series, is you.So open up the notes app on your phone or find yourself a journal, grab a cup of tea and your favorite blanket, and let’s hop in!Here’s the Days of Creation 2026 Game Book and guidelines for playing – next week I’ll share how January has shown up as related to what I wrote about the whole month, back on January 1.The following week stay tuned for the conclusion to this series on Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset. Woo hoo!Write to me at this link with questions and commentsAnd/orSubscribe to the newsletter form of this podcast so that future episodes land right in your inboxThank you for being here! It means a lot, as do you.Love, KayArt Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

How we spend our time, and how aligned our days are spent with how we wish to spend them, is directly influenced by the kind of money mindset we have.Today I’ve got a couple questions to help you get a sense of this alignment for yourself.I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true: the key person who will hear you, is you.So open up the notes app on your phone or find yourself a journal, grab a cup of tea and your favorite blanket, and let’s hop in!Write to me at this link with questions and commentsAnd/orSubscribe to the newsletter form of this podcast so that future episodes land right in your inboxThank you for being here! It means a lot, as do you.Love, KayArt Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

I HAD NO IDEA how negative my money mindset used to be. Lack was the word that best describes it.Over several years I’ve opened more and more to feeling abundance.Even with all that growth, 2025 blew the absolute doors off of any abundance mindset I’d ever had.Between the dream home and property my life partner and I now live on, and the up-leveling of service that I have been able to provide with my better money mindset, both as a coach and also creatively, I simply have one thing to say:If I can do it… You can too.I’m taking you into how, with a multipart series on cultivating a positive money mindset.Today we start with two important questions. I’d love to hear your responses to each of them, and your questions about cultivating this mindset too.But the key person who will hear you, is you.So open up the notes app on your phone or find yourself a journal, grab a cup of tea and your favorite blanket, and let’s hop in!Write to me at this link with questions and commentsAnd/orSubscribe to the newsletter form of this podcast so that future episodes land right in your inboxThank you for being here! It means a lot, as do you.Love, Kay This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

Happy new year! For this episode I share three questions that have been super helpful for me in envisioning a wonderful 2026. I share my responses to them… With such curiosity about you. I wonder how you would answer these questions?Here are the questions:1. A Magical Three from this year’s Year Compass:“I will have the power to say no to these three things.”… What are your three things?2. & 3. These next two come from my conversations with my AI thinking partner:“What does 2026 wish for you to remember about your own aliveness – especially in the quieter, slower, or less certain moments?”“What felt newly possible for you in 2026 – something that once lived only in your imagination, but that this year brought into form, presence, or even just tangible steps forward?”I hope they help you create a really wonderful coming year!Come Play a Game with MeToday I share about Days of Creation 2026, a way to "proactively build your coming year.” Click here for the post where you can download your complimentary copy of the Game Book and then we can play together!Come Be in Good CompanyLast year I founded Dreamers & Doers, a group that has grown into a really wonderful and quite magical place. If wonder, magic, and being in good company sound like your cup of tea, click here to read more about it.As always, thank you so much for being here with me. It means a lot that you are on the journey.See you next week!Love, KayArt Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber by going to https://kaylockkolp.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

Well, here we are at the end of a fascinating and pretty buckwild year! I have got a quickie self-care practice for you today, and a game that we can play together all throughout 2026. (The link below is where you can play.)Happy 2026, dear friend. I hope it's an awesome year for you. You deserve it. And you rock!Love,Kay This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

On 23 December 2022 I sustained a head injury that took me many many months to recover from. I spent half the following year in physical therapy supporting my eyes to work properly again. The head injury permanently changed how I engage with print and reading.It had one other, very beneficial, effect: at the hospital I was told “You need lots of rest. If you want to get truly better from this you must take it easy.”It was two days before Christmas. How in heck was I going to “take it easy” two days before Christmas?For the first time in a very long time, I did. The ease that that brought into my life made it one of the most pleasant Christmases in years.Ease. That’s what we’re talking about today.I share a quickie self-care practice that can help us remember that there’s such a thing in the world as ease, and that maybe we can allow some of that into our experience.I also bring a question for you:What does it take for you to allow ease into your life?I would love to hear. You can share in the comments for this post, hit reply to write directly to me if this landed in your inbox, or share via my website contact page, https://www.kaylockkolp.com/contact/. Thanks for being along on this journey with me.Sending you love today <3KayInvitations for You* Earlier this year I founded a group, Dreamers & Doers. It’s a place to grow, be in good company, and have some fun! If that’s a space you might appreciate, visit skool.com/dreamersanddoers. * Subscribe to this newsletter so that these posts land right in your inbox, and to receive chapters of my new book, Hug Yourself, right into your inbox too, as they are being written, by going to kaylockkolp.substack.com.Art Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us… To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves.This week we bring our focus to feeling okay even amidst those who do not. Hope it's helpful.Sending you love today <3KayNew Book Cover and New Book Name!I am excited to share the first of a couple covers I am having designed to bring Hug Yourself into reality.Click here to take a look!Thank you for being along this journey with me. It means a lot. <3Invitations for You* Earlier this year I founded a group, Dreamers & Doers. It’s a place to grow, be in good company, and have some fun! If that’s a space you might appreciate, visit skool.com/dreamersanddoers. Price goes up on 1 January, 2026.* Subscribe to this newsletter and receive chapters of my new book, Hug Yourself, right into your inbox as they are being written by going to kaylockkolp.substack.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe

This game came in really handy when my eardrum ruptured over Thanksgiving week! It was great to have a little reminder that even on the worst days, there's still good around when we look for it. THANK YOU to my dear friend and colleague Dr. Alice Ackerman for the game.Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us… To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves.Sending you love today <3KayInvitations for You* Add to your art collection… or enhance somebody else’s… Visit kaylockkolp.com/art. I'm adding new pieces in frequently, what fun!* Earlier this year I founded a group, Dreamers & Doers. It's a place to grow, be in good company, and have some fun! If that’s a space you might appreciate, visit skool.com/dreamersanddoers. Price goes up on 1 January, 2026.* Subscribe to this newsletter and receive chapters of my new book, Hug Yourself, right into your inbox as they are being written by going to kaylockkolp.substack.com.Art Creativity & Wellbeing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe