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Creatrix: She Who Makes
Creatrix is more than just a fancy name for a female artist. She is artist plus…artist plus priestess, artist plus healer, artist plus activist: her work has both sacred and worldly dimensions. She is an energy worker first and foremost, weaving energy into form, colour, words and sound, in order to transform herself and those her creations touch.
What does it mean to live a life in service to your creativity, and in direct connection to the creative source?
In this, her ninth book, Lucy H. Pearce, award-winning author of Burning Woman, Medicine Woman and The Rainbow Way shares…
Powerful practical insight into all parts of The Creative Way.
The unique challenges for women artists and writers.
How to align with your authentic voice and The Work that calls you.
Techniques for harnessing your powerful creative energy and dealing with fear, anxiety, creative blocks.
How to earn your living creatively: building a social media platform, working sustainably, creating multiple income streams, networking when socially anxious…
How our creativity can be our most potent transformational medicine.
With Creative Inquiries and Practices, this interactive book is written for all those that must create in order to live: for the Highly Creative, the Highly Sensitive, the multi-passionate, for those that shake when they share…
Soulful, serious-minded, irreverent and authentic, let Creatrix take you on a journey to the heart of your creative soul.
What does it mean to live a life in service to your creativity, and in direct connection to the creative source?
In this, her ninth book, Lucy H. Pearce, award-winning author of Burning Woman, Medicine Woman and The Rainbow Way shares…
Powerful practical insight into all parts of The Creative Way.
The unique challenges for women artists and writers.
How to align with your authentic voice and The Work that calls you.
Techniques for harnessing your powerful creative energy and dealing with fear, anxiety, creative blocks.
How to earn your living creatively: building a social media platform, working sustainably, creating multiple income streams, networking when socially anxious…
How our creativity can be our most potent transformational medicine.
With Creative Inquiries and Practices, this interactive book is written for all those that must create in order to live: for the Highly Creative, the Highly Sensitive, the multi-passionate, for those that shake when they share…
Soulful, serious-minded, irreverent and authentic, let Creatrix take you on a journey to the heart of your creative soul.
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366 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2019
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About the author
Lucy H. Pearce
19 books257 followersLucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix.
Her newest books are Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods and The Kitchen Witch Companion, which she illustrated and co-authored with Sarah Robinson.
Her writing weaves women’s archetypal psychology, feminist historical awareness and the healing power of creativity and nature.
An award-winning graduate in History of Ideas with English Literature from Kingston University, and a PGCE from Cambridge University,
http://www.lucyhpearce.com/
Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, creating paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014. http://www.womancraftpublishing.com/
She is the host of the Creative Magic podcast, where she interviews contemporary creative women. https://open.spotify.com/show/5tipcBA...
Support her work on Patreon http:/www.Patreon.com/lucyhpearce/
Burning Woman - an incendiary initiation to feminine power is her most recent and is blazing trails with its powerful words, a #1 Amazon bestseller in Women and History.
The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood was a #1 Amazon bestseller in Creativity and motherhood in the US and UK. it has been credited with kickstarting the creativity of women - and men - around the world, being the inspiration behind numerous creative businesses and even saving lives.
Moon Time - a book that hundreds of women around the world have labelled “life-changing”. The perennial #1 Amazon.com bestseller in its field.
Reaching for the Moon, a soulful guide to the menstrual cycle for girls aged 9-14, trusted and recommended by thousands of parents and their daughters as a nurturing way to approach a key rite of passage.
Her newest books are Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods and The Kitchen Witch Companion, which she illustrated and co-authored with Sarah Robinson.
Her writing weaves women’s archetypal psychology, feminist historical awareness and the healing power of creativity and nature.
An award-winning graduate in History of Ideas with English Literature from Kingston University, and a PGCE from Cambridge University,
http://www.lucyhpearce.com/
Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, creating paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014. http://www.womancraftpublishing.com/
She is the host of the Creative Magic podcast, where she interviews contemporary creative women. https://open.spotify.com/show/5tipcBA...
Support her work on Patreon http:/www.Patreon.com/lucyhpearce/
Burning Woman - an incendiary initiation to feminine power is her most recent and is blazing trails with its powerful words, a #1 Amazon bestseller in Women and History.
The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood was a #1 Amazon bestseller in Creativity and motherhood in the US and UK. it has been credited with kickstarting the creativity of women - and men - around the world, being the inspiration behind numerous creative businesses and even saving lives.
Moon Time - a book that hundreds of women around the world have labelled “life-changing”. The perennial #1 Amazon.com bestseller in its field.
Reaching for the Moon, a soulful guide to the menstrual cycle for girls aged 9-14, trusted and recommended by thousands of parents and their daughters as a nurturing way to approach a key rite of passage.
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May 11, 2020
Highly recommend! I finished reading Creatrix this morning and was once more touched by Lucy’s beautiful, inspiring, and sometimes uncanny ability to reach through the page directly into the very heart of things—sometimes things unvoiced, unspoken, unconscious, invisible, and then there they are...right in front of me suddenly, on the page, woven into form by this remarkably gifted woman. 🌀
“Our creations make doorways in the dark for others to slip out of the status quo and into the magic of greater possibility.”
—Lucy H. Pearce, Creatrix
“Our creations make doorways in the dark for others to slip out of the status quo and into the magic of greater possibility.”
—Lucy H. Pearce, Creatrix
January 2, 2020
What a delicious way to start the new decade. Creatrix is a loving and supportive guide to all the ways we can flow with our creativity. I feel like an old friend is listening to me and urging me to make art, make stories, and gardens and scarves and........ I highly recommend this book!
January 14, 2022
Did not finish. This book had a very specific target audience and that target audience was definitely not me.
June 8, 2020
A great book thinking about how and why we create as women, the external and internal factors and systems that can impede that and how we can observe and overcome those. I've shared various portions with clients in therapy sessions, including such diverse things as neural pathway development, coping with the trolls/critics, making our art despite our self critical voices telling us we are rubbish and the intersections of our art and our living.
Recommended for any level of creator, not at all just for those who are making a living from their art.
Recommended for any level of creator, not at all just for those who are making a living from their art.
July 16, 2022
So much to take in
Just finished this book for the second time and I'm sure it won't be the last. Lucy H Pearce truly gets what it is to be creative in a very strange world.
Just finished this book for the second time and I'm sure it won't be the last. Lucy H Pearce truly gets what it is to be creative in a very strange world.
August 26, 2023
Excellent! Inspired & inspiring. Powerful. Just what my creative soul craved. Thank you!
March 30, 2024
A must-read for every person who is a creative, an artist. Healing, inspiring, cathartic.
March 28, 2023
Oh how I love this book, finally someone understands the sacred pursuit of creativity and speaks in my language of passion, poetry and dream. I was so tired of the usual creativity books that don’t speak on the creative force as it moves through the universe. I especially loved the passages in romantic italic that speak of womens personal experiences with the creative, and their creativity, wisdom and subjectivity at last! This author understands! That we need to fight the constant ‘dry logical objectivity only’ assault on our society. This stranglehold of the masculine. My god I am grateful to this author for writing this book, for putting so much of her subjective personal wisdom into it. I was in a painting slump and after reading all the entries and stunning quotes I loved, I was desperate and excited to paint again. I was revived and restored in every way every time I picked it up and read, and remembered how important it is that we create. The Creatrix speaks with passages on being a dreamer to sections on drawing from source, and chapters on chaos and flow. If you are a deep, spirited, passionate, emotional, mystical type which many creatives are you will be renewed by this book. I just open it up at random sections and take it in. Highly recommended.
September 26, 2024
What a blessing this book is to the creative soul. I feel renewed in my, previously deeply stagnant, creativity from reading it. My spark is once more lit!
I have to admit that I found 'Creatrix' quite difficult to click into at the beginning. If that is the case for you then do persevere. It's definitely worth it.
As a neurodiverse being I particularly love the way in which Lucy H. Pearce weaves absolutely EVERYTHING into her call to wild creativity; practical tips and advice, personal experience from both the author and diverse other Creatrix voices, politics, philosophy, social justice, spirituality, questions to the reader, and useful creative exercises. All stones are turned and many wonders are found beneath. I loved it!
This book would be helpful for any woman who wants to ignite, reignite, or support her creative soul and navigate our complex world as a creative being. And, I feel, for anyone of any gender who wants to draw out a more feminine-centred creativity. And who wouldn't want to do that!?
Marvellous!
I have to admit that I found 'Creatrix' quite difficult to click into at the beginning. If that is the case for you then do persevere. It's definitely worth it.
As a neurodiverse being I particularly love the way in which Lucy H. Pearce weaves absolutely EVERYTHING into her call to wild creativity; practical tips and advice, personal experience from both the author and diverse other Creatrix voices, politics, philosophy, social justice, spirituality, questions to the reader, and useful creative exercises. All stones are turned and many wonders are found beneath. I loved it!
This book would be helpful for any woman who wants to ignite, reignite, or support her creative soul and navigate our complex world as a creative being. And, I feel, for anyone of any gender who wants to draw out a more feminine-centred creativity. And who wouldn't want to do that!?
Marvellous!
November 22, 2020
To sit down with “Creatrix: She Who Makes“ by Lucy H. Pearce, is to enter into the center of a circle of wise women knowing that you are in the presence of sacredness.
Each voice shared sings of the struggles, the doubt, the mountains climbed, the victories, and the joys of living a creative life. It is honest, compassionate and most of all encouraging. One cannot fail to connect to the wisdom that flows beneath the surface of her words. It is a book to go to when you feel discouraged and need to be reminded of why you have this need to create; it is a book to go to when you need to play (you are encouraged to add art to its pages) and it is a book to go to to feel empowered. This book opens doors...to your own creativity, to community, to new possibilities. Blessings
Each voice shared sings of the struggles, the doubt, the mountains climbed, the victories, and the joys of living a creative life. It is honest, compassionate and most of all encouraging. One cannot fail to connect to the wisdom that flows beneath the surface of her words. It is a book to go to when you feel discouraged and need to be reminded of why you have this need to create; it is a book to go to when you need to play (you are encouraged to add art to its pages) and it is a book to go to to feel empowered. This book opens doors...to your own creativity, to community, to new possibilities. Blessings
August 20, 2025
Lucy Pearce invites you into her world of embracing creativity and raising our awareness of what can be a barrier to living a creative life. There are lots of treasures of her thoughts, artists experiences and sidebar quotes from others. Chapters often had interesting prompts for journaling. Sometimes I couldn’t follow her train of thought and felt she left me behind.
June 24, 2024
I've read this so many times in so many places.
October 15, 2025
As a single woman without kids.... I clearly wasn't the target audience. I definitely didn't feel like it was aimed at all women, and I wish I'd realised that before buying it
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