I work with creatives struggling to be authentic in their art.
Maybe your inner critic is loud, telling you your art is too outside the box, it should look like everyone else’s. Or that your art isn’t good enough because you don’t have a degree or a publisher or an agent like this friend or that “successful” person.
Or you are a perfectionist (like me) and your insides demand that you don’t put anything out there until it’s absolutely perfect.
You might be a diasporic artist. Whether you have the east-west tug inside you or some other combination thereof, you might feel like your art isn’t quite for the white folks you’re surrounded by but nor is it brown enough for brown folks.
You might be in deeply colonized spaces and your insides are ready to decolonize your art (and your self). This includes breaking free from capitalism and patriarchy (or learning to work within them more skillfully).
how this impacts your creativity:
You find yourself manipulating your shape or making art that’s a diluted version of your truth so others will be comfortable or understand or publish or represent you.
But in creating for others’ approval, you’re not true to you, and your art isn’t quite right.
It doesn’t land for your audience and it doesn’t land for you. Which keeps you stuck in this perpetual cycle of inauthenticity.
what I help you do
I help you work with your inner critic.
I help you get clear on what your values are and who your aligned audience is. So you can create for the right people.
I help you examine, move through and change your relationship to your internalized colonization, capitalism and patriarchy.
how you’re changed as a result
You know your art is your purpose. Your art is your truth. It is unshakable.
Your art comes from your integrity- that alignment of your body, mind and spirit- and it lands exactly right for the exact right audience.
Your art is liberation. For you. For the collective.
testimonials
I first encountered Phi through her incredible gift as a story-teller many years ago. Since then it’s been personally very empowering to witness her soul-journey and how receptive, sensitized, and generous she is as a Being, but also as a "coach," which doesn't quite do justice to her impact. The few sessions we’ve had have left me awe-struck at how much breakthrough of stagnation and paralysis can happen with such loving and intelligent guidance as hers. Phi’s work is deep; it is extraordinary to find someone so attuned with cycles of the psyche, Being With the Body, and beyond. As a fellow brown, queer artist, it’s especially significant to have support like hers, where certain things go without explanation or translation at all. It can be life-saving. I’ve found immense liberation and freedom through my work with Phi, and hope to keep this as a life-long connection.
