# Create Me Free Exploring how health and circumstance impact creativity and all of the resilience and adaptations people can and do make in order to keep on creating in the best way possible! Page: Feed: --- ## [Gordon Parks: Multiple Income Streams as Survival Strategy](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/gordon-parks-multiple-income-streams) _2026-08-25 · Kathryn Vercillo_ How the first Black staff photographer at Life magazine built a multi-stream creative career, what each stream was for, and what his practice reveals about pricing, sustainability, and the hidden cost ## [Episode 14: How The Body May Write Itself Into Creative Work](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/episode-14-how-the-body-may-write) _2026-08-21 · Kathryn Vercillo_ Five ways a body works its way into the work, whether the maker meant to let it or not. ## [What the Sensory Experience of Making Does to the Nervous System: The Research and What It Means](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/art-materials-nervous-system-research-creative-practice) _2026-08-18 · Kathryn Vercillo_ The art materials and nervous system relationship is documented, distinct, and almost entirely absent from mainstream discussions of creative practice. ## [Episode 13: How Health Impacts Content ... and what do we really mean by creative content?](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/episode-13-how-health-impacts-content) _2026-08-14 · Kathryn Vercillo_ I’ve decided to try audio-only for the Create Me Free podcast. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210670735/da678e8e4a80aa32836fdd12b4fc1617.mp3) ## [Creatives How To Guide: Pricing Your Art for Capacity, Rather Than Comparison](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/creatives-how-to-guide-pricing-your) _2026-08-11 · Kathryn Vercillo_ How to set your rates when you have fewer hours than your peers, why the standard advice makes it worse, and the five-step calculation that actually reflects your work. ## [Dear Artist Who Reaches for a Particular Material When the World Is Too Much](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/artist-sensory-creative-regulation-material) _2026-08-04 · Kathryn Vercillo_ The material you reach for is doing physiological work your body already understands. Sensory creative regulation is already happening in your practice. ## [July '26: Creating with the body you have, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Stitching Your Daily Life and More](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/july-26-creating-with-the-body-you) _2026-08-03 · Kathryn Vercillo_ If my writing has ever touched or inspired you, consider support it in whatever way you can. ## [Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Building a Practice Around a Body You Know Is Running Out of Time](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/felix-gonzalez-torres-building-a) _2026-07-28 · Kathryn Vercillo_ The content is specific and personal. The form refuses to announce it. The disguise is also the art. ## [Episode 12: What Your Hands Already Know; Creative Medium as an Embodied Form of Thinking](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/episode-12-what-your-hands-already) _2026-07-24 · Kathryn Vercillo_ When health forces a change in your creative medium, it can feel like failure. Two books reframe it, and your hands still hold what they learned. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208111414/54498f2508d5da1c9b4032c6ca3b7d09.mp3) ## [Adaptation as Creative Intelligence: What Artists Learn When Constraint Forces a New Direction](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/creative-adaptation-health-constraint-intelligence) _2026-07-21 · Kathryn Vercillo_ Creative adaptation and health are more connected than most discussions of constraint acknowledge. What forced medium change produces that chosen change cannot. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MQPpovzQ5FUH) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Maya’s Creative Health Map: Sample Preview of Creative Health Cartography Services](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/mayas-creative-health-map-sample) _2026-07-15 · Kathryn Vercillo_ I offer a unique Creative Health Mapping service that unfolds over five conversations to assist you in understanding the ways in which health and circumstance impact your creativity and, more importantly, how you want to navigate that terrain to live the creative life you most want. ## [How to Work With What You Have Today: A Guide to Creative Capacity Mapping](https://createmefree.substack.com/p/how-to-work-with-what-you-have-today) _2026-07-14 · Kathryn Vercillo_ Four Kinds of Creative Capacity ... and How to Plan Your Week Around Them for a Productivity System that Works With Your Actual Health