Your Spacious Life The Elemental Story Insight Through Art
 

CONNECT WITH YOUR WISEst SELF AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL STORY

ARTFULLY · ELEMENTALLY · CONSCIOUSLY

 
 
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Sometimes the extraordinary life you imagine is right there, visible on the horizon.

But out-of-control stress makes it disappear.

You find yourself paralyzed by perfectionism, overcome by overwhelm, or following all the rules except your own. In the effort to carry on, you hide, minimize, or compartmentalize what you’re feeling. Or bury yourself in busy work. Even if you’re known as a problem solver. Even if you’re strong, capable, and doing good work in the world.

This out-of-control stress causes you to lose sight of your dreams, or keeps you grasping for and missing them. You feel a sense of panic and bury it to carry on, overwhelming your nervous system. You wonder how, in this state, you will ever get where you want to go.

I know. I’ve been there. While I’ve had a wildly adventure-filled life, and a long career doing what I love as a coach, writer, editor, and teacher, the stress I’ve carried in my body used to regularly stop me in my tracks—and threatened to derail me on my way to my biggest dreams.

Today, I know it’s possible to recover. to keep returning to calm and confidence. To find beauty after devastation. To build your oasis.

Learning to trust life—and yourself—again, allows you to reclaim your dreams and feel the way you want to while living your life.

When exploring new territory, it’s good to travel with someone who’s been there. To have a companion as you go deep, face fears, recalibrate, dream big, design a life that nourishes you, and craft your next chapter.

I’m glad you’re here.

My name is Karen Olson. In addition to my work as editor of American Craft magazine, I have a boutique coaching business grounded in art, writing, nature, and neuroscience.

 
 
 

Ways to work with karen

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Your Spacious Life

Neuroscience-based coaching for those who want to feel more calm, confident, and courageous
Because you know that when you’re grounded and nourished, and when you have your vision set on the direction you want to go, your work and leadership is more powerful. Your daily life is more meaningful. And you are more connected to magic. Together we’ll calm your system and call forth your deep wisdom, innate creativity, and unique brilliance so you can design a life you love.

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The Elemental Story

Coaching for writers
Being a writer—a thoughtful, honest one—requires bravery, curiosity, and discernment. When writers are exploring new territory, it’s essential for them to be able to identify what’s too much, what’s too little, and what’s just right. I help writers expand their energetic intelligence through classes and one-on-one work. In the process, they unearth powerful stories and create their own maps so they no longer feel lost in the woods.

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MUSEUM SAGE

An experience for seekers
As a trained guide for Museum Sage, I offer people who have questions about their lives a unique way to open up new and deeper ways of thinking. Using art in museums, I help clients deepen access their own insight and intuition, discern what’s most important, and find actionable ways forward. Currently offered virtually to individuals or small groups, this work is also available to larger groups through MuseumSage.org. Meaningful and fun, it opens hearts and minds.

 

Join me on Instagram @elementalkaren for my thoughts on art, life, courage, and more.

Since accidentally setting a wildfire and being in a flood, a tornado, an explosion in a cave, and lost at sea; I’ve been exploring on an elemental level what depletes us, what energizes us, and how systems stay healthy and in balance. . I bega
Create your elemental toolbox by brainstorming ways you can generate energy in each element. . Air is the realm of thinking and inspiration. . To better connect with this element, you might consider reading an article, taking a walk, or doing some br
It is my privilege to work with people who are committed to growth. . Who are not only designing better lives for themselves, but are contributing to a healthier, more beautiful, and more peaceful planet. . As they work towards creating their own sto
Sometimes all it takes to be more courageous…is more sleep. . Sleep is one of the five keys to neuroplasticity, the ability of our brains to be adaptable, learn, and transform. The more we increase our neuroplasticity, the less stuck we feel,
Fire is the element heat and light and the realm of vision and meaning. . It connects us to vision and passion. . Too much fire and we get burned. Too little, we feel cold. . When balanced we feel connected, illuminated, and filled with warmth. . . .
Are you a mission-driven creative or thought leader who is ready to experience a powerful presence and establish a deep connection to what’s meaningful? . What if you were able to live, create, relate, and work with more ease? . Elemental Empow
If you feel like you’re endlessly spinning and getting nowhere, you might need to balance your air element. . When balanced, we feel inspired, uplifted, and better able to imagine new possibilities and creative ideas. . When we have too much ai
Water hydrates and cleanses us. When in balance we are at our best—emotionally and creatively. . When out of balance we can either feel like we’re flooded with too much emotion and ideas, or we feel dry, parched, and somehow lacking. . Is

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Experience Life

Utne Reader

Minnesota Monthly

The Line

Self

Public Art Review

Mother Earth Living

Gardening How-To

Permaculture Magazine

A Room of One’s Own

Cimarron Review

 
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