Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood - Hardcover

Ashlee Gadd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764240048 ISBN 13: 9780764240041

Publisher: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2023

Synopsis

Sharing hard-won lessons from years of creating in the margins of motherhood, Ashlee equips women to discover the sacred connection between creating and mothering--without feeling guilty or selfish. Through creative exercises, journaling prompts, and more, you'll be inspired to make space to pursue the creative dreams God has planted in your heart.

About this title

About the Author

Ashlee Gadd (www.ashleegadd.com) is the founder of Coffee + Crumbs, a creative online community that helps over 100,000 mothers feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved through the art of storytelling. As a writer and photographer, Ashlee has spent her entire motherhood creating in the margins. When she's not writing or vacuuming Cheerios out of the carpet, she loves making friends on the internet, eating cereal for dinner, and rearranging bookshelves. She and her husband have three kids and live in Sacramento, California.

From the Back Cover

Motherhood and creativity can coexist. 

You have creative dreams swirling in your heart, but pursuing them while changing diapers and managing the carpool schedule feels impossible. You have no time. No space. You can mother, or you can create. You certainly can't do both (right?!).

But what if you could pursue your God-given creative gifts alongside motherhood, for the enrichment of both experiences? What if you stopped viewing creativity as a selfish act, and started to see it as essential to your own flourishing as a mother? 

This book is a much-needed permission slip to do just that--through the pictures you take, the stories you write, the meals you make, the music you play, the gardens you grow.

In this unforgettable book filled with rich storytelling and stunning photographs, writer and mother Ashlee Gadd helps you set aside the guilt and discover the sacred connection between creating and mothering. One-part commissioning, one-part pep talk, Create Anyway will propel you forward with a renewed sense of energy, purpose, and enthusiasm for stewarding the creative dreams God has planted in your heart--right alongside the diapers and carpool.

Here's to creating in the margins of motherhood.

Here's to creating anyway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764240048
• ISBN 13: 9780764240041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256