Christine Poole

Scientist. Writer. Facilitator. Artist. Curious about what helps us grow.

creativity

  • My First Poem 🌻

    🌻My First Poem Read more

  • ✨ Remembering

    Perhaps the deeper work isn’t becoming who we think we should be. Perhaps it’s remembering who we were before we learned we had to be someone else. For a long time, I thought I was searching for my values. I filled journals, read books, listened to podcasts, and completed more values exercises than I can… Read more

  • 🦋  The Courage to Finish

    For a long time, I thought my challenge was starting. I had ideas. Lots of them. Projects, notes, drafts, possibilities. My mind was constantly connecting things, noticing patterns, imagining what something could become. But recently I discovered something more uncomfortable. My challenge was not starting – my challenge was finishing. Because there is a strange… Read more

  • 🌙 The Work That Happens After the Work

    After writing about my Creative Operating System (COS) on Monday, I found myself thinking about something I had overlooked. We often focus on the work of creating — but what happens after the work is finished? I used to think finishing a project meant asking one question: What’s next? As soon as something was complete,… Read more

  • 🧩 From Post-it Board to Creative Operating System (COS)

    For years I’ve been trying to find a planning system that actually works for the way my brain creates. I’ve tried notebooks, digital apps, and endless to-do lists. They all helped for a while, but eventually they became places where tasks accumulated rather than places that inspired action. A few weeks ago I pinned a… Read more