Christine Poole

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

personal growth

  • 🌫 The Finishing Fog

    There is a particular kind of fog that arrives at the end of creative work. I have started to call it the finishing fog. It is not the fog of not knowing what to do. It is not writer’s block. In fact, quite often, I know exactly what needs to happen. I just don’t want… Read more

  • 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

  • 🌳 Everything is practice

    I’ve been thinking about my writing practice recently. Every Monday evening, I meet with my writing buddy. We set goals, encourage each other and, most importantly, keep writing. Recently, one of my writing goals came to a natural end. As I thought about what might come next, I found myself asking a different question. What… Read more

  • 🌱 The Things We Bring to Life

    Reflections on Motherhood and Writing Today is my son’s 9th birthday, and it feels like a fitting day to reflect. There’s something incredible about watching a child grow—knowing that someone so full of personality, curiosity, and possibility began as something so small. A seed, in a way, needing time, care, patience, and love. A few… Read more