It’s never too late to be the creative person you want to be.
I’m Faye—an Asheville-based writer on a journey to learn how to care for our creativity.
Library of Care is a place to reclaim your creative joy through self-care, community, and personal story.
Creative Empowerment Library
Creativity Coaching & Facilitation
Editorial Services for Artists
I work with:
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Coaching & Coworking Sessions for creatively inspired people in need of grounding and nurturing support as they emerge or re-emerge into their most badass creative selves.
Creative Care—Together we’ll explore your current relationship with creativity—do you have one, what do you want in one, what do you need to change in the current one—and what kinds of nourishment and resources creativity needs from you to grow stronger, more resilient, and more joyful. Throughout our sessions, I’ll guide you through this discovery phase and help you transition what works for you into the rhythm of your creative practice.
Author Care—Receive support in designing a book launch that connects you with readers, works for your nervous system, and brings you more joy. Together, we’ll map out the tools you need to professionally promote yourself (like a media kit), and draft a lead list of bookstores, libraries, and other community places where you can meaningfully pitch your book, plus envision events, services, or products that allow you to have more fun promoting your book (and possibly earn more money!) while being more visible in the communities you most want to reach.
Do-A-Thing Creative Coworking Sessions—At each session, we will stay gentle, focused, and connected, beginning with a short grounding session, followed by intention setting, and timed coworking that encourages breaks, hydration, and movement, along with questions or support as needed. The goal is to help you do a thing!—whatever it is you need or want to serve your creative relationship—while building trust with yourself as you practice structure and joyful rituals that you can carry with you into your daily work/life rhythm.
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Workshops and events for sparking more creative joy, connection, and well-being are offered both online and in person (Asheville, North Carolina and beyond).
I work with groups to design workshops that speak to your unique needs and goals, including book clubs, community organizations, and collaborations.
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Approachable and engaging creative burnout education + connection practice workshops for talks, conferences, trainings, retreats, and leadership coaching.
I am also available for nonprofit and corporate consulting to help your workplace culture transform its relationship with creativity ushering in an increase in employee well-being and greater openness to change.
Our lives may have been built for burnout, but
we were born to create.
About
J. Faye D’Avanza
J. Faye D’Avanza is an artist, writer, editor, holistic librarian, yogi, and creative guide who nurtures creative joy—at work, at home, in the community, and everywhere in-between.
She finds purpose in offering stories and tools to help you reignite, keep, and share your creative joy with others in her indie newsletter KEEPING CREATIVE TIME, and through her work as the founder and creative guide of Library of Care, a resilient, resourceful, a re-imagined space to help people and organizations transform the way they care about creativity, move beyond burnout, and reconnect with what they love.
A former public librarian turned creative educator, she is known for helping people recover and heal from creative burnout by tapping into what brings them joy through her unique blend of group facilitation, individual advising, and content creation for a growing audience of emerging and [re]emerging artists, authors, creatives, and entrepreneurs.
Her approach is rooted in bottom-up connection to creativity (body to mind) and an exploration in the interdependence that can be found when self-care is balanced with community care.
With over 20 years experience working in public libraries, managing communications and events for a woman-owned bookstore, and coaching artists and creative-based businesses through recovery after Hurricane Helene with the nonprofit Mountain BizWorks, Faye is skilled in curating and making accessible community resources, facilitating a holistic approach to the creative process, and engaging others in growing, learning, and connecting through story.
A cultural information professional, Inward & Artward certified creative facilitator, University of Chicago certified book editor, and West Asheville Yoga (RYT-200) yoga teacher-in-training, she lives among the artists, tourists, trees, and mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and can often be found drinking a matcha latte and writing in the margins of her books.
