A librarian helping you thrive in your whole creative life.
Hello, I’m Faye!
A creative consultant & facilitator who also doubles as a writer-editor and holistic librarian.
You might be asking—What do you do as a creative consultant & facilitator? How can you help me?
I consult and teach creative people and organizations how to expand and connect their soul-fired work with others by practicing the principles of community engagement.
I call this creative engagement
I facilitate and lead groups who seek to connect with themselves and their community through creative living beyond burnout.
I call this creative well-being.
And we need both to thrive as artists, authors, and creative entrepreneurs in the 21st-century.
In 2020, I was a community engagement librarian by day, and a guilty writer by night. Deep into my mid-thirties, my dream “to be a writer” was fading fast as my candle for the world I love slowly burned out. Searching for meaning from the pages of my lost life, a new era began, one of repairing broken time.
How I Can Guide You
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Creative Consulting, Facilitation, & Editorial
Offerings Include:
Group or Institutional Workshops / Speaking
Creative Project Strategy Sessions
Research & Design
Collaborative Art & Editorial Projects
Event & Project Management
Copywriting & Copyediting
Publicity Kits for Individuals and Institutions
Professional Beta ReadingCustom work is available to support your needs. Publicity kits are also available as templates, priced individually or as a package.
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Classes, Workshops, & Events
Join me and other creatives for virtual and in-person classes, workshops, and events that support living a whole creative life.
2024 FALL SCHEDULE
Sun, Oct 27 — West Asheville Yoga Book Club (Asheville, NC)See a workshop you’d like to book for your group or institution? They can be customized to support your needs, and are available both virtually or on location.
As an act of self-preservation, I quit my job along with 4.5 million other Americans during The Great Resignation. Trading in the next 3 years of my life to DIY my burnout recovery, led me to discover that as an artist living in the shadows of my own life—I was also on a parallel journey of a transformative creative recovery.
The creative people I serve are:
Writers / Authors / Podcasters
Teaching Artists / Makers
Musicians / Performers
Craft Food Start-ups / Small Businesses
Creative Facilitators
Wellness Practitioners
Emerging Creatives / Practicing Creatives
Arts Institutions / Special Libraries
And I help them deeply connect with:
Bookstores / Public Libraries
Universities / Schools / Colleges
Museums / Galleries / Studios
Nonprofits / Advocacy Groups / Local Businesses
Municipal / County / Regional Government
Regional and Local Media
Their Creative Fire
Creative Audiences
My ambition to serve as a creative consultant, facilitator, and holistic librarian while supporting myself as a working writer became real in 2024 when, from the heart of Asheville, North Carolina, I launched my business Library of Care—a 21st-century library for creative people to be well, create, and thrive.
Additional Creative Offerings
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Keeping Creative Time Newsletter
Keeping Creative Time is a newsletter and guide for navigating the artist’s journey from burnout to creative well-being. Each week, Faye, a holistic librarian in Asheville, shares stories, interviews, book reviews, tools, and more to help you regenerate, keep your creative power, and find your sense of balance in the cycle of rest, digest, play, and create.
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The Collection at Library of Care
An emerging collection of resources and tools to support those on the path of living a whole creative life.
A sister project and companion toolkit to Keeping Creative Time.
Now, I prioritize joy over shame. I prioritize the time to practice and enjoy healthy habits that nourish my creative energy over the ones that don’t. And I seek out the people, places, and beautiful things that care and support me on my path of creative well-being. This is what makes it possible to do and share my soul-fired work with you. I’m so happy you are here with me, and making time to consider me as a collaborator in your whole creative life.
Are you ready to share and deeply connect your soul-fired work with communities who care—and want you to succeed?
Past clients include:
Or maybe you are ready to connect with yourself, and learn to create beyond a life built for burnout.
If so, what are you waiting for? Give yourself permission to thrive.
“You were on point, positive, encouraging, and unforgettable in your editing. You project positivity, learning, and create a wonderful aura of confidence and exciting progress. Thank you for your stellar editing guidance. The valuable lessons I learned from you continue to bolster my writing every day.”