Come return home to yourself. ✨
This place where you can feel the joy in your whole creative life again.

I’m Faye—an Asheville-based writer and creative care practitioner.

I help you live, feel, and create with more joy and ease through coaching, group workshops, and nourishing creative spaces and experiences.

Our lives may have been
built for burnout, but

we were born to create.

I support creative space-holders — the writers, artists, healers, helpers, solopreneurs — and those called to begin a new creative chapter in moving beyond our burnout culture narrative and return home to the joy within themselves.

A free introductory call with Faye to explore your writing and creative goals.

Upcoming Workshops & Classes

  • Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

    Julia Cameron

  • You may run out of energy, but not creativity.

    Rick Rubin

  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Jorge Luis Borges

  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

    Cicero

  • Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

    George Bernard Shaw

  • You must meet the outer world with your inner world or existence will crush you.

    Mark Nepo

  • The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

    Upstream by Mary Oliver

  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

    Andy Warhol

About
J. Faye D’Avanza

J. Faye D’Avanza, MSLIS is a writer, librarian, and creative guide who nurtures creative joy—at work, at home, in the community, and everywhere in-between.

She is the founder of Library of Care, creative empowerment coaching, workshops, and nourishing creative spaces and experiences to help you live, feel, and create with more joy and ease in your whole creative life, and the the author of the indie Substack newsletter Keeping Creative Time where she shares stories and tools of creative regeneration.

An Inward & Artward certified creative facilitator, a certified book editor, and a yoga teacher (RYT-200), she lives among the artists, tourists, trees, and mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where she can often be found drinking a matcha latte, writing in the margins of her books, and engaging in meaningful conversations with people who care deeply.

A free introductory call with Faye to explore your writing and creative goals.

Faye loves connecting with and supporting:

  • writers, storytellers, artists, musicians, and makers

  • wellness and movement practitioners

  • creative entrepreneurs and facilitators

  • neurodivergent creative minds

  • mission-driven organizations and institutions in the arts, creative business, and cultural humanities

Past or Current Clients Include: