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 with creativity empowerment education.
I work with:
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Creativity Empowerment Coaching
A somatic + relational approachCreativity Empowerment Coaching is a gentle, grounded space for reconnecting with your creative life through the body, relationship, and lived experience rather than pressure, productivity, or performance.
This work supports people who feel disconnected from their creativity due to burnout, overwhelm, loss, or chronic self-doubt. Together, we listen for what your body already knows, tend the nervous system, and explore creativity as a relational practice shaped by care, pacing, and trust.
Sessions blend somatic awareness, reflective conversation, and creative inquiry to help you reclaim creativity as a source of nourishment rather than extraction. There is no push to produce. Instead, we build capacity for presence, choice, and creative agency over time.
This is not about fixing your creativity.
It’s about remembering how to be in relationship with it.Creativity is not something you have to earn back its trust.
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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. and engaging in meandering conversations with people who care deeply.
