Episode 25: Creative Breaks with Ashley & Abbigail

Join us in this last episode of Season 1 as we chat all about creative breaks, setting goals for yourself even during the slow seasons, and strategies for handling your online life when you're actively avoiding the online world. Whether you're a brand new listener or have been with us from the beginning, we can't thank you enough for joining us in the conversation here on Chasing Creative!
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Links and resources from this episode:
Edgar
Unroll.me
Inbox Pause
Boomerang for Gmail
“Don't Carpe Diem” post by Momastery
Coffee + Crumbs blog
Tip from Abbie: Listen to podcasts and/or audiobooks at 1.5 speed
How and Why to Clean Out Your TBR List on Ashley's blog, and the original post that inspired the cleanout, How to Spring Clean Your Goodreads TBR Pile from BookRiot
Other podcasts we love and recommend
Coffee + Crumbs podcast (Start with the episode about potty training!)
Freakonomics (Abbie recommends the episodes about the gender pay gap and the economics of sleep.)
Lazy Genius podcast with Kendra Adachi
#Createlounge podcast with Kayla Hollatz
Hope*Writers podcast
Uniquely Woman podcast
Mini Book Club
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Euphoria by Lily King
Quotes from the episode
“It’s kind of crazy that we have goals for our break.” --- Abbie
“I don’t know that I’ve given myself a true creative break since I started blogging in 2014.” --- Abbie
“I feel this desperation to enjoy the summer and I get really resentful of things that take me away from that. I try to drop as many projects as I can that I can’t do outside.” --- Ashley
“There’s just these tiny little things that distract you from the things that are actually important to you.” --- Ashley
“Think of one thing that distracts you and figure out how you can turn off that one thing for a little bit.” --- Ashley
“Reading isn’t supposed to be essential. It’s supposed to be fun.” --- Abbie
Here’s where to find Ashley:
Website: www.brookseditorial.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brookseditorial
Instagram: http://instagram.com/brookseditorial
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/brookseditorial
Here’s where to find Abbigail:
Website: www.InkwellsandImages.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbigailekriebs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbigailekriebs/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inkwellsandimages/