
Courage to Create is where story meets neuroscience. I write about courage, identity, and using writing to break mental loops, make clearer decisions, and live the life you keep sensing but haven’t fully stepped into yet.
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“Who do you want to be when you grow up?”
Lydia asked me in the hallway. We were seventeen, walking out of history class, and our teacher had just spent the whole lecture on psychology. Somewhere in that hour, I fell in love with it.
I...
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Most of what I’ve published in the past two years, I wrote in places nobody would photograph for Instagram.
The parking lot before work, engine off. Lunch breaks. The car before I picked up my son. Parking lots at sports events, during the...
There is a notebook on my nightstand I have never opened. Cream pages, a ribbon down the spine, still sealed in its plastic. I can hear the wrap crackle when I reach past it for the lamp, which is, frankly, the only use it has had.
Underne...
“Writers write, creators create, I just work.” ~ Magdalena Ponurska circa 2023
For most of my adult life, that sentence ran quietly underneath everything I did. Work was the one thing I knew how to do, and I did a lot of it.
Last week I s...
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Mother who rewired her life with a notebook and won't shut up about it. Innovation Strategist by day, founder of Courage to Create. Identity, neuroscience, and building something real in stolen moments.
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