Here are a few resources for you! This section is being updated slowly, and I will add more inspiration soon. Enjoy!
Creative Inspiration:
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen
Collage
Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage by Laurie Kanyer MA
Collage Your Life: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Creative Self-Expression and Visual Storytelling by Melanie Mowinski
Collage Du Jour by Lucie Duclos
Healing & Trauma Care:
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process by Cathy Malchioldi
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
Collective Care/Activism:
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn by Omkari Williams
PODCASTS
Creative Pep Talk
Artist/Mother Podcast - interviews incredible working artists who are also caregivers
Rebloom - conversations with artists who have taken a leap of faith to follow their creative hearts
Creative Liberation
Magic Lessons
Collaborative Alchemy Podcast with Sarah Greenman
WEBSITES
Collage Lab - run by Kelly Schaub (where I took my first collage classes!)
Bad Ass Cross Stitch - crafts/art, embroidery, and activism!
Mindy Tsonas Choi - creativity for collective belonging, liberation, and care
Shelley Klammer
Doug & Laurie Kanyer Art Collection - international art collection dedicated to collagists from 1980 to present
WILDER Collage
Kolaj Magazine
Contemporary Collage Magazine
UPPERCASE Magazine