Breathing Space Creative
founded by Chelene Knight
author & Creative Practitioner
Let’s integrate your life, your writing & creative projects, into a thriving creative ecosystem that is uniquely you.
We help bring your creative net worth into focus
by turning your accumulated skills into visible, connected creative assets.
I’m Your Creative Practitioner
Hello! I’m Chelene Knight, author of five books including the award-winning novel, Junie, certified mindfulness facilitator, and coach.
With over a decade of experience in the writing & publishing industry, I support writers and other creatives by strengthening the three key layers of their creative life: the self, the project, and the ecosystem. We deserve creative lives that fit who we are.
My work is guided by the belief that creativity works best as an ecosystem. Care for yourself, and your projects grow. Align those projects, and they begin to support each other—sometimes in ways that lead to income streams that feel natural, integrated, and sustainable.
Bring your creative net worth into focus
by turning your accumulated skills into visible, connected creative assets.
At Breathing Space Creative, we look at more than just your writing or project.
We look at you … the whole creative. Your creative rhythms. Your emotional and energetic capacity. Your patterns. Your struggles. Your past expertise. Your dormant skills. Your priorities. Your relationship to your work.
Your creative net worth is the sum of every skill, lesson, and lived moment you’ve collected, so let’s chart it. So much of what you’ve built shows up in the background: the instincts you’ve honed, the craft you’ve shaped through trial and error, the emotional range you bring to your work. None of this is accidental.
When we start naming these pieces as real assets, we shift how we see ourselves as artists. We move from “I hope I’m good enough” to “look at what I’ve already built.”
My work with writers is slow work.
Intentional work. Rooted in care.
My goal is to offer writers a simplified, aligned, and sustainable approach to their creative life, one that’s rooted in self-trust, clarity, and purpose. How do I do this? By taking the time to understand what’s really going on beneath the surface. Whether we’re working through a manuscript, navigating a season of uncertainty, or clarifying your creative direction, I help you name the things that feel tangled, so you can begin to move forward with intention.
I stepped away from working inside traditional publishing because I wasn’t afforded the time to truly listen. To sit with writers long enough to understand not just what they were writing, but why. The way I support writers now is different. Slower. Deeper. More personal.
How It Works
Every writer/creative who enters this space is offered a custom treatment plan, no matter what package you select, built around your creative self—not a one-size-fits-all prescription.
We will:
Establish a baseline: gently explore your current patterns, blocks, and priorities (this is the beginning of the self work)
Prescribe small practices: reflective writing, ecosystem-designing, or shifts in mindset to help realign with your values. I’ve spent more than a decade designing my unique apothecary, which is essentially a huge database of resources, exercises, writing tools, self-exploration materials, publishing supports, courses, and more. I have a lot to pull from! I will stitch something together that uniquely fits … you. Ah just like a bespoke suit! This is the intricate work I love.
Chart your course: from the above, we co-create a roadmap that meets you where you are—whether that’s preparing to pitch a book, recalibrating after a tough season (we are all recovering from something), or starting the seeds of a creative ecosystem
Hold ongoing check-ins: through long-term mentorship or creative support calls, we adapt and evolve your plan as you grow
Let’s look at each layer
The Self
Your writing life starts with you—your values, beliefs, body, energy, and the season of life you’re in all shape what and how you create. Through reflective practices, mindfulness tools, and gentle accountability, I help you reconnect to yourself, notice patterns that affect your writing, and build a grounded, intentional way of showing up to the project.
The Project
We anchor your project around clear pillars: your why, what the work wants to do in the world, and your non-negotiables. Using a coach-like feedback approach, I offer supportive, phase-appropriate guidance … through questions, strategy, and mindset shifts, that strengthens the work while building your confidence as a creative.
The Creative Ecosystem
Your creative work is shaped by everything around it, so we zoom out to explore how your writing connects to your content, systems, processes, energy, relationships, and the life you’re living. Together, we look at what might be possible, experimenting with low-stakes visibility, gentle structures, and aligned ideas, to see what supports your creativity, circulation, and sense of sustainability over time. This is our slow-growth approach to the ever charged word … platform. ; )
How we can work together
Everyone’s process and starting point will look different. This is why every offering is custom built because you, your project, and your creative life do not fit into a template!
We move through these areas in different volumes, varying proximities, and at different paces, always tailored to your needs.
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Specifically for the writers! My 1:1 mentorship program is fully customized to each writer, diving deep into the craft of writing. We start by establishing your 'why,' your project's action, and your non-negotiables, giving you the clarity and confidence to move forward. While craft is a key focus, this mentorship goes beyond technique. It’s about fostering a resilient, growth-oriented mindset so you can make aligned, intentional decisions about your creative life, while learning how to build a writerly ecosystem that over time, gives back to you emotionally and financially. If publishing is a goal, we can add this as a focus too.
Not just for writers! Whether you’re curious about using reflective writing as a grounding tool in your creative and everyday life, or you have a specific creative project you’d like to dive into, or maybe you want help figuring out back-end workflows and processes to help make your creative admin work more efficient (this is a fave of mine by the way), I’m open to building something custom just for you. After a short meeting, I’ll get a better sense of who you are, your goals, and how I can support you, and I’ll share some possibilities you may not have considered yet. I love to design and build. It's one of my natural talents!
I also love helping creatives build and sustain a meaningful ecosystem around having a book or creative project in the world, this includes platform-building, values-aligned visibility, and creating income streams that extend far beyond book sales. This is SLOW work. But if you’re in it for the long haul, I’ll set you up to continue building on your own long after our time together wraps up.
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Creative Support calls with me are designed to assist you in uncovering and addressing the barriers that may be hindering your progress. My style is a coaching-mentorship hybrid, diverging from traditional coaching with its ebb and flow between partnership and leadership. With my skill in active-listening, certified mindfulness facilitation, and thought-provoking questions, you'll explore the core of your challenges and gain valuable insights to move forward. Post-call you will receive follow-up communication with custom recommended resources based on our discussion.
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The Forever Writers Club Community
As part of our commitment to supporting reflective creatives, we built the Forever Writers Club—a vibrant community not just for traditional writers, but for story holders, journalers, and anyone using writing as a tool for self-connection, clarity, and creative living.
This space is designed for those who see writing as more than a means to an end. Whether you're working on a book or simply using the page to stay close to yourself, the club offers ongoing support, community, and guidance.
Members can join live sessions, access thoughtful resources, and engage in meaningful conversation around creativity, mindfulness, personal growth, and the rhythms of everyday life.
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The Self-Discovery Studio | Writing & Workshops for Wellness Practitioners
You’re a therapist, coach, yoga teacher, caregiver, health care professional, or wellness practitioner who holds space for others, but need space for yourself.
You’re not using writing to become a writer. You’re using it as a tool for reflection, release, and reconnection, so you can continue to show up in your work with clarity and care. These sessions are designed to offer a pause, a soft recalibration, and a mirror through story.The Self-Discovery Studio’s Focus: Reflection-based offerings for wellness professionals, space-holders, and high-empathy creatives who crave grounding through gentle, story-rooted writing work
These offerings are currently being built. If you are a wellness practitioner, click here to have your say!
Think of it like a creative clinic—one that offers space to breathe, reflect, and realign. Whether you’re navigating a tough season, stuck in your draft, or wondering how to design a sustainable writing life, this is where we begin.
When you work with Breathing Space Creative, we go deep. We look at how you move through the world as a creative. We focus on three key areas, each offering its own path depending on where you are in your journey:
The Creative aka you, the person (the self-work)
The Project (your manuscript or creative project)
The Ecosystem (your wider creative life—the part that fuels you and maybe even contributes financially)
How do I choose the right path?
Every offering I create weaves together the self, the project, and the ecosystem, because true creative growth touches all three. Some services go deep in one area, while others offer a broader experience.
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Do you want a fully personalized journey that touches all three (self, project, creative ecosystem) but focuses mostly on the writing project?
Do you want something that doesn’t exist? Are you into co-creation? Let’s get designing together! This is a great choice for organizations, hint hint. ; )
If you just want to work on one area …
Are you simply curious or want a light-touch way to stay connected to creative growth?
*an affordable entry point—just note that access to me is limited here.
Our creativity doesn’t live apart from our lives
I help creatives build lives that actually support their art and vice versa. Through Breathing Space Creative, I guide writers and multidisciplinary artists in using writing as a tool for clarity, confidence, and innovation. My deepest desire is to help creative people carve out aligned space to live fully without compromise. I also work with organizations to design programs that reflect this vision, helping them support artists in ways that challenge narrow societal views and champion the full strength of their voices. My work helps shape creative ecosystems—both personal and institutional—that are spacious, sustainable, and entirely authentic.
At Breathing Space Creative we resist society’s push to hurry up and take the fastest route. Instead, we embrace the long path, paying attention to everything along the way, especially the things we might usually overlook.
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