If you’re a creative in business, you likely are familiar with burnout, characterized by feelings of energetic exhaustion, disconnection from your work, or cynicism about your work. As a creative, burnout is a common companion to the starving artist stereotype, but it doesn’t have to be your experience! Below you’ll find examples of tools and tactics from creatives on how to avoid burnout.
Photography has always been something that I love to do, then I found out that I could make it into a career, and it was the best decision I ever made. The best part is working on multiple projects and sharing them with my community. For this project, I decided to collaborate with my mother and help tell her story.
We began discussing how altar building can be a form of healing and connecting with our spiritual selves and ancestors. This year has brought so much challenge, loss, and spiritual attack, that we both felt that perhaps our community would need this spiritual form of healing.
We are experiencing something quite unique. During this time, there’s not many answers in helping us navigate our way through how to run our business. We decided to help our fellow business owners, creatives, and entrepreneurs, by hosting a zoom gathering.
As many of you know, January was National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Here at YBH, we partnered with Shyne San Diego and Amari Dixon Photography to present Behold Her, a portrait exhibition featuring local survivors of human trafficking.
When I graduated from college, I hitched a ride across the country with two women I’d met the week before. I rode with them from Olympia, Washington to somewhere on the east coast, where they dropped me off at a train station and I caught a train into New York City.
The news makes us deeply sad almost every day. We know there’s good in the world, but there’s also a lot that needs to be changed, both abroad and in our own community. But being sad and doing nothing isn’t going to get us anywhere. At YBH, we intend to keep trying to change the world, even when it feels futile.
For our inaugural event last week, Crosby Noricks of PR Couture led 16 participants through the creation of their own Brandifesto, a storytelling device and standalone content piece designed to help clarify a brand’s purpose, message, and value in order to connect with the target audience and optimize content strategy.
The dramatic play, “To Fall In Love,” (winner of the Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Drama awards at San Diego’s own Fringe Festival in 2017), has nabbed at spot at Edinburgh’s fest this year, and the team is working to fundraise their way across the pond.
We love Pride Month: rainbows, inclusion, parades, and all. And being all up in our feel-goods about it last week, we were a little shook to see the Catholic Church officially reject the notion of gender fluidity. The institution claims that a culture-wide “disorientation” is trying to cancel out the “natural difference between man and woman.” However, the church’s “guide” to the “most debated questions around human sexuality” ignores one crucial fact: gender is a social concept, not a biological or religious one.
May was Mental Health Awareness Month. This year at YBH, we wanted to acknowledge this by participating in a community event that tackled the subject of mental health in a creative and meaningful way. We were proud to join forces with Ramel Wallace and Daniel Koestner of The Holyfield to present Monsters, a multi-media exhibition exploring the manifestation of monsters in our lives and the transformations that are possible when we “turn our monsters into masterpieces.”
DOCUMENTARY FILM TO SCREEN ON TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019
SPONSORED BY: YOU BELONG HERE, THE ROC SHOP, AND RAYGUN CREATIVE
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Written, produced and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2015.
Two weeks after opening our doors last November, we hosted our first holiday pop-up market/benefit drive at You Belong Here. It was a teeny but mighty pop-up. In our 1250 square-foot space, we had twenty two local vendors showcasing their goods, plus holiday-inspired cocktails from Please & Thank You and a cheese and charcuterie spread (to die for) presented by Smoke and Brine Co.Meka Coffee brought their coffee cart. Rebecca Eichten put together a wreath-making station. And three local bands sang their hearts out. Everyone came together for some serious holiday cheer.
And it was all done in support of a local non-profit.
