Create Me Free

Create Me Free is the heart's work of Kathryn Vercillo — a writer, artist, and researcher who has spent twenty years exploring the beautiful, complicated relationship between creativity and health! What began as a deeply personal journey, picking up a crochet hook during a difficult season of depression and discovering that making things could be a way through, grew into a life's calling. Kathryn has since written books used in hospitals and classrooms, earned a Masters in psychology, and listened to hundreds of artists and makers share how their health shapes their creative lives. All of that listening became something tangible: the Creative Health Cartography framework.At Create Me Free, the belief is simple and quietly radical — the answers to what works for you are already inside you. Kathryn's approach is warm, strengths-based, and rooted in disability justice and trauma-informed care, designed to meet artists, writers, and makers exactly where they are. Whether someone is thriving creatively or finding it hard to even call themselves an artist right now, Create Me Free holds space for all of it, and gently helps people see their own patterns more clearly so they can work with themselves rather than against themselves. It's a place where creativity and wellbeing get to grow together!