How to Battle Burnout with Creativity with Alyssa Rosenheck and Soho House

It is such an honor to be a Soho House Expert when it comes to Creativity! I was recently asked to share my tips on how to counteract burnout with creativity. As a proud member, I am grateful for the community Soho House continues to cultivate and share (not to mention their swoon-worthy aesthetic) .  

I like to return to my “Why” with most things in life. And full transparency, I struggle when I turn on the news. I feel heavy and helpless when I read misinformation on social media. It is hard these days to take a casual scroll for inspiration without running into stress and feeling the weight of the world. It is very easy to spiral from there, but I am here to say PAUSE and return to our baseline — Conscious Consumption and Creativity. 

Here is the good news: We have so many tools at our fingertips to alleviate our daily stress! Creativity is one of them — one I didn’t discover until later in life. One of the quickest ways to feel connected to ourselves and others is through creativity. Creativity may be used as an antidote to stress and stress is often a precursor to burnout. Creativity connects us to ourselves by helping us identify our inner needs.  It allows us to be present, process our feelings while offering a calming and nourishing practice. 

For more information and my quick and easy steps — Watch a Two Minute Video I created for Soho House. Save this for later when you need a kind and gentle companion to self care. 

For my two main tips to consider this week…

How to incorporate more creativity into our daily lives? 

1. Work with your hands: this can be cooking, gardening, floral arranging, making a vision board, and or framing artwork in your home.

2. Learn a new skill - photography, a new instrument, learn to write a song, morning pages, poetry, painting, and or styling.

I am so grateful for your time as you watch this video, and allow creativity to make the world feel a little more nourishing for you this week! I encourage ALL of us to incorporate more creativity into our lives, and, for those who have a copy on hand of The New Southern Style, check out pages 312-315 for “childlike is the new grown up” with additional  tips on ways you can do this TODAY!

Treat yourself! I am offering signed and personalized copies of THE NEW SOUTHERN STYLE that may be purchased through our local Nashville book store, Parnassus Books. They ship nationally and this is the perfect gift that will reconnect you to your creative power and cultivate the strength of community. This is a gift that keeps giving.

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Alyssa’s debut Coffee Table book, The New Southern, Out now via Abrams!

A Mini Film For YOU!!! (and How To Launch A Book in a Pandemic)

Video: Josh + Keturah Bishop, A Window In a Tunnel

If 2020 has taught us anything, it has been a lesson on hope, community, creative courage, and compassion. With all the pain we felt with lives and jobs lost, racial uprisings, tornadoes, bombings, and trauma — I still found small moments of hope. I believe it is important to celebrate and communicate what we accomplished this year during what felt like an impossible time. 

What were these moments for you? What did your moments of joy look like?

For me, I published a book in the middle of a global pandemic. I documented this for you since we were unable to physically be together, but remained connected regardless of a canceled book tour. I want this minidocumentary to serve as an expansive reminder of how resilient we are. Save it and refer back to it when you, yourself need to be reminded of your innate gifts and the community you have around you. I will look back at this moment in time with pride and resilience, and have it serve me as a wellspring of courage for future moments. How we take up space and the change we want to see in the world starts with us and comes from within.

Looking back, I wrote this book for this specific time in history. It is disguised as a design book but it is actually so much more. My images, my words, our conversations are meant to challenge old beliefs. This is a book grounded in cultural change, where we humanize and honor our differences through the lens of creativity. This book is for you, and I hope it inspires more creative courage, more hope, and more community in your own life. 

A special thank you to my team that believed in me and worked hard to support this vision and project. Enjoy, and let this video serve as a connection point to the community we’re building together!

For the holidays, I am offering signed and personalized copies of THE NEW SOUTHERN STYLE that may be purchased through our local Nashville book store, Parnassus Books. They ship nationally and this is the perfect gift that will reconnect you to your creative power and cultivate the strength of community. This is a gift that keeps giving.

Subscribe for updates, announcements & book tour locations!

Alyssa’s debut Coffee Table book, The New Southern, Out now via Abrams!

NEW RELEASE: Alyssa Shares Her AR Prescriptive Mobile Presets Taking Your Images from Phone to Feed !!!!

Do you ever feel like your photos are not living up to your expectations? I have custom created my AR Prescriptive Presets just for YOU!! Together, we are going to create the confidence to help you be your own visual story teller and brand builder. These presets are for anyone with a dream, a creative business, anyone wanting to up-level their photo game and of course, all design enthusiasts, designers and architects out there. 

My job is to study how light moves from room to room. Here, I have developed six case studies navigating light versus our environment. Let the ENVIRONMENT dictate your mobile preset choice and walk into the direction of where your intuition guides your mobile camera. The internet is at SCALE!!!! And now, more than ever, do we have opportunity at our fingertips by sharing and building our digital libraries. Let’s start building our visual currency together!!!

— Xx AR

I N T R O D U C I N G

AR Prescriptive Presets

Be your own visual story teller and brand builder

Each preset bundle includes:

• WELCOME VIDEO

• MOBILE INSTALLATION GUIDE & VIDEO

• AR PRESCRIPTIVE PRESETS INTRO GUIDE

• AR SHOOTING TIPS & TRICKS

• THE CONFIDENCE TO TAKE YOUR VISUAL BRAND INTO YOUR OWN HANDS

The presets are designed for mobile photography (not professional DSLR photography).
Compatible with the free ADOBE LIGHTROOM APP for iPhone and Android.

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Alyssa’s debut Coffee Table book, The New Southern, Releases September 2020 via Abrams

Thrive Global | Alyssa Rosenheck’s Tips to Counteract Burnout with Creativity

I am thrilled to be sharing a few personal tips with Arianna Huffington’s new site Thrive Global. Starting a new decade on a high note is one thing, maintaining our healthy mindset throughout the year is another. Let’s discuss ways to bypass burnout, corporate comas, and good ole autopilot to set ourselves up for success this year and many more decades to come. I speak from experience. Before becoming a creative entrepreneur, my corporate background involved two Fortune 100 companies in intense sales positions where vacations and dialogues of healthy habits were often overlooked for 80 hour work weeks. Ensuring the corporate bottom line came at a personal price. Today, I am sharing my universal tips to counteract burnout while yielding creative connection and maximum well-being. Investing in yourself and your mindset will result in the ultimate ROI.

ONE | Prevention is predicated on self-awareness

How do we achieve self-awareness? This involves a daily practice of being both objective and present with what we are feeling and how we are experiencing the world around us. Being honest about our emotional check ins helps us understand if we are on the right path, where we need to pivot and what we can personally improve. Great tools to help us identify our self-awareness are journaling, breathing techniques, guided meditations and simple questions.

“How am I feeling”
“What are my needs in this current moment?”
“Am I fulfilled?”
“What do I need to incorporate or limit to achieve a state of internal fulfillment?”

TWO | Creativity connects

One of the quickest ways to feel connected to ourselves and others is through creativity. Creativity revitalizes the human spirit, connects us to our heart equity and exposes our passions. When we look at life or problems through the lens of creativity we immediately restore a sense of childlike wonder and open ourselves up to creative possibilities, solutions and shifting our energy to that of positivity. I am a firm believer that when we connect to our creativity, our purpose shortly follows along with our community.

Three | The power of Visualization

How many of us feel restricted by our current set of circumstances? I have been there and have raised my hand to this. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with cancer, did I begin to surrender to something greater than myself. I lived an entire decade prior being ruled by my current set of circumstances, living paycheck to paycheck in the corporate world while giving away my personal power. There wasn’t room for me to dream, there wasn’t space for my femininity within the male dominated industries, and I was operating from a place of fear. Going through cancer allowed me to switch the script and start visualizing the life I wanted to create for myself and for my family. Cancer at the time was an external event that awakened internal choices creating a new life and new reality for myself. On a daily basis, visualize the life you want for yourself - feel the emotions that come with feeling internally fulfilled. Visualize what you want your life to look like from a 50,000 view and then reverse engineer what you want your weeks/days to look and feel like. Visualize being greater than your current set of circumstances and follow these intentions with small actions. When we start shifting our mindset coupled with action is when change and transformation happens.