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About Caitlin Creeper

Caitlin is a journalist and writer from Australia. She’s into collecting and sharing the stories of other human people. Mostly women’s stories. You can find her at @caitlincreeper

Adult friendships: how to take care of them

“And then,” she said to me. “She told me she didn’t need a friend like me anymore, and unfriended me on Facebook. I was sitting in the airport at the time. It made me cry” I’ve been hearing a lot of these stories recently. Friendships [...]

By |February 4th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Adult friendships: how to take care of them

Surfing: the sport of freedom? Not if you’re gay

Surfing: the sport of freedom? Surfing. It's the sport of freedom, they'll say. I've said it myself a million times. In the sea, sitting astride my surfboard I am free, unburdened, open, raw. "How strange it was to see men do something beautiful," Tim Winton [...]

By |January 13th, 2019|Categories: Surf|Comments Off on Surfing: the sport of freedom? Not if you’re gay

6 reasons why you need to visit El Salvador

“Home is not the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.” -Pico Iver El Salvador has been my accidental home for over two-and-a-half years. I came to explore her for two weeks and before I knew it, the [...]

By |December 28th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on 6 reasons why you need to visit El Salvador

How to get everything you’ve ever wanted in 2019

“We have lost too many days chasing the wrong things… today is the day to make things right. Today everything can be yours.” -unknown If someones profile is going to piss you off, don’t look at it. Just don’t. Mute or unfollow every profile that [...]

By |December 28th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on How to get everything you’ve ever wanted in 2019

Before anything, belong to yourself

"You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great..." -MAYA ANGELOU If your year was a book, what kind of genre would it be? She asked. It would be [...]

By |December 21st, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Before anything, belong to yourself

Burn it all Down: Reasons why we Self Sabotage

You’ve just received the career opportunity of a lifetime. A new job, or an invitation into a new project, a new client, a new business opportunity, or a promotion. The kind of thing you’ve dreamed about for years. Like, beyond-the-realms-of-wildest-dreams cool. The kind of opportunity [...]

By |December 21st, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Burn it all Down: Reasons why we Self Sabotage

Empowered Sex Series – Why some women are still having bad sex

The sex-positive movement began in the 3rd wave feminism, and the 4th wave boasts a new brand of digitally driven sex-positivity. With things like the slut walk and sex-positive resources on social media instigating social change, people are realizing that a woman's worth has sweet [...]

By |November 18th, 2018|Categories: Sex|Comments Off on Empowered Sex Series – Why some women are still having bad sex

What is a real surfer?

"I hurtle on too long through the pounding submarine mist. End over end in my caul of bubbles until the turbulence is gone and I'm hanging limp in a faint green light while all heat ebbs from my chest and life begins to leach out [...]

By |November 4th, 2018|Categories: Surf|Comments Off on What is a real surfer?

How one woman is changing the face of El Salvador through Street Art

[*] artstigator /artsˈtɪɡeɪtor/ noun: street art aficionado who artstigates, or tirelessly covers the streets of a city on the quest to document the emerging street art scene. Slightly addicted. Meet art curator Alexandra Sol. She is the creator of Journey of an Artstigator, a group of artstigators on [...]

By |October 8th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on How one woman is changing the face of El Salvador through Street Art

The Urgency of Playfulness

This post was originally published in 2016. Some parts have been edited from the original for current day relevance. This article was written about in 2016 in Psychology Today by the late American game designer, author, lecturer and fun theorist Bernie De Koven, a pioneer [...]

By |September 8th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on The Urgency of Playfulness

Dear belly rolls; I am ridiculously in love with you

A love letter to my belly... Dude. I love you so, so much. I love how you remind me of my sister and my mother and my mothers mother, all possessing the same swell of flesh perched on the edge of our waistbands. And can [...]

By |September 2nd, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Dear belly rolls; I am ridiculously in love with you

What do you weigh? How one woman is revolutionizing this question and fighting body-shaming online

What do you weigh? For some women, this question makes their blood run cold.  We live in a world that that treats every belly roll, every cellulite dimple, every thick pair of thighs like a crime. An outrage. A joke. Some sort of personal failure [...]

By |August 17th, 2018|Categories: News|Comments Off on What do you weigh? How one woman is revolutionizing this question and fighting body-shaming online

Why it’s ok to keep your relationship off social media

“I have a question for you.” A friend asked me the other day. That question never fails to jolt me into a state of half-terror / half excitement. It’s a question that gets the blood going and the heart racing, a game that has a [...]

By |July 25th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Why it’s ok to keep your relationship off social media

How to Survive Being an Introvert in an Extrovert’s World

"Why are we like this?” I found myself saying to my friend over the phone the other day, the guilt and embarrassment hot in my throat. I was in my room, alone, with the doors shut, while conversation buzzed outside. I had been around people [...]

By |July 23rd, 2018|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on How to Survive Being an Introvert in an Extrovert’s World

Your story isn’t finished. It isn’t even close.

I’m in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I need to get back to Albuquerque before nightfall, because I’ve rented out a little tiny wagon home for the night, before my flight out of the States the next day. I don’t know why I chose the tiny [...]

By |May 24th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Your story isn’t finished. It isn’t even close.

13 Affirmations for radical body love

feature image: @magsymooo   Our brain is usually talking to itself all day, at all times. So often we assume the self-talk is automatic and innate. But when was the last time you held an ear up to the voices and asked yourself what kind [...]

By |May 13th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on 13 Affirmations for radical body love

Learning to live with less: the reality

"You pay for things with hours of your life." A few years ago someone spoke these words to me. It has haunted me for life. Just like that, I was never the same again. Every time I tried to order a new dress online for [...]

By |April 29th, 2018|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on Learning to live with less: the reality

•• FREE DOWNLOAD •• Salty Club Not-Journal Mini-Journal

Hey human! As adults, it can be easy to get too deep into our own heads, and our own seriousness. With a saturation of ‘life coaching’ and ‘wellness’ people telling us what we should and should not be doing to be ‘spiritual’, journal like this, [...]

By |April 19th, 2018|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on •• FREE DOWNLOAD •• Salty Club Not-Journal Mini-Journal

Five Minutes with Surf Photographer Cait Miers

Lush beach settings, impossibly blue-green waters and magical all-girl surf sessions in exotic surf locations all over the world. Meet Cait Miers, the woman behind the lense (and screen) of @caitmiersphotography. At 24, she has released a book, a swimwear line, has a 100,000+ strong [...]

By |April 14th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Five Minutes with Surf Photographer Cait Miers

5 ways to get over creative block

What is creativity to you? Creativity is complicated. For me, it's a dance. The kind of white-lady dance where you’re not quite sure what you’re doing so you throw a whole bunch of moves together, slap on a smile and hope for the best, but [...]

By |April 8th, 2018|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on 5 ways to get over creative block

Why ‘ready enough’ is good enough.

Roughly how many times in the past six months have you told yourself you’re not ready? I’m not ready to apply for that job. I’m not ready to share my gifts with the world. I’m not ready to be more visible, more vocal, more honest, [...]

By |March 14th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Why ‘ready enough’ is good enough.

You contribute to the revolution… {poem}

You contribute to the revolution Every time you get good and vulnerable Every time you voice your emotional needs in your relationships, clearly, assertively Without apology for being "such a girl" You contribute to the revolution Every time you refuse to compete or feel threatened [...]

By |March 7th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on You contribute to the revolution… {poem}

Your two-month check-in: journalling exercises to tune-up your intentions and get you firing again!!

We're officially two months into 2018, where January seemed to last a year and February passed in two days. So now is a great time to check-in with yourself, where you're at, and where you're heading into March and April. It's journalling time! Do the [...]

By |March 4th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Your two-month check-in: journalling exercises to tune-up your intentions and get you firing again!!

How to Stop Comparing Your Life to Other People’s: a no BS guide

There is no quicker way to make yourself feel like a bag of shit than to compare your life with someone else’s. I think the Buddha said that. Or Mariah Carey. Whatever. The point is, I do not believe truer words have ever been spoken. [...]

By |February 24th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on How to Stop Comparing Your Life to Other People’s: a no BS guide

Thank you for setting me free

If you’d have wanted me back Back then I never would have left the city.   And then I never would have seen the sun setting over the desert in New Mexico as I sat in a circle of wild witches, howling at the sky. [...]

By |January 28th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Thank you for setting me free

Sobriety, moderation, conscious drinking: is it time to recalibrate your relationship with alcohol?

First light It was January first, 2018. The first day of the new year. The sun hadn’t even risen yet and my feet speared the cold sand as I walked toward the water. I remember that feeling of breaking the skin of the sea, my [...]

By |January 18th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Sobriety, moderation, conscious drinking: is it time to recalibrate your relationship with alcohol?

Have you checked your energetic hygiene lately?

As children, we were taught to be strict with our personal hygiene. To wash our hands and clean our teeth.  To change our undies daily (unless, like my sister, clothes were a foreign concept to you and you ran around 92% of the time in [...]

By |January 3rd, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Have you checked your energetic hygiene lately?

I hope you break your resolutions on day 1

I hope on the first day of 2018, you break one of your resolutions. And it takes you two or ten or twenty startovers to get into the swing of your new habit So you may see The consciously 'not doing' of something you promised [...]

By |December 28th, 2017|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on I hope you break your resolutions on day 1

Ten no-bullsh*t affirmations to turn your average day around

Mantra's are nice and feel good and all but sometimes all that light and sparkles needs a bit more grit to feel like me. Here are ten no-bullshit affirmations to turn your average day around. - Caitlin 1. I fiercely love and champion myself, exactly as I [...]

By |November 16th, 2017|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Ten no-bullsh*t affirmations to turn your average day around

Meet Caitlin — Woman of a Thousand Words

Where are you from? I am from Yankalilla, a small country town in South Australia. But my latest hometown of ten years before moving to El Salvador was the city of Perth, Australia. What got you into writing ? I have always written, ever since [...]

By |November 9th, 2017|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Meet Caitlin — Woman of a Thousand Words