18/06/2026
Three days in a conference room taught me something I keep having to relearn. My creativity does not live in my head. It lives in my body.
By day three I felt it. My sleep had gone shallow. My thinking had gone flat. The ideas that usually arrive when I am walking or moving or out in the world weren’t coming..
Here is what I know about myself. When I move, I think. When I move, I sleep. When I move, the ideas come and the words come and I feel like myself again. When I sit still for too long…my body hurts and my brain stops (not in the good way)
We treat creativity and sleep like they happen in the mind. So much of it happens in the body first. Movement is not the thing I do once the important work is done. For me, it is what makes the important work possible.
If your thinking feels flat or your sleep is off, ask yourself one simple thing before you blame your mind. How long has your body been still?