Category: artist lifestyle stories

Being an artist isn’t just what you do, it’s how you move through the world. Artist Lifestyle Stories explores the full, unfiltered experience of living a creative life: the restless ambition, the burnout, the relationships, the identity questions, and the quiet moments that shape who you are. From navigating a Type A personality to finding gratitude, from journaling your way through hard times to speaking up about the world around you, these stories are for creatives who know that the art and the life are inseparable.

Latest posts below:

Why Creative INTJ Women Are So Rare
Yessenia Matamoros
August 30, 2026
INTJ Women and the Creative Life If you’re like me, you may have butted heads at work a few times with others and not understood…
Reading the Bible to Disprove God: My Anxiety, ADHD, and Salvation Testimony
Yessenia Matamoros
July 15, 2026
Chest pain. Numbness in my arms. That feeling like I’m going to have a heart attack. There’s too much on my mind that I’ve pushed…
How I Masked My ADHD for 34 Years — Until Divorce and COVID Made It Impossible
Yessenia Matamoros
July 8, 2026
The Weight of Faking It What will they think of me when they realize I am faking all of it? Every day I suffered with…
I’m a Type A Creative. Here’s How I Learned to Stop Chasing and Start Being Grateful
Yessenia Matamoros
March 13, 2026
Type A personalities like mine are often defined by an endless drive: always searching for the next goal, the next problem to solve, the next…
Why the Rare 1% of INTJ Women Struggle (and Succeed) at Work
Yessenia Matamoros
August 31, 2025
Female INTJ personality types make up only 1 % of the population. If you didn’t already feel unique, now you know how rare you are.…
Why Honesty in Society Matters: Economy, Work, and Home
Yessenia Matamoros
August 29, 2025
Honesty is vital for the functioning of society across the economy, workplace, and personal relationships. Trust, which stems from honesty, is essential for productive interactions…
Improving Animal Care in Lancaster: Act 119 Revisions Needed
Yessenia Matamoros
November 1, 2024
Closing the Loophole in Act 119 to Improve Animal Welfare in Lancaster County Imagine a puppy confined to a small cage with other puppies, deprived…
The Artist in a Cage
Yessenia Matamoros
December 9, 2023
I am angry that my time is counted in traffic. Time is spent traveling to work. I’d never go to work if I didn’t have…
A Hongkonger’s Story: How China’s CCP Is Erasing Hong Kong’s Freedom
anonymous
June 27, 2022
This is the story of a Hongkonger who is currently living through the changes that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is imposing on Hong Kong…
Anxiety is Killing Me and I Need to Defeat It
Yessenia Matamoros
August 28, 2021
When I say that anxiety is killing me, I mean it literally. Three days ago, I woke up in the middle of the night clutching…