an energizing program for creative visionaries to breakup with overthinking & become THAT BITCH who boldly brings your art to life
bad girl art club isn’t for artists who are bad or wanna be bad — it’s for those of us who have spent our whole lives trying desperately to be GOOD.
To be thoughtful. Polite. Generous. Wise!
None of these qualities are wrong! And we’re not here to abandon them. We’re here to give them an upgrade.
Because now you’re ready for what’s next:
The saucy romance novel you wanna write with a fat, disabled lead!
The story-driven video game you wanna build that systematically undermines patriarchy!
The creative community you long to launch rooted in radical joy.
To get to where you wanna go now, you’ve gotta return those parts of yourself that in your drive to be “good,” you learned to shame & hide.
Parts like:
✨ the big-feelings you spend hours trying to minimize & make palatable in the Just-Right email
✨ your half-assed first drafts
✨ gladly standing by your newly raised rates even after a stranger on the internet tells you you’re charging, “too much”
In bad girl art club, you’re continually building the skills to put the good girl away and put art FRONT & CENTER.
Because art doesn’t GAF about your goodness — it wants your wholeness. Your honest expression. Your messy truth.
Learn to be with those parts of yourself with compassion (even when it feels momentarily “bad”) and:
✨ you not only start writing your book, you finish it too (putting you in the top 1% of writers!!)
✨ you not only dream of painting, you paint the whole damn collection!!
✨ you not only talk about building a community who loves your poems, you show up each day & create it!
And when a Chad comes along to shame you for charging or sharing “too much,” you block & move on without any fuss bc you’ve already done the work of unshaming yourself!!!
If you thought you already nailed those skills, your book would be DONE by now!
This is who you become in bad girl art club.
Applications are open.
Join us.
Real results from my clients + community:
Meghan wrote and recorded an album in our time working together. She then used the tools to go on to write and publish a book of poems in the year following!
Parv went from spiraling in perfection-mode, wasting huge hunks of his weekend perfecting pieces he did not even feel connected to, to building up a deeply-personal body of art he actually enjoyed creating.
Ellen took her robust creative practice and built up multiple income streams around it, so she could work full-time as an artist and community leader!
bad grl art club is a six-month mastermind for artists ready to build the skills and self-trust that help you finish what you start and share it with the world.
Here, you’ll learn to:
start drafting now, even when everything in you is screaming, “let’s just start tomorrow!!”
transmute “I’m so stuck and lost!!” into “let’s fuck around and find out!!!” whenever your painting gets to a place where you don’t know what’s next
stop your inner-critic’s cruelty dead-in-its-tracks, so you can write freely without it breathing down your neck
take your most-important creative idea from start to finish without ditching half-way-through to chase something shiny and net
utilize your sensitivities to create hyper-specific art that is a fucking LIGHT other neurodivergent folks just like you
return to your art with excitement even after ditching it for a few weeks bc you wanna share your work with new-art-friends, goddamnit, and that means it’s gotta get made!
Your creative dreams deserve a life outside your head, even if it’s peak cringe.
Because cringe doesn’t kill.
Avoiding your creative brilliance does.
Embrace your brilliance every week at the bad girl art club.
you finish a first draft in record time because you’re no longer compulsively performing perfection and it feels fun
you record and post a reel in less than 10 minutes while in your PJs because you know your ideas are powerful even if your hair is messy
you stop trying to sell a million $10 products to earn a living wage and start pricing your art to actually provide for you and not for this false good girl insistence that to be morally superior, you must be broke
you sell your art to your email list four times this week and get nothing but unsubscribes, but you feel badass anyways because you know the piece is powerful and it’s only a matter of time before it finds its forever home.
You’re not disowning and policing your expression — you’re radically letting it flow.
Your creativity, supercharged.
Here’s what happens when you embrace your fear in the bad girl art club:
pixie came to me with an already robust creative practice, and over the course of working together, became more anchored in their authority as an artist and launched the Creative Chaos Goblin Art Movement — a global online community that is helping artists in 19 countries across North America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania break-up with perfectionism and create for the joy of it again!
“The scaffolding and nutrition you and your space has provided has been crucial in my growth towards my own wisdom, and ability to see myself as capable and worthy.”
This mastermind weaves mindset, strategy, embodiment, nervous system work, and creative practice into one integrated approach — because real transformation happens when all parts of you shift together.
Here’s what you’ll be learning and practicing together:
1. Embodying Creative Self-Love
You’ll work with practices like The Pause to build self-trust and increase your capacity to process big-feels without self-abandoning.
That way, every time you write on a vulnerable topic and your good girl screams, “MISSION ABORT!!” you aren’t just reacting in obedience but equipping yourself with nervous system support to expand your ability to do hard things from a place of love.
Result: Art-making actually starts to feel fun and life-giving again, so you finish more of what you start!
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2. The Creative Trail Guide for Sustaining Momentum at Every Stage of the Process
Here we break the creative journey into predictable phases so you always know where you are, what’s normal, and what to do next to support the process along.
Result: You’ll have clear tools, rituals, and accountability structures that support consistent progress — even when resistance, overwhelm, and life shows up. No more collapsing under the pressure of your own ideas or the fear of not knowing what comes next.
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3. Shitty Art Challenge
Your secret weapon for unfussy first drafts & sustainable visibility!
You’ll experience the joy and creative freedom of half-assing it on purpose and practice messy, playful output (that, yes, your inner “good girl” deems as shit!) that gets you out of your head and into the flow of making again.
Result: You stop performing perfection and start building up trust in your voice and capacity to share freely without a lot of over-thinking (and shame spirals) involved. You create more, share more and builds more connection, thought leadership, and trust — first and foremost with yourself.
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4. Creative Shadow → Creative Spark
An embodied approach to shadow work.
You’ll excavate the specific stories, fears, and beliefs that keep you hiding and alchemize them into creative fuel.
Result: As you welcome back the disowned parts of yourself, they return with gifts: voice, texture, originality, power. This is how your creativity stops being safe and becomes magnetic.
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5. Artistry, Honesty, & Chemistry
Our mastermind’s core values for the year!
Artistry: Define artistic excellence in your craft and your creative process for yourself.
Result: This gives your inner-good-girl-critic helpful criteria to work with, taking her feedback from vague and abusive, to highly specific and strangely supportive?! It’s time to put that star-student kink for your own advantage!
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Honesty: Cultivate enough safety within yourself to honesty assess the habits that are holding you back and how you secretly benefit from them, so you can embody the change growth requires.
Result: When you approach honesty from a place of care, self-compassion and community, you move beyond, “Yeah I know I should to delete instagram!!” and instead delete the damn app!!
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Chemistry: Work with (not against!) your neurochemistry to build sustainable momentum on your creative projects! You’ll integrate rituals that help you micro-dosing dopamine and keep that sizzling spark alive with your art.
Result: The process goes from feeling like a chore to playing your fav game or making out with someone you’re falling for! The more fun you have, the more art (and money!!) gets made.
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What’s included:
1) Twelve live teaching & group coaching calls (75–90 minutes each)
These twice-monthly, interactive workshops and “spotlight-style” coaching calls will shift how you show up to your art. Where your edges, shadows, cringe, and brilliance all get witnessed and supported in real time.
These sessions are hosted Sundays at 1 pm ET/ 10 am PT.
2) Three 1:1 creative breakthrough calls (75 minutes)
Personalized coaching calls with me where we go deep on your art and creative goals — what’s working and what’s holding you back. These calls blend nervous system expansion, shadow work integration, and research-backed creative strategies! Come with questions and frustrations and leave with clarity and next steps.
3) Twenty-Four Creative Flow Labs (90 minutes — weekly)
Think: body-doubling for artists! Art time on the calendar each week where showing up to greet your creative edges with curiosity and persistence gets easier and easier — because you’re not doing it alone.
These calls are hosted Saturdays at 4 pm ET/ 1 pm PT.
4) Creative Resource Library & Private Online Community
Lifetime access to the tools & resources that make up our mastermind’s resource library! Creative prompts, tool-kits, the creative trail guide & more. Plus, access to our private discord community where you can ask questions, share your work, celebrate wins and be supported in community between calls.
5) 1:1 Voxer Support (Friday–Sunday access)
For more direct support, you get access to a private line with me on Voxer! Ask questions, share struggles in real-time, and expect to hear back from me during my office hours with coaching, pep-talks, gentle ass-kicking and all the support you need to keep moving forward.
6) Playful Bonuses
Small surprises make a long-term community feel more electric & alive! I’m still finalizing our bonus calendar for 2026 but think things like: art crit clubs (time dedicated to getting feedback on your work!) and creative-play workshops!
Cost of program: $2400 paid-in-full or $400/month
A note on applications:
The application is a way of opening the door for conversation and to make sure we gather a well-rounded group of artists & creatives!
The application asks just three things:
• one link to your social media, blog, and/or website
• a sentence about the creative goal you want to work towards together
• a sentence on what you’d bring to our community
This is all just to get a sense of who you are and what you’re working towards.
I’m not looking to judge your follower-count or online presence. I’m looking to curate a diverse-as-possible group of fierce-and-thoughtful creative baddies.
You’ll hear back from me on your application within 2–3 business days.
If accepted, tuition is due to claim your seat. Monthly payments are available!
If you have questions or want to make sure it’s a good fit prior to applying, please reach out to me hello@ashleytrabue.com for a no-pressure back and forth exploring if the cohort is a fit for you.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and close when spots fill. If the link is active, spots are open, and you can apply!
Karolyn, a corporate baddie by day, stepped more fully into her identity as an artist and began weekly publishing her photography and writing to a personal Substack blog, as well as deepening a creative practice exploring oil pastels and poetry.
By the end of the year, that snowballed into hitting “publish” on a professional photography website. A week later, she received her first purchase inquiry!
if we haven’t been properly introduced yet, hi!
I’m ashley — a former Montessori teacher and internationally-collected, multi-passionate artist, author and founder of the creative self-love club.
I give a shit about you (specifically neurodivergent, highly creative, big-feeling, ambitious-af, women, non-binary, and queer folks) feeling more at home in yourself and your creativity and art-making, because I give a shit about you feeling more at home in this world. It’s all connected!
This world is a better place because you exist, and I want MORE OF YOU to exist.
I want more of your spontaneous ideas, your passing whims, your artistic explorations, your paintings and books and classes and movements radiating out into the world!!
First and foremost because then you yourself get to experience the delight and thrill of your own unfolding. You yourself get to reckon with the felt-truth that IT IS A GOOD THING YOU EXIST.
You are good (even when you’re bad!) and more of you in the world (even if you’re inner asshole good girl says its shit) is a good thing.
And, secondly, I want you to experience the pleasure of others benefitting from the magic and medicine of your art.
There are folks out there just waiting to be uniquely inspired and nourished BY YOU AND YOUR ART.
And they will never experience it, and you will never know the thrill of creative communion and synergy with them, if you don’t allow yourself to be as creatively big as you want to be.
Which, yes, sometimes means allowing yourself to be/feel “bad,” and cringe and making work that’s mid all the while learning how to love the fuck out of yourself anyways.
And I’m only able to want this for you (yes you!) because, well over a decade ago, I first wanted this for me. Because for many years, I felt TERRIFIED of showing up and showing my ass.
I felt TERRIFIED of being seen in my art and ideas and risking failure bc I thought that would mean proving I wasn’t worthy.
I felt MUCH MORE comfortable spinning out in circles, rewriting tiny corners of a poem to death than I did in being creatively prolific. Until one day, I was tired of it.
I wanted the discomfort of change more than I wanted the discomfort of staying the same, and therein began a lifelong journey of coming home to myself and my creativity.
This is the very work I’ve been sharing with others for the past six years. I’ve coached other painters, musicians, actors, writers, poets, weavers, jewelry makers, teachers, therapists, and healers.
I hope the next one is you!!
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I find that when programs are too long (like, say, 12 months) it can be easy to hang in the back of the class and assume, “I have plenty of time — I’ll do more with this later.” But we get good at what we practice, and I want to help you practice leaning IN to your art and saying YES to the things that matter for you.
Six months is long enough to start building real trust and safety both in our coaching relationship but also for you within yourself, and short enough that you feel inspired to lean in and show up! -
If you find that at the end of six-months, you want more support, you can always re-enroll.
A lot of creatives — especially those who opt to work at a group-coaching level — find it helpful to remain in these spaces for longer stretches of time, as they work toward completion of their projects and goals.
Current members will always have first choice or re-enrollment before I open up new spots to the public! -
Even if you don’t have a specific product-based goal (ie like drafting a manuscript, publishing a regular blog, painting a series, etc.) if you have a process-based goal (like showing up weekly to create for the fun of it, writing for myself, exploring new mediums, etc.) the program will likely still be very supportive to you!
There may be corners of it (like our art-crit call!) that aren’t for you, but who knows! You might get in and find fun areas of your practice and goals that could benefit from outside love and feedback.That said, if you’re satisfied in your current creative flow with no complaints or goals you wanna be exploring but aren’t, this probably is not for you!
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No — all sales are final.
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If accepted, you can pay-in-full or split your tuition into six, auto-draw monthly payments. I am not offering scholarships for this program at this time.
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This program requires roughly 2-3 hours a week which includes our weekly 90 minute creative flow session.
Of course, you can always give your creative work more time, and this program offers the infrastructure to support you in doing just that.
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