67: Feng Shui Your Way with Janine Lowe and guest Katie Cooper67: Feng Shui Your Way with Janine Lowe and guest Katie Cooper
UK Health Radio Podcast
Janine Lowe talks with Katie Cooper about how pausing and simple creative practices can ease overwhelm and bring fresh clarity to busy lives. Together they share personal experiences, emotional tools and a practical approach to making stillness part of everyday wellbeing.
38:32•10 Aug 2026
Power in the Pause: Katie Cooper on Creativity, Stillness and Resetting Your Life
Episode Overview
- Pausing, even for a few minutes, can act as a reset button for the brain and nervous system, easing overwhelm and stress.
- Simple creative acts like doodling or drawing are accessible to everyone and can shift attention away from overthinking towards calm focus.
- Society often rewards busyness, but real productivity and clarity increase when you intentionally slow down and protect space to pause.
- Beliefs such as "I’m not creative" usually stem from early experiences and can be challenged by gently experimenting with pen and paper.
- Using structured creative processes around specific emotions can help people move from intense feelings towards greater peace and awareness.
“The pause creates a space. The space creates awareness. And awareness creates change.”
What drives someone to seek a quieter, more meaningful pace of life after years of busyness and burnout? This conversation between Feng Shui expert Janine Lowe and guest Katie Cooper digs into that question through the idea of "Power in the Pause®". Katie shares how a forced stop in her career – losing her coaching business overnight – left her in uncomfortable silence for the first time in her life.
That space, though terrifying, became the starting point for a new path. Her husband handed her a paint-by-numbers kit and, as she puts it, "for the first time my brain had rested in forever." From there, unexpected creativity flowed: doodling, painting emotions, exhibiting work based on levels of consciousness, and eventually supporting others through a structured creative process.
You’ll hear Katie talk about how society rewards being constantly busy, and how she used to wear "busy, busy, busy" as a badge of honour before realising it was actually draining her. She now argues that pausing is "a biological and neurological reset button" and just as important as nutrition, sleep and movement. A big part of the episode focuses on her Art of Pausing app, which guides people through short, emotion-focused creative sessions.
Users select a feeling like overwhelm, follow an eight-step drawing process with gentle music, and finish with what Katie calls "permission pebbles" – repeated affirmations drawn onto the page. The aim is simple: half an hour with pen and paper to quiet the mind and soften intense emotions. The chat is relaxed, sometimes funny, and very relatable, especially if you’ve ever felt guilty for not doing enough.
It’s ideal for anyone in recovery or dealing with overwhelm who wants a gentle, non-judgemental way to slow down, reconnect with themselves and maybe even rediscover a creative side they were once told they didn’t have. Could pausing be the missing piece in your own wellbeing toolkit?
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