Part of the Creative Sustainability and Distraction Strategies project exploring complementary practices, such as walking, bike riding, yoga, and cooking, in capacity and resilience for a sustainable approach to creativity practice. The research particularly enquires into the way these activities, which might be dismissed as off-task or “distraction” contribute and in some cases, are pivotal too how women artists work, and how they are restful, productive, and most often than not, essential to the ecology of the individual creative life.