This post is for those who believe they aren’t “allowed” to make art because they lack training. It’s for those who put aside creative pursuits for years, maybe decades, and think it’s too late to heed the call now. It’s for those who let fear stifle that still, small voice inside urging their creative expression, believing their efforts won’t be good enough so there’s no point in trying.
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This post is for those who believe they aren’t “allowed” to make art because they lack training. It’s for those who put aside creative pursuits for years, maybe decades, and think it’s too late to heed the call now. It’s for those who let fear stifle that still, small voice inside urging their creative expression, believing their efforts won’t be good enough so there’s no point in trying.
We talk about “igniting” our creative spark, but I maintain that if you have any desire to create, your spark is already lit! And if you aren’t expressing your gifts despite the call, the problem is not that there’s no spark, but that it’s imprisoned somewhere deep inside of you, banging on the bars of its cell, desperately seeking escape to light the fire within you that will propel you to make manifest your unique creative gifts.
From my experience, the solution to freeing the spark is simple, but may feel impossibly hard because of our resistance.
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That’s what I’ve told myself all my life.
So why, you may ask, did I create an online presence around my “healing doodles?”Continue reading “I am Not an Artist”
I want to tell you a story about a fictional person we’ll call Jane.
Jane goes to a job interview that she really wants. She’s already nervous about making a good impression. Unfortunately, she senses the interview goes poorly because it was quite short. When she leaves, she begins to ruminate on why it didn’t go well. She replays it over and over thinking about what she might have said or done differently. She starts beating herself up, telling herself she’s just a screw up and thinking about all the ways she failed. Now, her anxiety over this is ratcheting up.
Recently, I hit an emotional bottom and realized that I need to work yet another 12-Step program, this one around my family of origin trauma issues. Last year was a year where the veils of denial were ripped away around the facts of my childhood and its effect on my own parenting and life path. Gratefully, I am sober, abstinent, solvent, you name it. But now, it’s anger, sadness, and other emotions that have taken me captive.
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