How to Preserve Your Confidence as You Navigate Your Artistic Career
As you go about your day, suddenly you feel a flood of creative ideas flowing through your mind. All you want to do is to express your creative energy. You just feel compelled to discover what could be revealed. It might still be unformed...
How to Cope with the Pressure of an Artistic Career
You chose this career in the arts. You love it. It’s fascinating and it gives you the privilege to live your heart’s desire. Yet, you know that this work takes more than passion. You need dedication and action to for your creative ideas come to life and to make a...
Is It a Normal Creative Ebb and Flow or a Real Creative Block?
You’ve been successful as an artist for many years. You’ve always trusted and felt confident in your creativity and ability to make your art. Your art has impacted people and you have an audience that loves and respects your work. You remember those moments when...
Emotional Trauma: A Treasure of Creative Inspiration or A Place of Darkness?
Your art offers you a way to express your deepest emotions, thoughts, and life experiences. It allows you access and communicate stories that you’d otherwise never tell.
You Can Avoid Your Creative Growth Without Even Realizing It
Because you’re an artist, you often hear, “If you want to be successful, you have to show up!” Over and over again you get the same messages. Show up in your art! Show up in the world! Bring your art to those that needs it! But, sometimes, you feel confused. You...
Is Avoidance Taking Over Your Creative Life?
You want to ask for what you need, speak up, take on that new opportunity, reach out and connect with people that can bring value to your life. You dream of taking a class with your favorite acting coach. You wake up looking forward to writing the song that you’ve...
How Can You Be So Present in Your Art But So Disconnected From Your Life?
Your art allows you to live what you want to live. To feel the love you want to feel. To fight what you want to fight. To find the answers you want to find in the face of life’s messiness and complexity. It allows you to create the stories that you want. Why would...
When Envy and Jealousy Get in the Way of Your Creativity and Artistic Career
You are talented, bright, and very ambitious. You’re devoted to your creative career and you know what you want. But, you don’t seem to be happy with your creative life. You find yourself consumed with others’ success. Sometimes you feel a wave of envy taking you...
What Does It Mean to Be an Artist with a Cause?
You, the artist, have a big desire to make meaning through your art. You want to deliver a message, to fight and advocate for some important issue, or spark a cultural transformation. You want to tell stories that matter and have an impact. You feel called to make a...
Reclaim Your Lost Creative Dreams
This year I started my blog series by encouraging you, the artist, to honor your dreams. But what if you’re not clear about your dreams? As an artist you need your dreams to inspire and motivate you. They bring you in touch with your energy of love, wonder, curiosity,...
How to Honor Your Dreams: A 2019 Wish for You, the Creative and the Performer
My wish for you, the creative and the performer, in 2019 is to honor your dreams! So, take a moment and connect to your deepest desires and wishes. What is it that you long for? More genuine and meaningful connection with your audience? More creative authentic energy...
Do You Hide Behind An Emotional Armor When Away From Your Art?
Arts and entertainment careers can be so brutal. In order to make it as a creative or performer, you may have found it necessary to hide behind an emotional armor to protect yourself. This emotional armor has its value. It feels safer to take on the world behind that...
If Your Audience Is Your Mirror, What Do You See?
As an artist, you have a deep calling to create. And, at the same time, you need your audience to show you how much they value your art or your performance. When you look at your audience’s reactions to your art, you see it as a reflection of who you and what you’ve...
Are Your Unconscious Fears Keeping You Small as an Artist?
You know you’re a talented artist. And, in many ways, you believe you’re meant to live a big, meaningful creative life. Unfortunately, your dreams don’t always match up with the reality you’re living. In your fantasies, your mind takes you to all these wonderful...