How Nurturing Self-Compassion Inspires Creativity

11/14/23 • 10 min

While our creativity is a beautiful expression of our own personal unique gifts and ideas, it can also carry with it a lot of things that can end up hindering our progress... Things like criticism, self-doubt, and perfectionism. So in this week's Design & Shine podcast episode, I explore why it's important to cultivate and nurture self-compassion.

I share my thoughts on:

What having self-compassion as a creative means
Why it can help us progress in our creative practice
How not having it can hurt us and keep us stuck
What having self-compassion requires and how to nurture it!

So listen to this episode and start nurturing your self-compassion so that you can continue to grow and thrive as an artist today! 🎤🎧

I share my thoughts on:

What having self-compassion as a creative means
Why it can help us progress in our creative practice
How not having it can hurt us and keep us stuck
What having self-compassion requires and how to nurture it!

So listen to this episode and start nurturing your self-compassion so that you can continue to grow and thrive as an artist today! 🎤🎧

Previous Episode

Staying Persistent Despite Failure And Rejection

If you love what you're creating but you're facing a lot of failures, rejections, resistance, and you're hearing ''no thank-you'' so often, you may start to wonder how you're going to keep going...

How are you going to stay persistent if you're constantly facing obstacles?

This is what I want to explore with you in this episode:

The power of staying persistent and how you can learn some practical strategies that will help you keep at it!

I'll share tips on:

How to maintain a positive mindset about failure and rejection
How to turn a ''no'' into an opportunity to improve and grow
When to seek feedback or help from others
How to stay committed to your goal yet also stay adaptable to change
How to keep moving forward when you're feeling defeated!

So listen to this episode to get your mind back on track if you've been feeling like giving up on your art recently!

Next Episode

How Your Hidden Limiting Beliefs May Be Sabotaging Your Creative Success

Recently, my family and I invited a new member into the family - a PUPPY!!! His name is Juno. And while it's been a LOT of fun these last few weeks getting to know him, it hasn't been as much fun training him not to wee in the house! 😅 But it has been interesting to watch him learn. It's made me reflect on how - with anything new we learn - our brains need to be 'trained' just like my Juno's. I know mine did when I first started my creative business years ago... I had to 'train' my brain to overcome my self-doubt about whether or not I could reach success as a surface pattern designer and artist. That self-doubt, self-sabotage, and lack of confidence come from hidden, subconscious beliefs that we're often not even aware of until we do the deeper work of looking for them and examining them. These are our limiting beliefs, and if you've ever felt stuck, frustrated with your lack of progress, or filled with doubt that you could ever make it as a creative (which ALL of us have, of course!) then you know exactly what it feels like to have them! So in this week's episode of the Design & Shine podcast, I explore what limiting beliefs are and how they might be holding you back from the creative success you desire - and how to get started overcoming them!🎤🎧