Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts & Practices for Disarming Your Inner Critic & Allowing Creativity to Flow (Creative Writing Skills and Confidence Builders)

by Karen C.L. Anderson

Overview

Journal Your Way to Creativity and Confidence

“The practices in this marvelous journal will open you up to your own creative genius!” —Susannah Seton, author of Simple Pleasures

Journal away from anxiety and towards confidence through the power of creative writing and mind-body practices. Equal parts self-esteem workbook, adult activity book, and mindfulness journal, this indispensable guide calls all creatives to calm down and improve artistic confidence.

Anxiety relief for creatives. Do you want to live a more creative life? Are you tired of the voice inside your head saying, “you’re not good enough,” “you’re not creative enough,” blah blah blah? It’s easier to be a critic than a creator, so what happens when both the anxious critic and the ambitious creator reside inside your brain? Unlike other guided journals, Overcoming Creative Anxiety shares unique journal prompts and practices to help you get to know both your inner critic and your inner creator.

Banish stress, foster self-care, and improve self-confidence. There’s constructive criticism, and then there’s crippling criticism. To many creatives, self-doubt and perfectionistic tendencies only aggravate artist block. So what do we do when anxiety causes creativity to come to a halt? Here, author Karen C.L. Anderson provides journal prompts that simultaneously stimulate your inner creator and provide much needed anxiety relief for your inner critic. Whether journaling for self-care or in search of stress relief, this book helps you:

• Understand creativity and artistry in a whole new way
• Meet, get to know, and change your relationship with your inner critic(s)
• Learn practices to calm your anxiety and discover ways to harness your emotion

If you enjoy activity books for adults or found books like Tiny Buddha's Worry Journal, The Self Confidence Workbook, or The Artist's Journey helpful, you’ll enjoy Overcoming Creative Anxiety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642502527
Publisher:	TMA Press
Publication date:	06/16/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	154
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Through her books and other writings, Karen C.L. Anderson helps women take a compassionate look at the troubled relationships they have with their mothers and/or daughters and guides them to reveal patterns, heal shame, and transform legacies.

She is the author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters, A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration (March 2018) and the upcoming guided journal, The Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship Journal: A Guide For Revealing and Healing Toxic Generational Patterns (January, 2020).

Be on the look out for Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts & Practices for Disarming Your Inner Critic & Allowing Creativity To Flow coming in the spring of 2020.

Karen also runs occasional programs and workshops and is at work on a memoir, A Letter To The Daughter I Chose Not To Have.

She lives in Southeastern Connecticut with her husband and their two cats. She acknowledges that, at times, she has been a difficult stepmother, but never evil.

Through her books and other writings, Karen C.L. Anderson helps women take a compassionate look at the troubled relationships they have with their mothers and/or daughters and guides them to reveal patterns, heal shame, and transform legacies.

She is the author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters, A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration (March 2018) and the upcoming guided journal, The Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship Journal: A Guide For Revealing and Healing Toxic Generational Patterns(January, 2020).

Be on the look out for Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts & Practices for Disarming Your Inner Critic & Allowing Creativity To Flow coming in the spring of 2020.

Karen also runs occasional programs and workshops and is at work on a memoir, A Letter To The Daughter I Chose Not To Have.

She lives in Southeastern Connecticut with her husband and their two cats. She acknowledges that, at times, she has been a difficult stepmother, but never evil.

Table of Contents

Preface 8

Meet Your Inner Critie 16

Somatic Practice One 56

Cultivate Your Inner Advocate 58

Somatic Practice Two 90

Pop Quiz 92

Somatic Practice Three 100

Remember Your Creative Self 102

Somatic Practice Four 124

Inspire Yourself 126

Resources 136

Acknowledgments 138

About the Author 140

Thank You 142

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“I always felt that I couldn't draw or play a musical instrument or even be any good at crafts because of old programming from childhood, so I didn't try for years until a friend talked me into taking a painting class. Through this and other artistic pursuits, I discovered my true self. The practices in this marvelous journal will open you up to your own creative genius!” —Susannah Seton, author of Simple Pleasures

“What is stopping you from living your life to the fullest and realizing your wildest dreams? Let coach extraordinaire Karen C.L. Anderson help you remove any obstacles that are getting in your way. Highly recommended!” —Louise Harmon, author of Happiness A to Z