Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts & Practices for Disarming Your Inner Critic & Allowing Creativity to Flow (Creative Writing Skills and
"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.
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Become an affiliateKaren C.L. Anderson is a storyteller who believes that the truth never creates suffering and that all stories can be told through the lens of truth. She is also a feminist, a writer, speaker, workshop presenter, and blogger who consciously chooses to live her life as an experiment and to view the world through the lens of curiosity and fascination. Her previous book, The Peaceful Daughter's Guide to Separating From A Difficult Mother, is an international best seller, having sold well over 100,000 copies. In another life, Anderson spent 20 years trying to fit her right-brained self into a left-brained career as a trade magazine journalist in the field of plastics (and if she had a dime for every time someone mentioned that line from The Graduate...). She is married to a left-brained engineer and they live in Southeastern Connecticut.