It's Important to Trust Yourself (And Your Creative Process)

A Life in Progress™ : Rebranding Middle Age

If we shift our focus from creative product or outcome to creative process, then it’s easier to understand that we are all inherently creative. We can stop comparing, judging, or fighting our unique creative process and instead hone it. Or at least trust it, so that we’re able to use it to bring our vision or dreams to life.

Furthermore, I’d love us to release the idea that creativity is only about problem solving or attaining a precise end-goal (attachment to outcome). I see living creatively – or handcrafting a brave and beautiful life – as a process. A choice to honour the beauty and wisdom of every season. A process of learning to trust ourselves and become our most honest and healed/integrated selves. A journey that is above all about experiencing the world and life more than about producing or consuming.

In this episode I share:

• A four stage process of creative breakthroughs and moments of insight.
• An example of how this operates in my life and why this was soooo affirming for me.
• Who might have a harder time trusting this process.
• How focusing on process over product or attachment to specific outcome lowers anxiety, increases joy, and helps us develop self-trust.
• Life visioning and taking the longer view - and thinking of our whole lives as a creative process.
• And I refer to 12 lies that keep us from a creative life.

In the episode blog post I link to a scientifically validated assessment that measures four types of skills that help people express their creativity - and share more nerdy science. :)

Thanks for being here with me - enjoy your summer!

krista xo