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Merideth offers three practical take-aways for how to love your artist-self well.

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Self-Coaching Questions:

1. What action do you need to take this week to find more confidence?

2. Who can you invite into your process by sharing your experience and vulnerably opening up about your creative life? What might you be missing when you are not letting yourself be fully known?

3. Look back at a work of art you made that you are really proud of: was there a coda, or a place towards the end where all the strings were tied up together, that may have just appeared out of nowhere? Study your previous process with curiosity not judgment, and notice what magic, synchronicities, or little graces that were offered to you as you worked.

Today's music is "I. Allegro non troppo" from Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 performed by the Czech National Symphony. Read more about them on our website: https://artistsforjoy.org/pod

In celebration of 2 years of podcasting, Merideth reflects on 3 things she's been learning from that practice. Listen to this if you're feeling stuck and need a little creative pep talk.

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1. Who are some of "the ones" you have created for in the past? Spend time being grateful for each of them.

2. Now flip it— think of someone you have been "the one" for. Spend time being grateful for those artists.

3. Jonathan Jones said "…art's story is not a trajectory of ascent, but more of a looping spiral, constantly retracing its steps." Look at your current artistic practice and consider the overlap you share with arts of other times and places.

How you answer this question may be the key overcoming feelings of discouragement or burn out. I don't know who needs to hear this, but this is for you.

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Reflection Questions:

1. What are some of the challenges that you face in your creative life? How is your current lens serving you?

2. How do want to show up to your creative life? Make a list of adjectives for how you'd like to be.

3. What do you believe to be true about creativity, and how is it springing you forward or holding you back?

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Have you ever considered the code of conduct that's in play in your creative life? Have you ever taken the time to name and claim the ways you want to be with yourself as you go about your creative life? Merideth shares a story of a coaching client's breakthrough that was contagious. Plus, learn more about how you can join like-minded artists in community to craft an Artist's Oath of your own.

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Reflection questions:

1. What are 5 things you love about yourself as a child?

2. What stories does your inner child believe about your creative life? (e.g. "I can't draw" or "if I do that, I'll fail.")

3. What would you say if you could have a conversation with your younger self? What advice would you give them? What might your inner child being saying to you today?

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The Inner Child is an artist. Merideth shares some truths she is learning about parenting and how it speaks deeply to that internal struggle toward healing and acceptance of our own inner artist child.

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