You know that nagging feeling that you're not really as talented or successful as people think you are, and that you're just one step away from being exposed as a fraud? Well, that's imposter syndrome, and in this episode I'm excited to shed some light on this topic and help you manage it so you can flourish in your creative life. So, let's explore how to overcome imposter syndrome!

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN 

I am a business and life coach for creatives. My approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Visit my website: ⁠www.nicolanewman.com⁠ ⁠

Join my Creative Hearts Community: ⁠www.nicolanewman.com/community⁠

Join Dawn Gibson-Winder and Nicola Newman for a wonderful, inspiring conversation filled with practical tips to help us carve out ways to care for our nervous systems and listen to ourselves, so we can intentionally create a life that fits us and honours our personal needs.

A Journey from Chaos to Calm 

Dawn shares her personal story and tools she's found to help her find more calm in her busy creative life. "After healing from the effects of Burnout, I knew I would have to create a different kind of work-life balance that didn't leave me depleted, but one that fed my soul, fuelled my energy and uplifted my spirit.
I've learned I need to make sure I have balance in my work and personal life. I no longer feel the need to keep up with the fast-paced, hustle culture. I don't want to be constantly chasing and pushing myself to work harder."
About Dawn Gibson-Winder

Dawn is an experienced certified coach specialising in self-care. She has used her experience of recovering from Burnout to set up DawnedUpon, a Coaching and Mindful Lifestyle company. Dawn supports others who need to slow down and learn how to prioritise self-care, so they can break free of the fatigue and overwhelm of modern-day life. 

She is a qualified Yoga Nidra meditation facilitator and has created a series of simple guided meditations that offer a way to deeply relax and achieve inner balance.

Website: https://dawneduponcalm.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawneduponcalm

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN

As a business and life coach for creatives, my approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠ As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Website: https://www.nicolanewman.com

I wanted to share with you this meditation for Creative Hearts who want to feel in flow and connected to their creative expression. If you're looking to fully embrace your creativity and let go of any doubts or fears that may be holding you back, this practice is perfect for you.

In this meditation, you will imagine yourself standing beside a beautiful stream in a rainforest, and allow yourself to feel in flow and energised in a gentle way. You will also connect with your inner wisdom, your values, passions, and dreams, and embrace your creativity with love and compassion.

I invite you to find a comfortable seated position and allow yourself to fully immerse in this practice. You deserve to fully express yourself and connect with your inner strength. Trust in the unique and beautiful expression that emerges from within you.

Take care and enjoy the practice,

Nicola

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN

I am a business and life coach for creatives. My approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Visit my website: www.nicolanewman.com⁠

Join my Creative Hearts Community: www.nicolanewman.com/community

Nurturing your creative community and building connections with fellow creatives is so valuable, it can make your creative life more sustainable, enjoyable and fulfilling in so many ways. I'll be sharing examples from my own life and how important building a creative community has been in my own development, satisfaction, and fulfillment. I'll also share tips and ideas of strategies you can use to build a nurturing creative community for your own creative life.

Let's get started!

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN

I am a business and life coach for creatives. My approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Visit my website: www.nicolanewman.com⁠

Join my Creative Hearts Community: www.nicolanewman.com/community

This meditation is designed to help you identify and use the resources you already have within you to care for yourself when you need it most. By asking yourself five simple questions and reflecting on your physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual needs, you can cultivate a kinder, more nurturing relationship with yourself and trust in the unique and beautiful expression that emerges from within you.

I invite you to take a few moments to listen to this meditation and explore how it can support you in caring for yourself as a creative.

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN

I am a business and life coach for creatives. My approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Visit my website: https://www.nicolanewman.com⁠

Join my Creative Hearts Community: https://www.nicolanewman.com/community

"I’ve always been happiest in bright, colourful environments. From my childhood living on the fair, I was immersed in motion, sound, colour and energy. We travelled from place to place all summer and I know that’s where I get my free spirit from and why I love to roam. This unique upbringing has given me a style all of my own," shares Kelly Herrick.

"I am happiest outdoors, connecting to the natural world and seeing it through my paintbrush. I walk in my home county of Derbyshire and travel the country exploring our incredible landscapes and seascapes; you will see inspiration from all these places in my work. I find such joy in my art, it connects me to my flow and to nature in a way nothing else does. Painting allows me to dream a more positive and optimistic dream for the world, which is more important now than it has ever been. Beauty and connection breeds love and when we love something we treasure it and protect it."
You can see Kelly's paintings and learn more about her courses, workshops and retreats here: https://www.kellyherrick.com/

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN 

I am a business and life coach for creatives. My approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Visit my website: ⁠www.nicolanewman.com⁠ ⁠

Join my Creative Hearts Community: ⁠www.nicolanewman.com/community⁠

Whether you're an artist, writer, or entrepreneur, it's natural to encounter obstacles in your creative journey. In this episode, we'll explore gentle techniques for moving through these barriers and reigniting your creative spark. Drawing from my personal experiences and using a nurturing, mindful approach, we'll help you reconnect with your creativity.

Creative blocks can take many forms, including lack of inspiration, self-doubt, perfectionism, or burnout. It's helpful to recognize that creative blocks are a normal part of the creative process, and facing them doesn't make you any less of a Creative. The key is to approach these obstacles with gentleness, self-care, and mindfulness.

I’ve put together a list of ways to overcome creative blocks and I'm delighted to share them in this episode. Let's dive in!

CONNECT WITH NICOLA NEWMAN

I am a business and life coach for creatives. My approach combines self-care, playfulness, and mindfulness to support sensitive, values-driven creatives to navigate self-doubt and cultivate deep self-trust so they can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together their body of work, make money doing what they love and leave a creative legacy they’re proud of.⁠

As an award-winning artist and creative mentor, my free resources, online courses, coaching programs, and retreats support Creative Hearts to embrace their passions, prioritise their creative expression, and build loving relationships with themselves.

Visit my website: ⁠https://www.nicolanewman.com⁠⁠

Join my Creative Hearts Community: ⁠https://www.nicolanewman.com/community

For this episode I'm sharing a guest teacher session from Flourish: The Art of Creative Living, all about "Shaping Your Life Through Journalling & Self-Enquiry," with Vienda Maria.

This session is full of Vienda’s, and some of my own, personal stories and experiences with journaling, and how we have used it to process our emotions, listen to our intuition, clear creative and emotional blocks, implement boundaries that support us and shape a creative life that is always shifting, changing and growing.

This "Creative Convo" episode is perfect for you if you are looking for processes to explore in your journaling practice to help you listen to yourself, hear your own inner wisdom, process emotions and build a loving, compassionate relationship with yourself through your journalling practice.

I hope you love it!

Have you ever dreamed of hosting a solo exhibition of your creative work? Wondered what it takes, how to go about it and where to start?

Join artist Jennifer Carlson as she shares her experiences preparing for and hosting her first solo exhibition of paintings. Learn tips and strategies to manage your energy during the preparation stage, gather inspiration for a body of work, find a style that feels authentic and fulfilling for you, hang your show in the gallery, send out invitations and more.

This episode was a live event inside my Creative Hearts Community and I'm excited to share the recording with you here on the podcast. 

I hope enjoy the episode! Jennifer is so lovely, inspiring and dedicated to her creative life. I think you'll find it very informative and inspiring! 

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As you move through this journey of exploring your creativity and finding what's possible for your creative life, remember to tune into your heart and do what is authentic to you.

Not to impress anyone else. Being authentic to you, is about allowing yourself to follow your curiosities and investigate what lights you up.

That is what will sustain you in your creative life. Not trying to win the approval of others. Now, I know following your heart and your curiosities can feel uncomfortable because we may have become so accustomed to doing things for everybody else. Unfortunately, if something feels too enjoyable or fun, we can view it as frivolous or even worse selfish.

In this episode, we explore how being true and authentic to ourselves is where true fulfillment lies. And how we can cultivate a sustainable creative practice. By nestling in close to our own hearts, listening to ourselves, trusting our intuition and doing what we love, we find an endless well of inspiration and momentum for our creative lives. 

If you are feeling inspired to deepen your own relationship to creative living, including nurturing your creative expression and being kind to yourself, you can receive direct support, guidance and tools from me inside Flourish: The Art of Creative Living.

It's a program that weaves together supportive practices for creative hearts from all walks of life - whether you're an aspiring creative, a creative professional, or a creative entrepreneur - into one complete tapestry. Along the way, you'll meet an incredible, encouraging community of fellow Creative Hearts, who you can both receive support from and offer support to in return while you explore painting, journaling, photography, writing, mindfulness, and other creative practices to help your craft a life that is deeply fulfilling, meaningful, and true to you.

Registration for Flourish: The art of creative living is now open. You can find out more about it at http://www.nicolanewman.com/flourish. You're also invited to receive my free seven-day Art of Creative Living introductory course, which is a wonderful overview of my approach and gives you tools and practices you can implement right away, giving you a taste of what you'll experience inside the full program. You can find that free mini-course here https://www.nicolanewman.com/flourishwithpainting

I hope you enjoy this episode!

With my warmest wishes, 

Nicola