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

Through the power of creative journaling and mind-body practices, you will:

• Understand creativity in a whole new way
• Meet and get to know your specific inner critic(s)
• Change your relationship to your inner critic (fear and judgment)
• Learn practices to calm your anxiety
• Learn what creativity means to you
• Discover ways to harness your emotions in support of creativity

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mango
• Release date: Jun 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781642502527

Karen C.L. Anderson

Karen 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.

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Copyright © 2020 by Karen C.L. Anderson

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Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts & Practices for Disarming Your Inner Critic & Allowing Creativity to Flow

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2020933895

ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-251-0, (ebook) 978-1-64250-252-7

BISAC category code SEL009000, SELF-HELP / Creativity

Printed in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to your fear and your creativity.

Contents

444

Preface

Meet Your Inner Critic

Somatic Practice One

Cultivate Your Inner Advocate

Somatic Practice Two

Pop Quiz

Somatic Practice Three

Remember Your Creative Self

Somatic Practice Four

Inspire Yourself

Resources

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Thank You

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Preface

4

Do you have any interest in creating a journal on overcoming your Inner Critic? read the email from my editor.

Oh wow, I said to my husband. "I just got an email from my editor asking if I’d like to write about the Inner Critic. I can’t do that. That’s not my subject. They should ask