How to Cultivate Creative Confidence As an Artist

As an artist, you might have been taught (implicitly or explicitly) that your work doesn’t matter. Many artists I’ve worked with have heard it in school, at home, and in the media.
Yet, your work as an artist does matter. It can help others feel, connect, and demonstrate the beauty of the world and the human experience. But only when you’re centered, present, and confident in your creative process do you allow that potential impact to flourish.
In this episode of The Savvy Painter podcast, you’ll hear the first part of a live event I gave a while back that covers what creative confidence is, what it looks like, where it comes from, and how to curate it for yourself. You’ll also hear coaching examples with a few attendees as I help them work through fears that have resulted in a lack of progress, self-sabotaging habits, and a feeling of invisibility.
4:58 - What creative confidence in your artistic abilities looks like
8:15 - The two types of confidence you can lean on as an artist and how they differ
13:51 - What usually stands in the way of creating what you want and how to overcome it
18:33 - How you can curate self-confidence and examples of thoughts that get in the way
23:19 - How Nancy’s thoughts have hindered her progress, the fears they’ve exposed, and their impact on her physically
36:08 - How Carol’s fear and familiar thoughts have led to habits of self-sabotage
42:59 - What happens in your brain when it offers you the worst-case scenario and more thoughts that can help you create self-confidence
46:22 - Why Ekaterina feels invisible despite creating all kinds of things and where to focus to begin to push past it
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