Creativity heals. If someone, including yourself, has made you feel bad about your work, the best solution? Create something. Doesn't have to be a masterpiece. In fact, it could be in a medium you have never tried before. If you are a writer, jump some rope. If you are a singer, pump some iron. If you are a golfer, write a poem. Be a novice again, and remember how it feels to be really really not that great at something...before you know enough to get discouraged. When it is still okay to not be okay. Listen to your heart get excited, frustrated, joyful at your new discovery. Re-experience your inner toddler's first step, before you knew that with the first step comes a whole future full of stumbles. You are a beautiful and precious treasure, and so is your art. If the wrong people are not appreciating you, that's okay. YOU appreciate you, don't you? Well, don't you?
And this is my daughter, Charlotte, in her Halloween costume from two years ago. If you come back to my blog you can check her out for real. and you can check out her blog,
ablondeinthailand@blogspot.com. She inspires me. After all, she and her brother are the best things our Creator ever made through me.
Creativity heals. If someone, including yourself, has made you feel bad about your work, the best solution? Create something. Doesn't have to be a masterpiece. In fact, it could be in a medium you have never tried before. If you are a writer, jump some rope. If you are a singer, pump some iron. If you are a golfer, write a poem. Be a novice again, and remember how it feels to be really really not that great at something...before you know enough to get discouraged. When it is still okay to not be okay. Listen to your heart get excited, frustrated, joyful at your new discovery. Re-experience your inner toddler's first step, before you knew that with the first step comes a whole future full of stumbles. You are a beautiful and precious treasure, and so is your art. If the wrong people are not appreciating you, that's okay. YOU appreciate you, don't you? Well, don't you?
And this is my daughter, Charlotte, in her Halloween costume from two years ago. If you come back to my blog you can check her out for real. and you can check out her blog, ablondeinthailand@blogspot.com. She inspires me. After all, she and her brother are the best things our Creator ever made through me.
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