Creativity Coaching for Writers, Artists and Musicians

"I battled my inner critic for years, abandoning project after project, thinking I wasn't good enough to be a real writer. You helped me see that I had to write for myself first, to understand myself, to enjoy the process. Then, I could employ my inner critic later, as an editor. More than that, though, you helped me see that my critic was just a frightened middle schooler who needed to look good to the cool kids. That's really what set me free."

• Is your inner critic making it hard, even impossible to do your creative work?
• Do you have great ideas, but need help with follow through?
• Do you long to create, but feel like your ideas dry up when you sit down to work?
• Do you need someone to talk through your ideas with - no judgment - just a place to sort out the message /meaning you want to share?

I believe we are all driven to create, to make meaning of our lives and share our insights with others. Yet, we live in a culture where competition and criticism undermine that natural impulse. Worries about judgment and rejection get in the way of the real purpose of our artistic longing: to connect with others deeply and share our emotional experiences, to say to ourselves and others, you are not alone.

Even harder for many of us is the raw vulnerability of exposing our deepest selves in our work. Creating emotional resonance can mean excavating truths about ourselves and our lives that are hard to face. I suspect this is the real source of most creative blocks.

This is where a creativity coach can be incredibly valuable. It's important to have someone to go to when you feel stuck, someone who is not there to tell you what needs fixing, but instead to help you sit with the discomfort that enevitably arises when your work becomes a mirror of your life - a mirror that's hard to see.

I know what it's like. I've circled the truth in my own work, both needing to know and not wanting to know what my art is trying to tell me. And, when I can sit with that truth and express it to others, that's when the magic happens, the resonance, the power of hitting an emotional chord that the world needs to hear.

Please contact me for a free consultation if you'd like to learn more about how I can help you with:

• Support and encouragement
• Brainstorming
• Hypnosis and/or exercises to work around creative blocks
• Techniques to transform your inner critic into an ally
• Reframing skills to see rejection as an opportunity to learn, grow, and maybe find a better home for your work
• Getting comfortable with discomfort - so you can access your deepest truths