How to Cultivate Trust in Your Artistic Voice
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You have an inner critic blocking or interfering with your ability to fully trust in yourself and your art. That harshly critical internal voice thinks it’s doing you a favor. It thinks it’s protecting you. Yet, it says things to you that you wouldn’t dare say to a loved one or friend. So let’s take the microphone away from your inner critic and hand it to the higher self that’s been patiently waiting to speak through you. It’s time to trust in your creative process and yourself as an artist. In this episode of The Savvy Painter podcast, you’ll hear part two of this four-part live event series as I guide you on how to cultivate trust in your artistic voice. I’ll discuss the signs of trust or mistrust, give you the three steps to cultivating trust, and much more! 4:52 - The lesson that our inner critic can learn from The Stoics and their Memento Mori 9:22 - How to start to get more familiar and friendly with the voice of your higher self and build trust 13:45 - What it looks like when you don’t trust your voice and your process 17:54 - What it looks like when you do trust your own voice and process 23:30 - What trusting your voice means, how it (or the lack of it) might feel to you, and the first step to obtaining it 26:21 - Three starts to questions you can use to start enabling curiosity (step two) and the third step to cultivating trust 31:31 - What arrogance is and how it differs from your inner voice when analyzing your art 33:20 - The importance of seeing yourself as an amazing artist 38:41 - The power in always having full trust in yourself and the common thread that runs through all of your work Mentioned in How to Cultivate Trust in Your Artistic Voice Join Growth Studio)