My Struggles as a Creative and what I’m doing to combat these struggles

I’ve been blessed to be a creative human just about all my life. If I wasn’t drawing or painting, I was writing poetry or stories, and if I wasn’t doing either of those, I was singing my heart out and playing music. But with this lifetime of creative energy that I was exuding out into the world, it also brought in a lot of unwanted energy that I have had to deal with for a lifetime. This blog post is going to touch on my top three struggles as a creative and how I fight those struggles, so buckle up for a very insightful read.

My First struggle as a creative is self-doubt. Doubt is something I think every human anywhere has dealt with at one point or another (if you are by chance the lucky one who hasn’t…. how?). Self-doubt has frozen my creative process on more than one occasion, and I had gotten to the point where I wasn’t making anything at all because of it. So, how do I deal with it now? My walk as a Christian has helped me shift a lot of my thinking, especially in the realm of self-doubt.

Through practices of self-awareness and lots of prayer, the Lord helped me realize my problem wasn’t the doubt. This leads me into my second struggle, which is fear. Fear and self-doubt used to run through my mind and my heart like besties bringing the coldest winter with them and freezing me in place. Then enters the last struggle, and sometimes the biggest anxiety. These three fears, self-doubt, and anxiety run rampant in my heart and wreak havoc on my mind and making me unable and unwilling to create or make anything for so long, even to the point where I would even deny being a Creative in the first place.

But then God. When I stopped creating for myself and began giving my creative process to God, it changed how I created and how I saw my art. This shift unlocked a new way for me to process art and make things. When we create with God and for God, it not only shows in our Art, but it also shows in how we create our art as well.

So, I’m going to leave with three things I started doing to change my life as a Creative, but most importantly as a believer and follower of Jesus. First thing I did was get in my word more so I could know God’s truths and promises to me. Next thing I did was get serious about my quiet time with God and be okay with when they looked different that I may have wanted or planned, the most important thing about spending time with God is about being real and true with him wherever and whenever do make it another thing to do or ritual in the morning to check off. Make it a relationship that you can't go without having daily. The last thing is to get plugged in at your church and start interacting with other believers. Not only does this build genuine friendships and family outside of blood family, but it also gets you used to sharing and talking about the gift God has given you and using it to build his kingdom.

Thank you so much for reading this far. I hope you enjoyed it!