Trust the Process: Develop Your Creative Voice and Build Creative Habits

Trust the Process

Develop Your Creative Voice and Build Creative Habits

Cherry Jeffs

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2021 by Cherry Jeffs 

All rights reserved

ISBN: 9781094431161

First e-book edition: December 2021

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Introduction

Welcome to Trust the Process: Develop Your Creative Voice and Build Creative Habits, a course from Scribd Coach. I’m Cherry Jeffs, an artist and creative coach. I’m so looking forward to getting to know you.

As a creative coach you might think that the biggest part of my job is giving advice about how to overcome the many different obstacles that present themselves during the creative process: creative blockages, how to network, how to promote your work, and the like. That’s a fair assumption. And, of course, it does constitute a large percentage of my day-to-day.

But would you believe me if I told you that the biggest obstacle that I work with people to overcome is a belief? And it’s a dishearteningly common belief.

And that’s the belief that, for one reason or another, my client isn’t even an artist to begin with. What an interesting thought.

Now, this belief comes up in a bunch of different ways, right? Some people will express it outright. But many of my clients do not even realize that they’re holding themselves back from achieving their true creative selves because of this belief. For some, it’s what prevents them from starting to begin with. Others might try, but give up quickly because their inner voice tells them it was a mistake. You’d be surprised to learn that even professional artists that I work with suffer this belief when they hold themselves to some perceived standard among their peers.

But what if I told you that being an artist has very little to do with who you are or the circumstances that you were