You Don't Need Everyone to Understand Your Creative Journey

“Finding your creative community and creative family...”

Have you ever shared a creative dream with someone, only to have them respond with practical concerns or well-meaning doubts? It can feel so deflating - like watching a delicate spark of inspiration being extinguished before it has a chance to grow.

This is why finding your creative community and creative family matters so much.

I'm not talking about your biological family (though sometimes they're wonderfully supportive), but about those kindred spirits who light up when you share your creative dreams. The ones who respond with "tell me more" instead of "but how will you make money from that?"

These are the people who:

• Celebrate your tiny creative victories

• Listen with understanding to your creative struggles

• See possibility where others might see obstacles

• Hold space for both your doubts and your dreams

• Remember to ask about that project you mentioned months ago

In my upcoming book, I explore how transformative it can be when we find people who truly understand our creative journey. It's like finally being able to speak your native language after years of trying to translate everything you want to say.

One of the most beautiful things I witness in our Creative Hearts Community is how members find their creative family - often in unexpected ways. Someone shares a creative challenge they're facing, and suddenly five other people are nodding in recognition, offering gentle support because they've been there too.

Through our monthly calls and quarterly virtual retreats, I watch connections form and deepen as members:

• Share their creative processes openly

• Offer encouragement without judgment

• Celebrate each other's growth

• Navigate challenges together

• Create alongside one another

Here's a lovely thing to remember: You don't need everyone to understand your creative journey. You just need a few good souls who get it. Who see your creative dreams not as impractical fantasies but as vital expressions of who you are.

If you're longing for this kind of creative companionship, I'd love to invite you to join our Creative Hearts Community. Here, you'll find others who understand that creativity isn't a hobby to fit in around the edges of life - it's essential nourishment for the soul.

Join Our Creative Hearts Community

Until then, remember that somewhere, there are others who share your creative longings. Sometimes finding them is just a matter of being brave enough to say "this matters to me" and seeing who responds with recognition in their eyes.

Be kind to yourself and nurture your creativity,

With my warmest wishes,

~ Nicola

P.S. The doors to Creative Hearts are open now. Join us to discover how supported and understood your creative journey can feel.

Here's a photo I wanted to share... My husband and I finished putting up our new Colorbond fence around the garden. It's transformed how we feel in the space now. It's so private and lovely! Secluded...

This is how I start each day - with my pot(s) of tea and journals, watching the birds. It's my idea of heaven.

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About Nicola Newman

I'm a Creative Business Coach, Award-Winning Artist & Mentor for Creative Hearts who want to flourish, flow & prosper.

My passion is inspiring and supporting Creative Hearts to trust their inner wisdom and carve out a life that’s personally meaningful and fulfilling to them.

I share practical, evidence-based tools for Creative Hearts seeking to improve their lives or businesses. My work draws from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based techniques, body-based practices, and neuroscience -- and my own creative living adventures -- among other approaches.

My mission is to support Creative Hearts to:

Dissolve creative blocks, develop a loving relationship with themselves, nurture their creativity and reframe the beliefs and patterns that keep them from following their heart and making the creative contribution they would love to make in the world.

My approach is to embrace gentleness, playfulness and self-care to navigate self-doubt and instead cultivate deep self-trust so you can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together your body of work, make money doing what you love and leave a creative legacy you’re proud of.

Let’s pour a cuppa and get to know one another, shall we? :) Read more about my story here.