About the session
In this session you'll learn:
- How the inner critic's obsession with failure keeps you stuck in creative blocks and what research reveals about the true relationship between mistakes and success. This understanding helps dissolve the paralyzing fear of "getting it wrong" that prevents many artists from creating freely.
- Why a creative life is inherently full of mistakes and how reframing failure as an essential prerequisite for success can transform your relationship with the creative process. This shift allows you to approach your art with more ease and less self-judgment.
- How poetry and visual art can work together as a spiritual practice to strengthen the part of you that knows it's okay to be imperfect. This integration creates lasting reminders that mirror back your capacity for self-kindness in the creative process.
- The power of drawing yourself with compassionate attention as a concrete way to practice self-love and dissolve the binary thinking that keeps you from accessing inspiration. This gentle, playful approach helps recovering perfectionists reconnect with their innate creativity.
Lea will guide you in a simple art journaling practice for creating a criticism-free zone on the page where you can experiment without pressure. This hands-on approach helps you embody self-compassion and build resilience when facing the intimidating blank page.
About the speaker
Lea is the founder of the Center for Creative Self-Compassion. She teaches art journaling and other heart-centered creative practices that help recovering perfectionists reconnect with their innate creativity and self-kindness. Her work supports those who feel blocked, burned out, or self-critical in approaching creativity with more ease and a sense of possibility. Lea invites play, experimentation and presence ~ offering a gentler, more nourishing way to create where there is zero pressure to get it right. She believes creativity can be a source of comfort and inner connection, especially when life feels uncertain or overwhelming. And that showing up imperfectly is perfect.
