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What to Do When Your Parents Don’t Support You Becoming an Artist

By Lucia — 2000

I was one year into my Biology degree when I realized my passion in life was art. However, I knew my parents wouldn’t approve of me being an artist. If you’re on the same boat, keep reading. Let’s go over what you can do when your parents don’t support you becoming an artist and how to turn things around.

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Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work

Are you ready to boost your personal productivity—minus the fear and loathing? Are you ready to Banish Your Inner Critic and unleash the creative ideas and personal productivity within you? Help is on the way! Blocked creative ideas.

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Denise Jacobs
2017
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Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished.

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Beth Pickens
2025
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Dancing with Your Muse: Inner Magic to Release Fear and Embrace Creativity

Have you ever had a dream, but let it go because you were too afraid of failure to try? Dancing with Your Muse is a heartfelt, motivational guide to understanding this fear, realising that you are not alone in it, and working past it to achieve your goals without inhibition.

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Gilda Joffe
2025
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CPTSD: Are You Triggered by Abandonment?

An intense reaction to the feeling of abandonment is one of the harshest and most common adult symptoms of Complex PTSD (or Childhood PTSD).

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2020
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Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren’t any people like that.

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David Bayles, Ted Orland
2001
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How to Be Creative: How an Artist Turns Pro

In this Essay I explore how you can break through your creative blocks and start creating your dream work.

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2017
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Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions.

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Felicia Day
2019
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic & Worry

Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, psychologist Catherine Pittman and author Elizabeth Karle offer a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research.

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Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle
2015
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Daring Greatly to Unlock Your Creativity with Brené Brown | Chase Jarvis Live | ChaseJarvis

Chase welcomes author, scholar, and public speaker Brene Brown to his Seattle studio to discuss how to cultivate creativity.

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Brené Brown
2014
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Julia Cameron: Creative Myths & Monsters

A special presentation of "Creative Myths & Monsters" by Julia Cameron, author of 'The Artist's Way,' at Wisdom House in Litchfield, Connecticut, on Saturday, January 24, 2009. The presentation marked the 15th Anniversary Retrospective Show No.

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Julia Cameron
2009
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