How to Build Trust with Yourself
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How to Build Trust with Yourself

In February of 2022 I decided to embark on a challenge - 365 days of art-making. The goal was to spend at least 15 intentional minutes per day in the creative process. I’m proud to say that I’ve made it to day 309. One of my main motivators for taking on this challenge: building self-trust.

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What if You Embraced Your Anxiety & What Happened When I Did
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What if You Embraced Your Anxiety & What Happened When I Did

What if you could embrace your anxiety instead of meeting it with resistance? What if instead of adding dread to the anxiety, you could add compassion? How would that change your mental state?

With rising anxiety and a strong desire to move into a more balanced mental state, I started asking myself these questions. I wasn’t sure if embracing my anxiety was the best choice, but I decided that I would experiment with this idea of embrace for a few weeks, and in this video I’ll share the ups and downs of what that looked like. I’ll also be turning an ugly, abandoned, and abused canvas into something beautiful, in the spirit of embracing the uncomfortable.

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