Creative Resilience

Burned out? Exhausted? Blocked? The creative process can be both exhilarating and exhausting, but this book offers real-life examples of how to manage that roller coaster. Artists face challenges—among them motivation, self-confidence, creative blocks, rejection, and simply balancing creative pursuits with the rest of life. Here is a guidebook for anyone navigating these challenges from those who have been there.

Creative Resilience offers practical solutions for creative issues from a range of creatives across different disciplines, ages, and career stages. Those creatives include dancers, musicians, writers, painters, and filmmakers. The author also draws on her own experiences and challenges as an artist and arts administrator, using a mix of humor, linguistic reframing, and reflective exercises to provide readers with ideas for successfully managing many of the challenges of the creative process and creative life.