Are you waiting to start that big creative project? Have you been thinking of starting a soulful business but just held back or got caught up in the swirl of distractions because you’re scared to start? Or maybe you’ve started and stopped so many times that you feel like you are caught in a never-ending loop.
This podcast will help you gently reframe and get moving again. Listen as Geneva and Kyla share their top tips for caring for the tender vulnerability when you’re scared to start.
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Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Energetic Eight Business Course and Coaching
Get inspired and start your work with the Energetic Eight Business Course, created to help you get through the vulnerability that naturally comes from doing something that really matters! This is where you’ll get more info on how to build a FEAR plan and many other goodies!
Geneva also provides one-on-one coaching to help you with your soulful business or creative project. Write that book you’ve always wanted to write. Get unstuck and start offering your healing sessions and classes. Book through our Jane app system right now!
Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
One of our favourite books! Brene Brown guides you through the research on the power of vulnerability and the power to truly be yourself. Check out this gem of a book: Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone.
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
Move beyond the critic in this inspiring book! Learn ways to understand vulnerability without it slowing down your work and your needed self-expression. Show up for your life with whole-heartedness and see what happens.
Read this book if you are fearful of what other people might say: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead
V is for Vulnerable by Seth Godin
This sweet book is an honest little picture book that can give you a little boost, no matter how much you feel you are stuck. Seth Godin matches kindness with a gentle nudge to help you get moving on your big ideas.
Check out V is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone: An ABC for Grownups
The Practice by Seth Godin
This book brings me to tears. It always helps to remind me to have hope and faith in myself and the power of taking action on the bigger dream. Showing up steadily for what really matters will absolutely create worth and value in the lives of the people your work reaches. It’s worth the vulnerable, scary bits to show up for others.
If this sounds like the support you need, read The Practice: Shipping Creative Work.
Reiki Sessions!
The gentleness of Reiki helps you move through that vulnerable space when you’re doing something new and important. Get energy and encouragement to take those baby steps forward on your dreams. Book a session in our Jane app.
Learn more about how Reiki works in this article: “What is involved for in-person Reiki Sessions?“
Find your Supporters!
Make a quick list of people who are encouraging, kind, and consistently offer you support and love. These are people you can reach out to to cheer you on and support that normal surge of nerves when you are doing something new and important. Call them up, take them for coffee, ask them directly for a boost.
I love having a bunch of diverse people, at least ten, to review and give feedback on my new work. This helps me improve the final product but also insulates me from one or two people who might not get what I’m doing. That way, I can focus on the average reaction rather than getting swept off course by the highs and lows.
Further Reading on Starting Even When You Are Scared
Here are a few titles that might spark something for you.
We Need Your Art by Amie McNee
Spend some quality time with your creative work and get solid tips and encouragement from this book: We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something. Amie McNee takes you firmly by the hand and shows you how much your work matters to us all. And it doesn’t have to be huge and world-shaking to matter. Just make stuff and share stuff!
The Art of Possibility by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander
This is an absolutely sweet book on how intensely creative people can rise through what is expected and genuinely express themselves in a way that inspires and connects. Essential reading if you are drawn to teach anything to anyone!
Read this lovely and encouraging book: The Art of Possibility: Transforming Personal and Professional Life
Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck
Okay, so this vulnerability stuff can quickly cascade into anxiety. If that’s the case for you, then absolutely, Beyond Anxiety is for you. It is one of the best books on anxiety and its antidote: curiosity, creativity, and purpose.
Check out this tremendous and life-changing book: Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose
Mindfulness by Ellen Langer
This book might seem out of place on this list, but it was the audiobook Geneva was reading while gardening, just before her first attempt at this podcast, when she got severe vertigo!
I’m not saying this book is so powerful that it will give you vertigo and a spiritual upgrade, but I’m not not saying that. Just saying…
Read read read this book: Mindfulness
Meditations to help get you started:
Try these meditations to help activate your energy and soften into a place where you can get past the stuckness and into the flow of your work ahead.
Creative Warm-up – You can let go and be yourself
Creative Warm-up – You completely trust yourself
Lightworker Activation Meditation
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