You're listening to the Savvy Painter podcast episode number 357. Savvy Painter is the podcast for

artists who want practical tactical tips to create a meaningful art practice that is both fulfilling

and supports you. Hello, my friends, it's Antriis and welcome to the Savvy Painter podcast.

If you are new here, so glad you found me.

And if you have been listening for a while, hi, thanks for listening again. Today I want to explore what it really means to have your own back. This came up in my journaling this morning and it's

also something that we're working on inside of growth

studio right now with our 30 day self-trust challenge. The more I've been writing about it,

the more I've been journaling about it, the more I realize how much of self-trust actually comes

down to creating safety for ourselves. And once we do that, it opens the door to everything

else. It opens the door to letting go in our studio, to stretching our creative abilities,

to growing our skills, and making space for new ideas and new creative projects to come in. So let's

start with what it even means to have my

own back. Like what does that actually mean? For me, having my own back means creating safety.

It's allowing myself to stretch without clipping my own wings, without censoring myself,

without cutting myself off from this

impulse that I have. It's honoring a commitment to striving for my higher self. And that means for me

showing up consistently, not in a perfectionist way, but in a way that says I am committed to being a better human being through this work

that I'm doing. So at its core, having my own back is about two things. It's about safety and growth.

I can stretch, but I will not cut myself down. So that's what we're going to talk about in this episode. And I want to

dig in a little bit right now to what that actually looks like in practice, especially when it

comes to making your art. On the canvas, having my own back means letting myself work out an

idea without letting fear of other people's

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