Hello, hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast. My name is

Antrice Wood and I am the host of this podcast. If you are a longtime listener of the podcast,

welcome back. I'm so happy to have you here. And if you are new to the podcast,

welcome. The Savvy Painter Podcast is the place for artists who want practical technical

tips to create a meaningful art practice that is fulfilling and supports you. Not too long ago,

I sent an email to everybody who's on my list. If you're on my list, you probably got this email. And I offered some sessions with me to do some deep, deep work. I recently completed a very intensive program on coaching the unconscious mind and using hypnosis in order to make change in our art

practice and in our creativity. And so I got to work with some of the most amazing artists

who signed up for this. And it was an incredible, powerful experience experience and one of the things that i noticed as a

theme going around regardless of what artists wanted to work on was this question of does it matter

if i create my work is this really changing anything is Is this valuable? Should I continue to do this? And they knew

inherently that the answer was, yes, of course, I should continue to do this work. Yes, of course my work

matters. But logically, they knew that. But there was always this kind of like nagging doubt underneath

a lot of the things that they initially brought to me.

So sometimes people were wanting to work on their thoughts and ideas about pricing and

on talking about their work or on stopping the habit of overthinking or on creating a schedule

that fit into their life and that they didn't feel so guilty about. Whatever it was, underneath

it, there was a sense or this little bit of a fear that the work didn't matter. And that idea was impacting everything

else. So the idea that their work didn't matter was creating that space where they would be

overthinking or creating that space where when something else came up, they would

pause on their work in order to tend to

somebody else's needs or tend to something else that was going on, that in reality wasn't

that urgent or wasn't that important to them. And so I wanted to talk about that on today's

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