Being creative through the fear and realize that your life is worth living with Leya Van Doren

Leya Van Doren is a creativity coach dedicated to helping artists & multi-passionate creatives navigate the waters of the creative process. She helps artists overcome their creative blocks, deal with self-doubt, fear, & imposter syndrome and helps them tap into the creative flow. 

As a multi-passionate creative herself, Leya's most recent creative projects include writing and performing her one woman show in New York City and self-publishing a book of poems, available on Amazon, titled "Mermaid Musings: stories of sea, sex, spirituality". 

In this episode:

• Working in an office for two years but trying to figure out what type of art she wanted to be in
• Her self-published a poetry book
• The Artist Way by Julia Cameron 
• The artists way lead to her creativity coaching 
• What she does for feeling resistance
• Tools – free writing, meditation, yoga 
• Listening to her body and what she needs to do
• Her creative coaching 
• How fear is just disguised as something else
• Have balance of working towards something and relaxing 
• Having that accountability for herself and for her clients
• Ways to make creativity part of your daily life
• Being hard on herself and how she gets out of that funk
• Talks about her one woman show 
• Shame, sex, and society 
• Feeling stuck after college, but realizing life is worth living! 
• Talks about her planned trip to India for a month for yoga teacher training and traveling for 6 weeks after

Resources

Website: www.the-modernmermaid.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_modernmermaid
Mermaid Musings: stories of sea, sex, spirituality: https://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Musings-stories-sea-spirituality/dp/172402860X  

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