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Gail McMeekin. The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women
Note to Readers
First Gateway. Engaging Your Creativity
SECRET 1. Acknowledging Your Creative Self
Responding to Creative Callings
Experimenting with New Processes
Seeking Success Stories
Learning the Secrets
SECRET 2. Honoring Your Inspirations
Cultivating Attractions
Practicing Play
Challenge: PERSONAL ATTRACTIONS
Communing with Your Senses and Nature
Taking Time to Capture Your Ideas
Creating a Sanctuary
Challenge: BUILD YOUR SANCTUARY
Inventing Creative Rituals
Challenge: CREATIVE STYLE INVENTORY
SECRET 3. Following Your Fascinations
Taking Courageous Risks
Challenge: YOUR RISK-TAKING HISTORY
Intuiting New Pathways
Challenge: INTUITIVE MESSAGES
Developing Staying Power
Challenge: COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR INNER PATRIARCH
Heeding Your Heart
Challenge: BOLSTERING YOUR STAYING POWER
SECRET 4. Surrendering to Creative Cycles
Learning Patience
Surviving the Void
Challenge: DEALING WITH THE VOID
Navigating in the Darkness
Challenge: PASSION AS AN ANTIDOTE TO FEAR
Watching for Clues
Trusting in Creative Reemergence
Challenge: FUELING YOUR CYCLES
Second Gateway. Mastering Your Challenges as a Creative Woman
SECRET 5. Committing to Self-Focus
Confronting Fears of Selfishness
Challenge: YOUR SELFISHNESS ISSUES
Putting Yourself on Top of the Priority List
Challenge: DISABLING DISTRACTIONS
Honoring Your Holistic Style
Setting Boundaries
Challenge: SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Creating Solitude
Supporting Self-Focus in Other Women
Challenge: RELEASING JUDGMENTS AND SUPPORTING OTHER WOMEN
SECRET 6. Conquering Saboteurs
Challenge: YOUR PERSONAL SABOTEURS
Valuing Your Natural Abilities
Faking It Until You Make It
Transcending Your Wounds
Challenge: HEALING OLD WOUNDS
Overcoming the Fear of Criticism
Dealing with the Fear of Too Much
Recognizing Real Saboteurs
Challenge: RETAINING YOUR CREATIVE POWER
Cultivating Self-Defense
Challenge: S ELF-PROTECTION
SECRET 7. Consulting with Guides
Reading about Inspiring Lives
Remembering Early Influences
Challenge: YOUR CREATIVE HERITAGE
Seeking Out Role Models and Advisors
Challenge: GUIDANCE LIFE REVIEW
Challenge: IDENTIFYING YOUR STYLISTIC NEEDS
Initiating or Joining a Group
Challenge: DESIGNING YOUR GUIDANCE OPTIONS
Guiding Others
SECRET 8. Selecting Empowering Partnerships and Alliances
Deciding Whether and How to Affiliate with Others
Assessing Your Collaborative Potential
Challenge: YOUR COLLABORATION PROFILE
Avoiding Disasters
Choosing the Right People
Building Your Team
Freeing Up Your Creative Energy
Partnering with Significant Others
Collaborating in the Future
SECRET 9. Transcending Rejections and Roadblocks
Challenge: ACCEPTANCE FANTASIES
Working Out Adversity
Challenge: COMMEMORATING YOUR WARRIOR VICTORIES
Developing Rejection Resilience
Challenge: YOUR REJECTION VULNERABILITY
Being Proactive
Dedicating Yourself to Excellence
Challenge: ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE
Conveying Strength Instead of Desperation
Challenge: ARE YOU DESPERATE?
Picking Yourself Up Again
Challenge: SECURING YOUR MISSING INGREDIENTS
Third Gateway. Actualizing Creative Results: The Power of Positive Priorities
SECRET 10. Living in Abundance with Positive Priorities
Defining Abundance
Challenge: YOUR PERSONAL ABUNDANCE
Tapping into the Power of Gratitude
Challenge: IDENTIFYING SCARCITY THINKING
Doing What You Love
Challenge: YOUR LIFE ENHANCERS
Caring for Your Body and Mind
Challenge: YOU AND YOUR BODY
Knowing What Supports and Detracts from Your Creativity
Identifying Your Personal Positive Priorities
Challenge: POSITIVE PRIORITIES VISUALIZATION
Challenge: POSITIVE PRIORITIES ROAD MAP
SECRET 11. Subtracting Serenity Stealers
Challenge: BODY SIGNALS
Watching for Signs of Burnout
Challenge: BURNOUT WARNING SIGNS
Challenge: LIFE CHANGE REVIEW
Assessing Your Relationship to the Creative Process
Challenge: UNDERSTANDING YOUR CREATIVE STYLE
Challenge: YOUR MAGIC WAND
Challenge: SUBTRACTING BELIEFS
Coping with Unavoidable Serenity Stealers
Examining Why You Can't Let Go of a Negative Choice
SECRET 12. Planning to Achieve Your Goals
Challenge: PERSONAL CREATIVITY CREED
Deciding about Sharing Your Creative Work
Challenge: YOUR SHARING GOALS
Setting Creative Goals
Committing Your Time
Tackling Procrastination
Celebrating Your Creative Power
Bibliography
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