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Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence
You are a creative being worthy of expression! Creative Flow is an inspirational guide inviting you home to yourself and your fullest potential. Whether you identify as an artist or "don't have a creative bone in your body", artist and author Jenny Hahn has created a roadmap for you to move through blocks, transcend fears, and release self-criticism in order to discover the joys of free-flowing creativity, vitality, and self-connection. Packed with vibrant visuals, real-life stories, pauses for reflection, writing prompts, mindfulness practices, and expressive activities using basic art materials, Creative Flow will inspire you to invite playful curiosity, reclaim inner wholeness, and feel the bliss of being fully alive. Tap and express your juicy essence! Praise for Creative "Creative Flow arrives at a crucial moment in our culture. Many people recognize the importance of their creativity in navigating life during a time of unprecedented and unpredictable change. However, we were often taught not to trust our creative instincts. Creativity is a mysterious combination of intuition, imagination, feeling, and inspired action that has the potential to transform your relationship with life itself. This book offers an invitation to explore processes that will bring you joy, boost your confidence in your own unique abilities, and motivate you to take bold creative leaps. If you feel the need to tap into your natural powers more fully, allow Jenny Hahn to guide you on a journey of self-discovery that can alter the course of your life."– Jacob Nordby, author of Blessed Are the A Manifesto for Creatives and The Creative How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life"Creative Flow invites us to inhabit every moment, and live from the fullness of love, curiosity, and aliveness. Merging mindfulness with the creative arts is a sacred pathway to healing and freedom."– Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold"Creative Flow offers its readers a colorful and convincing permission slip to follow their creative longings, but it doesn't stop there. This generous book also provides a treasure trove of practical guidance through poignant journal prompts, inspiring and inviting art practices, and the constant reminder that creativity is a portal for healing. Jenny Hahn weaves levity, approachability, and deep wisdom, and it's easy to imagine all the art-making and personal growth which will flow from it."– Flora Bowley, author of The Art of Aliveness and Brave Intuitive Painting"Jenny teaches with an authority that has been forged from the fire of her own experiences. Clear, practical– and at times poetic, this book shows you a process for creatively transforming your own life."– Robert Brumet, author of Finding Yourself in Transition and Living Originally
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2023
10 people want to read
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Jenny Hahn
1 book12 followersJenny Hahn is a visual artist, author and process art workshop facilitator who captures the inward journey through bold expression and a vibrant palette. Her acrylic paintings and fine art prints are collected around the world and licensed for inspirational products. Her debut book Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence is an inspirational guide leading readers home to their innate creativity. As a certified mindfulness teacher and co-founder of Creative Nectar Studio, Jenny offers workshops across the US using art-making as a tool for self-discovery. She cohosts the Creative Nectar podcast and is cocreator of the critically acclaimed Wisdom of the Shadow and Wisdom of the Divine Feminine oracle card decks.
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November 1, 2023
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
What an enchanting and helpful book!!
Although an incredibly easy read, you will want to take your time and really capture all the juicy, golden nuggets this book has to offer, and then read it over and over again!
This book has 8 gorgeously-designed chapters, and each chapter contains one step that teaches you one new way to explore yourself, your creativity, and your inner self more deeply. They start with Jenny’s personal and endearing anecdotes, and then move into guided teachings through instruction, reflection, writing prompts, mindfulness exercises, and creative expression practices. This book gets real, ya’ll!
The best part?! NO art experience is needed!! Finally a book about healing through art, without emphasis on becoming or being an artist. Sure, an artist would get great benefit, but so will the everyday person.
Jenny gets to the heart of what process art really is. The journey back to your true inner-self. She teaches you art of listening to yourself. The nature of just being. She explains that by just showing up to the canvas or paper, you can process what’s outwardly coming at you, or what’s quietly waiting below the surface. She gives you tools and techniques to let your feelings, thoughts and desires come to light.
There is NOTHING on the market like this. By learning to invite play and curiosity on my journey, I have awakened to the most whole and healed version of myself. Even my shadows had somewhere to go when I used these tools.
Thank you, Jenny, for your beautiful words of wisdom, encouragement and kindness that have given me a safe and prepared space to heal in the comfort of my own home. ❤️
What an enchanting and helpful book!!
Although an incredibly easy read, you will want to take your time and really capture all the juicy, golden nuggets this book has to offer, and then read it over and over again!
This book has 8 gorgeously-designed chapters, and each chapter contains one step that teaches you one new way to explore yourself, your creativity, and your inner self more deeply. They start with Jenny’s personal and endearing anecdotes, and then move into guided teachings through instruction, reflection, writing prompts, mindfulness exercises, and creative expression practices. This book gets real, ya’ll!
The best part?! NO art experience is needed!! Finally a book about healing through art, without emphasis on becoming or being an artist. Sure, an artist would get great benefit, but so will the everyday person.
Jenny gets to the heart of what process art really is. The journey back to your true inner-self. She teaches you art of listening to yourself. The nature of just being. She explains that by just showing up to the canvas or paper, you can process what’s outwardly coming at you, or what’s quietly waiting below the surface. She gives you tools and techniques to let your feelings, thoughts and desires come to light.
There is NOTHING on the market like this. By learning to invite play and curiosity on my journey, I have awakened to the most whole and healed version of myself. Even my shadows had somewhere to go when I used these tools.
Thank you, Jenny, for your beautiful words of wisdom, encouragement and kindness that have given me a safe and prepared space to heal in the comfort of my own home. ❤️
January 18, 2024
This is an outstanding art process guide, and beyond that a guide towards self discovery. I took one of Jenny's workshops several years ago. That event re-ignited my creative art self. Process art can be, at its core, extremely healing and freeing. Jenny outlines how to get started, some supplies, and gives excellent exercises. The hardest part is getting started and employing "beginner's mind". Included are many of Jenny's beautiful, and sometimes challenging paintings. And she describes her own journey towards healing through art.
The book is rather female centric, yet the lessons can be adapted and used by anyone serious about painting and creating. "Unity-speak", New Thought and Buddhist teachings are entwined in her chapters. Creative Flow is wonderfully organized and written clearly with summaries.
Much wisdom is here.
This book I will keep and refer to in the future. Just superb.
The book is rather female centric, yet the lessons can be adapted and used by anyone serious about painting and creating. "Unity-speak", New Thought and Buddhist teachings are entwined in her chapters. Creative Flow is wonderfully organized and written clearly with summaries.
Much wisdom is here.
This book I will keep and refer to in the future. Just superb.
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