6 Reasons to Do Personal Development Work When You’re a Creative

I've been thinking about how challenging it can be to do the deep personal development work of becoming Wildly Authentic, both in your creativity and in your life.

There are realizations to have about what is blocking you.

There's coming to an understanding of what behaviors don't serve the highest good of your life.

There's courageously seeking healing for creative wounds that keep you stuck.

There's a lot of letting go of old coping skills that used to keep you safe but now hold you back from taking the creative risks you need to take.

This type of personal development work can be challenging because it fundamentally changes your ideas of how life works, and believe me, this is no joke. It can be seriously hard work.

While you're in the thick of this, it can be possible to forget why you're doing it in the first place. Why continue? Why keep doing all this deep work?

This week, I pulled "The Ocean" card from The Wild Unknown Archetype deck, and it reminded of why. 

Here are 6 reasons why I keep going with my personal development work:

1. After all the deep work of shedding fears, releasing limiting beliefs, and healing old wounds the reward is getting to freely live in the ocean of creativity.

2. You get to sink into ideas, and then bring those ideas up like great waves, with nothing holding them back.

3. You get to swim in the waters of creativity, and create what you’ve been longing to create.

4. You get to feel the profound satisfaction of saying what you want to say how you want to say it, like whale song thrumming in the deep.

5. You get to tend to your creative projects with love, instead of feeling blocked or stuck, like the great ocean currents that move forward ceaselessly.

6. You get to feel the freedom of being exactly who you are, without apology, just as the ocean never apologies for it salty taste.

These are the gifts of doing the deep work. Wherever you are today, keep going. Each step you take in your personal development work is another step towards getting to live the creative life you long for, and it is so, so worth it. The reward awaits.