Creating Passion
Your creative spark doesn't have to stay gone for good. Hosted by indie author and creative coach Kristen Kieffer, Creating Passion is here to help you let go of the pressure to produce, perform, and impress in favor of fanning the flames of a creative life you (truly!) love.
The Ultimate Guide to the Tinkerer Creative Passion Profile
Is the Tinkerer archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Tinkerers can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.
The Ultimate Guide to the Eccentric Creative Passion Profile
Is the Eccentric archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Eccentrics can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.
[FREE SPIRIT] The Ultimate Guide to the Free Spirit Creative Passion Profile
Is the Free Spirit archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Free Spirits can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.<
[Benefactor] The Ultimate Guide to the Benefactor Creative Passion Profile
Is the Benefactor archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Benefactors can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.
[Expressionist] The Ultimate Guide to the Expressionist Creative Passion Profile
Is the Expressionist archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Expressionists can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.
[Alchemist] The Ultimate Guide to the Alchemist Creative Passion Profile
Is the Alchemist archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Alchemists can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.
How Your Creative Passion Profile Can Help You Rediscover Your Love for Creating
Creative passion isn’t one-size-fits-all. If you've fallen out of love with creating, you've likely been pressuring yourself to create in the 'right' ways rather than ways that are right for you. But who are you as an artist, exactly? Discovering your unique Creative Passion Profile will give you the roadmap you need to get back to making things your way — and help you fall head-over-heels back in love with your creativity!
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[Builder] The Ultimate Guide to the Builder Creative Passion Profile
Is the Builder archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Check out the ultimate guide to this archetype to discover how Builders can work with their unique gifts, challenges, and support strategies to fuel their creative passion!
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
Make more of the art you love with ease by discovering what fuels, frustrates, and flows from your unique creative passion. Take the quiz to discover your Creative Passion Profile today at https://www.kristenkieffer.co/quiz.
Creatively Frustrated? Your Motivation Orientation May Be to Blame
Not all creative motivation is made equal. If you struggle with perfectionism or procrastination, the trouble isn’t that you’re too lazy or unmotivated to create. It’s that you’re tapping into the wrong *kind* of motivation. Let’s take a closer look at the Motivation Continuum and what it can teach you about how to get back to feeling properly inspired and driven to create...
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[Escapist] The Ultimate Guide to the Escapist Creative Passion Profile
Is the Escapist archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Because every artist is unique, fueling your creative passion lies in partnering with your distinct gifts, challenges, and support strategies. Not sure what those are? This is where the Creative Passion Profiles system can help. Check out this ultimate guide to see if the Escapist archetype is part of your Passion Profile today!
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Three Science-Backed Keys to Leading a Passionate Creative Life
Believe it or not, there’s a science to creative passion. A science born of decades-long research, in fact. Curiously, that research reveals three core psychological needs that determine how passionate you feel about your art.
So whether you’re eager to rediscover your love for creating, feel a little more motivated to show up for your art, or achieve your life-long creative dreams, let’s look at the evidence-based keys to leading a passionate creative life.
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[Artisan] The Ultimate Guide to the Artisan Creative Passion Profile
Is the Artisan archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Because every artist is unique, fueling your creative passion lies in partnering with your distinct gifts, challenges, and support strategies. Not sure what those are? This is where the Creative Passion Profiles system can help. Check out this ultimate guide to see if the Artisan archetype is part of your Passion Profile today!
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How to Rekindle Your Creative Passion by Practicing Weekly Intentions & Reflections
Building a creative life you love can take time, experimentation, and care — but it doesn’t have to be complicated. Intentions & Reflections are a simple, two-step practice you can use each week to fuel your creative passion without wasting your time on pressurized productivity goals, optimization hacks, or pointless journal prompts. This empowering approach to setting and reflecting on simply weekly goals will help you better partner with yourself week after week so you can effectively and sustainably build the creative life of your dreams!
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[Rockstar] The Ultimate Guide to the Rockstar Creative Passion Profile
Is the Rockstar archetype part of your Creative Passion Profile? Because every artist is unique, fueling your creative passion lies in partnering with your distinct gifts, challenges, and support strategies. Not sure what those are? This is where the Creative Passion Profiles system can help. Check out this ultimate guide to see if the Rockstar archetype is part of your profile today!
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Creating in (Menstrual) Flow: How to Sync Your Creativity With Your Cycle
Your cycle unmistakably influences your capacity to create each month. Yet hustle culture teaches us to live and work linearly, with the expectation that we should be able to sustain the same output day after day. But what if the secret to prolific creativity wasn’t hustling for progress? In today’s episode, we're taking at look at your menstrual cycle and its potential impact on your creativity, including tips for better partnering with your cycle for a more passionate and sustainable creative practice.
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Six Ways I’ve Benefited from Practicing Weekly Creative Goals
What's your biggest creative win thus far this year? Bonus points if they're not about productivity or tangible achievement and instead a sign of how you've intrinsically grown as an artist. In today's episode, I'm sharing six of my own wins and how I cultivated them by practicing weekly creative goal-setting!
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A Gentle Guide to Healing Perfectionism in Your Creative Practice
Few frustrations can undermine your creative passion like perfectionism. Fortunately, perfectionism isn’t an inherent part of your creative character. It’s a mindset you can unlearn in favor of creating with far more ease and satisfaction. Let's talk about how to make it happen.
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The Only Mindset Reframe You Need to Fall Back in Love With Creating
Want to get back to creating in ways that feel good for you? Let’s explore the only mindset reframe you’ll need to make it happen…
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🤓 QUIZ: What's your Creative Passion Profile?
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The Real Reason You Fell Out of Love With Creating (There’s Only One!)
Once upon a time, creating came easy to you. In fact, you likely didn’t think much about motivation or resistance at all — that is, until you woke up one day to realize that you were slowly falling out of love with making art. What went wrong, exactly? Let's talk about it!
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How to Overcome Creative Resistance (Spoiler: You Shouldn’t!)
Why does it often feel so damn hard to create? Let’s dive into the details of what creative resistance is, why we're taught to push through it, and how pushing through is actually killing your desire to create.
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Nothing Will Ever Make You a Real Artist (And That’s a Good Thing!)
Struggle to think of yourself as a real artist? There’s a good chance your creative worth feels wrapped up in your accomplishments. But in truth, nothing can make you a real artist — and that’s a good thing! In fact, it might just be key to leading a deeply satisfying creative life.
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Belonging: How to Meet Your (Very Real) Need for Creative Support & Validation
There’s nothing wrong with craving creative support and validation. But if that’s true, why do so many artists struggle with imposter syndrome, feel ashamed for not having thicker skins, and pressure themselves to produce more, better, fast, now in pursuit of creative success?
Let’s explore the answer to this question, as well as six ways you can better meet your (very real!) need for creative belonging in today’s deep dive…
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Competence: 7 Easy Ways to Build Confidence in Your Creative Potential
You have what it takes to make the art you’d like to make. But first, you need to build confidence in your capacity to make it. This episode takes a deep dive into the core need at the heart of your creative confidence, including 7 keys ways you can better build it over time.
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Autonomy: The Most Important Key to Building a Creative Life You Love
Autonomy is the bedrock of satisfying creativity. If this core need isn’t threaded through every aspect of your creative life, from your big-picture ambitions to the projects you create and the processes you use to bring them to life, your love for creating will suffer. Let’s avoid that fate, shall we?
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