What to Do when your Family Doesn’t Support your Creative Career

Warning - this article may contain spoilers from recent episodes
of the NBC TV drama "This is Us". It’s hard to start your career when your support is shaky.

A young girl has dreams of becoming a ballerina. She trains hard, makes it into a prestigious dance school, and makes all the sacrifices she can as she focuses on her goal of being a principal dancer one day.

Until her mother steps in.

In a climatic scene, the girl’s mother steps her daughter’s room. Music is playing, and the young gi...