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Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence
You are a creative being worthy of expression! Creative Flow is an award-winning 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", author Jenny Hahn provides a roadmap for moving through blocks, transcending fears, and releasing self-criticism in order to discover the joys of free-flowing creativity, vitality, and self-connection.
Soulfully written by a practicing artist and workshop facilitator who used process artmaking to heal from an eating disorder - and now guides others in reclaiming wholeness - Creative Flow delves far deeper than your average creativity book. This visually-stunning manifesto leads you on an inward journey of creative awakening, weaving real-life stories, dharma wisdom, writing prompts, mindfulness practices, somatic tools, shadow work inquiries, self-care tips and numerous activities with paint and basic art materials... all designed to help you open your heart, invite playful curiosity, reclaim your creative power, and feel the bliss of being fully alive. Tap and express your juicy essence!
Soulfully written by a practicing artist and workshop facilitator who used process artmaking to heal from an eating disorder - and now guides others in reclaiming wholeness - Creative Flow delves far deeper than your average creativity book. This visually-stunning manifesto leads you on an inward journey of creative awakening, weaving real-life stories, dharma wisdom, writing prompts, mindfulness practices, somatic tools, shadow work inquiries, self-care tips and numerous activities with paint and basic art materials... all designed to help you open your heart, invite playful curiosity, reclaim your creative power, and feel the bliss of being fully alive. Tap and express your juicy essence!
216 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2023
10 people want to read
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Jenny Hahn
3 books12 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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