Creative Resilience: Reclaiming Your Power as an Artist

By Erica Ginsberg

The roller coaster of the creative process can be both exhilarating and exhausting, but it is a lot more manageable when you know you are not alone.

Whether a paid profession, a side hustle, or a leisure activity, creative pursuits can bring joy and meaning to the lives of artists and audiences. They also bring with them a host of challenges for creators – of motivation, confidence, blocks, and the realities of rejection. Creative Resilience provides guidance for anyone navigating these challenges from those who have been there.

The book includes relatable real-world examples from creatives across a number of different disciplines, ages, and stages of their careers, including dancers, musicians, writers, painters, and filmmakers who were interviewed specifically for the book. The author also draws on her own experiences and challenges as an artist and arts administrator, and uses a mix of humor, linguistic reframing, and reflective exercises to provide readers a jumping-off point to cover many challenges of the creative process and creative life.