Making Art In The Middle of Madness: A Guide for Waking Up from Your Fear-Trance So You Can Create Like the World Needs You To . . . Because It Does

Are you feeling stuck in your attempts to make art or perform in these times of pandemic environmental and political madness? Does it seem like your life is on pause as you grieve a way of life that no longer exists and youre scrambling to find a path forward?I get it. This time sucks for you. . . but believe it or not your work is more important than ever.Performance Coach and Certified Hypnotherapist Holly Shaw who has mentored hundreds of artists and shared her work with thousands through her Amazon bestselling book The Creative Formula delivers groundbreaking and original insights into your fear your shadows and what makes you as an artist and performer a brilliant agent of change.In this book youll learn how to: Create a partnership with your fear and your shadow selves - the Outlaw the Rebel and the Fabulist - so they become an asset to your creativity instead of a detriment or a distraction.Re-direct your energy into creating connecting with your audience and becoming a powerful agent of change.Connect with your audience and create in the virtual world so you can finally show up fully to perform the work youre here on this planet to do whether youre connecting to one single person or a million.Avoid the mistakes that keep even famous people feeling too frozen and small to face the world.Use what you already know as an artist - about tension vulnerability creativity - to take on the unique challenges of our time and make art now.Discover the real meaning of stage fright and its uncanny parallel to trance states - and learn how that relates to your power as a performer creative and artist.This book is a call to all artists performers speakers and limelight seekers to wake up and chart a path forward not by running from or suppressing fear but by learning to work with it to create something new.In a clear effective way this book will uncover the systems that are running you how they operate and how you can dislodge yourself from the fear-trance in order to start using your energy to be a powerful force on stage in your content and online.What Readers Are Already Saying About this Book: A vital reminder and re-envisioning. . . a beautiful witty and relevant message for us right now.- Dan Cantrell Emmy award-winning composer accordion wizard and grower of high quality beardsHollys voice is clear and smart. This guide will change your life if you let it.- Amy Estes comedian humorist writer (Huffington Post)With both elegance and casual frankness Holly takes the reader-artist by the hand and shows us how to use our usual human cocktail of responses to what scares us -- fight flight + freeze -- to nourish our art-making rather than shunt it.- Kellita Maloof Conscious Burlesque Mentor and Author of How To Create A Burlesque Solo ... From The Inside OutIf youre a creative in the era of COVID this book is your vaccine and your survival guide.- Ron Roecker award-winning author and entertainment PR strategist to celebrities and artists from indies to icons