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Befriending Your Creativity
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Jennifer Louden

Jennifer Louden is a best-selling author of five books, including her classic, The Woman's Comfort Book. She's also a creativity and life coach, creator of the Inner Organizer, and a columnist. She leads retreats on self-care and creativity around the country.  
By Jennifer Louden
Published on 09/9/2006
 
Do you secretly hold an “ascetic self-flagellant, it-must-be-hard-to-be-good, that’s for other people” attitude about your creativity? (Don't waste your time telling me you aren't creative -- life is the ultimate creative act and you are alive, or else you wouldn't be reading this). Self-care and creativity are best friends -- one cannot exist without the other.