Dancing With Your Muse: Inner magic to release fear and embrace creativity

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Have you ever had a dream, but let it go because you were too afraid of failure to try? Dancing with Your Muse is a heartfelt, motivational guide to understanding this fear, realising that you are not alone in it, and working past it to achieve your goals without inhibition. Fear of failure is a universal issue that can hold even the most talented of people back from reaching their full potential. Dancing with Your Muse is a series of thirty essays which speak about the common and debilitating anxieties encountered on the path to creative expression. Sections include: "Fear In All Its Glory" - explains patterns of fear, and shows you how to transform inhibitors into positive outcomes. "Judgement and Criticism" - provides guidance on how to keep yourself in balance without succumbing to outside perceptions of your worth. "Success in Different Guises" - expands your notion of success by giving you a more personal, expansive understanding of what accomplishment really means to you. Written in a gentle, contemplative tone, this book will encourage you to determine and strive for success on your own terms. Performers, business people, students, and everyday dreamers alike will learn to courageously choose the most direct pathways to creative success and, more importantly, personal fulfillment, holding only a desire to contribute fully to their own life.

Gilda Joffe, Julliard graduate, is an executive coach for women with a specialty in eliminating fears hindering development of business and creative potential. She has over 25 years of teaching and coaching experience, and is a certified HeartMath trainer for businesses and individuals.

"Dancing With Your Muse beautifully expresses the many fears that artists and professionals of all types experience concerning their own creativity. You will find the understanding and the answers you seek in this lovely and inspiring book!" -- Ia Gigoshvili, Distinguished International Georgian Ceramist, Painter and Sculptor "For the creative warriors of the world, Gilda Joffe's new book couldn't have come at a better time. With grace, wisdom, and heart, she reminds us that courage is not only the precursor to realizing one's artistic aspirations but also the difference between a life of magic or mediocrity. If you are tired of feeling like a wallflower, Dancing With Your Muse will not only get you on your feet but, in the end, teaches you how to fly." -- Michael J. Chase, Bestselling Author & Founder of The Kindness Center "This is far more than a book for performing artists. Dancing With Your Muse offers invaluable advice for keeping creativity alive and dealing with the inevitable changes and challenges that come with every profession." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author "Through her lens as a classical musician, Gilda Joffe empowers her readers with strategies to leave fear and doubt behind, helping them gain the skills and self-confidence to move toward their creative goals, whether in business or the arts." -- Jennifer Elowitch, Violinist / Founder and Artistic Director Emerita, Portland Chamber Music Festival (ME) and Director of Music, Walnut Hill School for the Arts (MA) "Dancing with Your Muse is a brilliantly written book about everyone's "elephant in the room" - FEAR: of risk, of success, and of living. Interwoven with relevant stories, the book swiftly changes one's mindset and perspective, to the point where the "why not try?" becomes imperative. Rich in expert advice, this is a must-read that will have a lasting impact on your life and career!!" -- Irina Muresanu, Internationally renowned violinist, Associate Professor, Violin and Chamber Music, University of Maryland, USA