Building Unshakeable Self-Love, Trust & Confidence Through Creativity | Sam Horton

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We’re told to love ourselves, trust ourselves, and be confident, but HOW?  In this episode, Sam Horton explores how creativity can become your most powerful spiritual tool for building unshakeable self-love, deep trust, and authentic confidence, especially during life’s tough times.

3 Benefits of Listening:
✨ Discover how creativity can become a safe, nurturing practice for building self-trust.
✨ Learn why moving through the creative cycle helps you develop resilience and confidence.
✨ Explore simple, soulful ways to use creative expression as an act of self-love.

Key Takeaways:

• Creativity is self-love in action, a way of telling yourself you matter.
• Each creative session is a safe practice ground for building trust in your inner wisdom.
• Moving through the creative cycle, from blank canvas to messy middle to completion, strengthens resilience and confidence.
• Confidence doesn’t come from perfection, but from showing up as you are.
• Creative rituals can become anchors of safety, joy, and soul connection in uncertain times.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:52 Self-Love as a Creative Practice
• 3:31 Creativity Builds Self-Trust
• 5:42 Confidence Through Expression
• 7:30 Breaking the Myth of Perfection

Transcript

Copy of Ep 84: Building Unshakeable Self-Love, Trust & Confidence Through Creativity

[00:00:00]

So today I wanna talk about something we're all craving, deep down, unshakeable, self-love, trust, and confidence. We are told all the time. Love yourself, trust yourself. Believe in yourself. But no one really tells us how.

For me, creativity has been the most powerful path to building these qualities. Not because I was trying to make beautiful art, but because each act of creating became a mirror, a ritual, and a reminder of who I really am beneath all the noise. So if you've ever felt disconnected from yourself, if you've ever struggled with self-doubt or perfectionism, this episode is for you.

So let's start with self love. So often we think self-love means saying affirmations in the mirror or buying ourselves a treat. And yes, those can be beautiful, [00:01:00] but real self-love is about action. It's about how we show up for ourselves when no one else is watching. For me, creativity became an act of self-love.

During some of the tough times in my life, I reached for creativity and honestly, only because at times it was the only thing that actually made sense, even though I didn't really know it at the time, it wasn't. actually to make beautiful paintings or improve my skills that I kept showing up the call to creativity, was now that I look back on it, a way for me to simply reconnect to who I was beneath all that noise of life.

 Each brushstroke painting or page in my art journal was me saying to myself, you matter. Your voice matters. Your feelings matter. And that's what self-love is giving ourself permission to matter [00:02:00] because we are important and worthy and enough.

So I invite you to ask yourself. What's one small way you could show some love to yourself through creativity today? Maybe 10 minutes in an art journal, maybe some doodling at your desk, or maybe it's showing up for that creative date you long for, but never quite get around to.

The next piece is trust. We build trust with ourselves the same way we build trust with others. By listening and following through, every time you show up for a creative session, you are practicing trust. You're trusting the colors you reach for, trusting the words that want to spill out on the page.

Trusting that even if it doesn't make sense, it still has value [00:03:00] because it came from you and it was true for you in that moment. What creativity also offers us is safety, A safe place to practice listening to ourselves without judgment. A safe container where it doesn't matter if it's messy, unfinished, or imperfect, because the act of showing up is what counts.

And over time, these little acts add up. And in those tough moments when life feels uncertain, you can lean on that sense of safety and trust you've built through creativity. You can remind yourself that you've practiced listening to your inner wisdom again and again in simple, playful, and consistent ways, and it hasn't failed you yet.

So now I invite you to ask yourself. Where in your life could you practice trusting yourself more and [00:04:00] feeling safe in your own truth? Could creativity be a gentle, playful way to strengthen that muscle?

And then there's confidence. Confidence doesn't come from being flawless or perfect. It comes from proving to yourself that your voice is real worthy and enough exactly as it is. Every time you move through the cycles of creativity from a blank canvas to a finished painting, you are building confidence.

You're reminding yourself that you can face the unknown. Start fresh and take that first brave step. You can move through the messy middle, the part where things don't look the way you imagined, where doubt creeps in, where you're tempted to stop, but when you keep showing up anyway, you build resilience.

You teach yourself that you can stay present [00:05:00] even when it feels uncomfortable. And finally, when you add those last brush brush strokes, whether it's a painting, a piece of writing, or a creative ritual, you get to celebrate the whole journey. You see that you carried something from a seed to something complete and that you trusted yourself enough to keep going.

And this cycle is confidence training. It's not about the outcome. It's about proving to yourself again and again that you can begin, persist and bring something new to life. So I invite you to have a little pause and consider where in your life could you allow the messy middle instead of abandoning yourself there.

And how might finishing even imperfectly give you more confidence than waiting for it to be flawless or perfect.

And it's true that the most unshakeable confidence and love [00:06:00] grows when we show up messy, raw, and real. and creativity teaches this again and again. The page doesn't demand perfection. The canvas does not judge. It simply receives what we pour into it. And in that receiving, we learn that our truth is enough, we are enough.

And that's the gift, not the masterpiece, but the practice of being with ourselves as we are and following through. So if you've been longing to feel more love, more trust, and more confidence within yourself, let creativity be your bridge. Start small, 10 minutes a journal page, a splash of color, and these tiny rituals become seeds of transformation.

Until next time, remember, your soul is calling you home, and creativity is the path that will get you there. Take care.