Building unshakeable trust in yourself is a gamechanger and it affects more than just your artwork. Learn why and how you can start building it today. Self-trust allows you to take risks, explore, and play in your painting without worrying about seeming scattered. You trust your creativity. With self-trust, you know you can choose one idea without fear of losing others. You feel calm and free while creating. Self-trust helps you feel calm and open when showing your work, talking about it, and discussing pricing. Without self-trust you doubt choices, compare yourself, second-guess, become stagnant, jump between projects, feel caged by past successes. Ways to build self-trust: recognize what you like/dislike, practice keeping tiny promises to yourself, have grace when you make mistakes, turn down the volume on your inner critic. Building self-trust is a practice - your brain has decades of lying to you that you can't be trusted. But you can rebuild trust in yourself.