{"id":119055,"date":"2023-12-11T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=119055"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:33:51","slug":"lost-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/lost-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Recover Your Lost Creativity, Ideas, Desires, &amp; Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you have unfulfilled dreams? Did your creativity get squashed at some point?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julia Cameron says it&#8217;s not too late to reconnect to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-inner-artist\/\">inner artist<\/a> and find what&#8217;s been lost\u2014creativity, dreams, and desires. These elements are all still inside you somewhere, and she encourages you to go after them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn how to reconnect to your creativity and recover what&#8217;s been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This article is part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hub\/society-culture\/arts\/creativity-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shortform\u2019s guide to creativity<\/a>. If you like what you read here, there\u2019s plenty more to check out in the guide!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-uncover-the-lost-parts-of-your-inner-artist\">Uncover the Lost Parts of Your Inner Artist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron explains that many elements of your inner artist\u2014ideas, desires, dreams\u2014often get killed off by your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/overcoming-self-doubt\/\">self-doubt<\/a> and the doubts of friends, family, and society. However, <strong>these suppressed components are often the springboard for reaching your artistic destiny<\/strong>\u2014or, in other words, creating the art that you were destined to create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/big-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Big Magic<\/em><\/a>, Elizabeth Gilbert bases her arguments on the same premise as Cameron\u2014that there\u2019s a divine creative force flowing through all of us. And, to recover our lost creativity, we must learn how to access this force. Gilbert also emphasizes the importance of our ideas, dreams, and desires, and explains that these elements are important to achieving our artistic destiny because <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/big-magic\/chapter-1#creative-sorcery-communicates-through-ideas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they are how the divine creative force communicates with us<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reacquaint yourself with the lost parts of your inner artist, Cameron recommends first reflecting on your childhood dreams and desires. Then, reflect on any of your recent or current dreams, desires, or ideas that you\u2019ve convinced yourself not to explore\u2014for money reasons, time reasons, practicality reasons, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, maybe you were interested in video production as a child but didn\u2019t pursue it because you were told it doesn\u2019t make good money\u2014explore it now. Or, maybe you want to write a poetry book but think you\u2019re not good enough\u2014start now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>\u201cInner Child Work\u201d: A Pathway for Healing Trauma and Reaching Happiness<\/strong><br><br>Cameron\u2019s recommendations to find the lost parts of your inner artist, or \u201cinner child\u201d as she sometimes calls it, closely aligns with a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6268636\/inner-child-work-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular therapeutic phenomenon called \u201cinner child work.\u201d<\/a> However, whereas Cameron\u2019s recommendations primarily focus on uncovering <em>creative <\/em>elements of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-inner-child\/\">your inner child<\/a> that were repressed by negative experiences, the therapeutic process of inner child work focuses on uncovering negative and traumatic memories of events, thoughts, and emotions you experienced during childhood.<br><br>Psychologists explain that this process is important because our thought processes and decisions in adulthood are often the result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/remembering-repressed-memories\/\">repressed memories<\/a> and emotions from childhood. For example, you might be prone to believing you\u2019re unworthy because your parents never offered you praise as a child. This thought process might cause you to feel ashamed and never strive for your goals.<br><br>So, to foster positive thought processes and behaviors and ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/live-a-happy-life\/\">live a happy life<\/a>, it\u2019s important to identify and address the pain of your inner child. Performing inner child work will also likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-become-more-creative\/\">boost your creativity<\/a> because it fosters a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-have-a-positive-mindset\/\">positive mindset<\/a> and combats limiting beliefs\u2014two crucial components of Cameron\u2019s method for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-more-is-less\/\">maximizing<\/a> creativity.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have unfulfilled dreams? Did your creativity get squashed at some point? Julia Cameron says it&#8217;s not too late to reconnect to your inner artist and find what&#8217;s been lost\u2014creativity, dreams, and desires. These elements are all still inside you somewhere, and she encourages you to go after them. 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