Jenny Hahn inspires readers to find their artistic journey with Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

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While the holiday season may be over, the opportunity for gift-giving to your loved ones isn’t. Local artist and author Jenny Hahn has recently completed her book Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence, a semi-interactive body of work that motivates readers along their own personal artistic journey. 

“The book is designed to offer tools and practices for anybody wanting to engage their own creativity,” says Hahn. “I’ve learned from over the years of working with others that we all are creative beings. We all have access to our innate, inherent creativity.” 

Hahn began working on the book during a creative rut in her life, struggling with mental health and an overall lack of enthusiasm in her current path of artistry. The book, in her opinion, was a solid foundation to leap off of to inspire not only herself but others as well. 

“For whatever reason, in our culture, we kind of put creativity in a box. And if you make art and you’re good at it, then you’re creative. And that’s wrong. We don’t have to make art to sell it. We can make it just to express ourselves. And that that is creativity. When we tap into that natural essence within us, that’s when we’re the most happy. That’s kind of the essence of the book,” says Hahn. 

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Influencing creativity takes much more than a book alone to drive this message home for Hahn and her business partner, Stephanie Gray, who opened Creative Nectar Studio. The focus is to connect anyone and everyone, “seeking a deeper connection to their true self via the creative process.” 

“The main purpose of Creative Nectar is to create that safe space for people to hone their creativity and to do it in the community. Because we can all be the lone artist or musician or whatnot, but it’s when we are together in community, where we feel that support from one another without critique or criticism, but actually being held and witnessed,” says Hahn.

One way they do so is through the multiple workshops they offer through Creative Nectar. Workshops that are aimed towards people who don’t consider themselves artists at all, similar to the book. 

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Through these workshops, Hahn hopes to influence the inner creative in everyone, regardless of artistic ability.

“A lot of people have art scars. Like when you’re in first grade, and the art teacher says that maybe you should try something different. Or when you’re in choir practice, and the choir teacher told you not to sing. That sort of thing really affects us, and so the people that come to me don’t necessarily identify as creative, but they know that inside they are,” says Hahn.

So if the inner creative in you is itching to get out, Hahn’s book might just be the start you need. Or reach out and sign up for one of Creative Nectar’s workshops.