The House that Joy Built is about how to give ourselves permission to be creative. It explores two big forces: the fear that can block our creativity and the permission we can meet that fear with - to not just create but to revel in the life-changing wonder and joy of doing so. It offers a jump-start for the nervous heart of anyone whose desire to create is overruled by fear. It is a book for those people who yearn to write as well as people who find their creativity elsewhere: gardeners carpenters sculptors jewellery-makers florists songwriters dancers cooks painters... anyone who wants to make something but doesn't because they're afraid. Afraid of feeling vulnerable of criticism and judgement from others of not being good enough of not having enough of having 'bad' ideas of being too much. It is for everyone who has ever felt stuck creatively for those who don't know how to begin for those who feel they have so much welling up inside and are just trying to find a way into themselves. This book is an openhearted clarion call to experience the joy and freedom of creating.
