Mindset Insights: how mastering feedback for creatives can allow growth

From protecting your ego to serving your growth

Hello dear Muser

In my June live group coaching, I explored how transforming your relationship with feedback isn't about developing thicker skin – it's about understanding the psychology behind your reactions and choosing growth over protection. We also discussed how learning to navigate feedback in your creative work can revolutionise how you handle criticism and collaboration in all areas of life. It was a great lively discussion about how difficult feedback is and how to work our way through it.

Feedback for creatives can feel particularly intense – maybe triggering tightness in your chest, defensive thoughts, or memories of past praise or criticism that still linger. This newsletter explores this topic and provides some strategies to master feedback.

Your resilient feedback mindset emerges when you release the pressure to be "perfect" and instead focus on using feedback as information for growth.

Inside this newsletter, you'll discover what's really happening when feedback triggers you, what mental blocks keep us defensive, how to shift your mindset, and practical strategies to receive, process, and give feedback that actually helps.

This month, I cover:

• The art of giving feedback that encourages rather than destroys

• The hidden psychology of feedback resistance

• Five core mindset barriers (identity fusion, perfectionism, binary thinking, creative vulnerability, and past trauma)

• A new way forward: from protection to growth

• Four-step framework for navigating feedback strategically