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Cosette Grider
Sep 27, 20226 min read
How To Leverage Your Anxiety
Most of us are familiar with anxiety. Whether we medicate ourselves to stabilize and function or we find other means to cope, chances...
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Cosette Grider
Jul 21, 20224 min read
Sexy and Satisfied
Ideas can be spawned from other ideas. Actions can be inspired by ideas and ideas inspired by action. In my short career as an Artist, I...
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Cosette Grider
Jul 13, 20224 min read
Battling the Battle With "Wins"
Keeping my head above water has been the biggest challenge as of late. Not many are knocking on my door for commissions. Many website...
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Cosette Grider
Jun 9, 20225 min read
Alignment
Too often, we experience a state of imbalance. We may work hard on keeping our family and home life somewhat stable, but our bodies and...
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Cosette Grider
Jun 2, 20221 min read
Silence Feels Like Rejection
Brain vs. Heart Hunger ... while I sit here at the dining room table tapping these words on my keyboard, my mind is focused on the...
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Cosette Grider
May 19, 20224 min read
Art Nouveau On The Block
The cramps around the joints in my right hand suggest carpal tunnel syndrome. I know this dull ache all too well from my 9 to 5 days as a...
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Cosette Grider
May 12, 20224 min read
The Art of Detaching....(from your Art)
Between 2020 and present, I have created an impressive amount of Art. Mostly acrylic paintings, all hanging around the house, some...
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Cosette Grider
May 3, 20226 min read
Does Success Equal MONEY?
Is success a feeling or a fact? Who judges your success? Can Joy/Fun equal success? "Enough with the rhetorical questions, You", advises...
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Cosette Grider
Apr 21, 20224 min read
Hold On A Momentum
If you've ever been hopelessly stuck for weeks like I have, waiting for that source of inspiration or guidance, and you feel like it's...
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Cosette Grider
Apr 14, 20223 min read
Growth Cannot Be Rushed
Do you "Morning Journal"? You know, Artist and Writer of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron's number one must for all Creatives? Since...
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Cosette Grider
Sep 18, 20205 min read
Top Ten Things From The Last Two Months
Not kidding, I have 3 blog posts in "draft" mode from the last two months. For shame. Each very different from the other. Each with a...
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Cosette Grider
Jul 12, 20206 min read
A Full Time Artist
In 3 weeks, I will officially be my own Boss and SHIT. WILL. GET. REAL. I made the decision to leave my decent paying job long before the...
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Cosette Grider
Jun 23, 20204 min read
It's Been A Minute! part 2
If you read the previous blog post, "It's Been A Minute! part 1", I graciously thank you! GREEK FESTIVAL Sean, the client who...
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Cosette Grider
Jun 13, 20204 min read
It's Been A Minute! part 1
The longer we wait to do something that needs to get done, the grander the overwhelm. That's procrastination and we all face it. Most...
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Cosette Grider
Apr 26, 20205 min read
The Kobe Painting
How can I make these blog posts more dynamic like the paintings I execute? How do I attract readers? Do I need to put a jillion hashtags...
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Cosette Grider
Mar 30, 20204 min read
Old Normal vs. New Normal
Confession: Initial goal of blogging once a week had turned to once every two weeks, and now....more like once a month. The art of...
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Cosette Grider
Feb 23, 20206 min read
Paint or Die
Ok, I know that title is a bit dramatic, but bear with me. My weeknights and weekends have been looking more and more like this: Sweat...
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Cosette Grider
Feb 2, 20205 min read
Meditation and Creation
Meditation practice. Mindfulness. Gratitude. You can apply those things to your daily life and honestly see/feel such an amazing...
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Cosette Grider
Jan 22, 20204 min read
And Then There's Copyright Infringement
Pause. Thinking... Pause. More thinking.... I'm finding myself in a dichotomy of self compassion and self deprecation. Yesterday, from...
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Cosette Grider
Jan 4, 20206 min read
It's 2020 And Time to Believe In Yourself
Thank GOD the holidays over! Also....HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone enjoyed celebrating the welcome of a new decade exactly how they...
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