7 Signs Emotional Trauma is Affecting Your Creativity
You know what it’s like when your emotions and your creativity feel like they’re completely synchronized. Your inspiration is in harmony with your talents and skills, your heart, and your sense of identity and agency. In these moments, your imagination flows and...
Facing Yourself and Your Feelings to Connect With Your Creativity
No one knows better than you, the creative, what it takes to show up and invest yourself in creating a career of purpose and meaning. You are passionate and know you are on a mission to bring value to the world through your craft. You’re determined to turn your vision...
The Artist’s Path to Creating During Stressful, Challenging Times
If you are an artistic professional or someone who relies on your creativity for your livelihood, you know what it takes to face a big unknown and uncertainty - you have forged a career--or hope to--that is as much about competition and rejection as it is about...
How to Maintain Your Creativity and Resilience Through Cycles of Disruption
Uncertainty is part of life. We always have to grapple with the unknown. And yes, in the early spring of 2020, the uncertainty and the unknown took a new dimension that we’ve never faced before. We had no idea what lay ahead of us as individuals, as creatives, and as...
The Shadow of Perfectionism Doesn’t Need to Diminish You or Your Art
As a creative being, you’re familiar with perfectionism. Many times you find yourself driven to create something perfect. However, in reality, it steals away your joy, inspiration, and creativity. This shadow side of your artistic life can be challenging and damaging...
How Depression is Tied to Unresolved Inner Conflicts
When it comes to conflict, we usually think of issues that arise with other people. Yet, what if the conflict that causes you the most suffering is your own internal conflicts? What happens when you struggle to make peace within yourself? Your own turmoil and...
Afraid of Abandonment? How EMDR can Ease Your Fear
As human beings, we have an emotional need to be seen, heard, connected. When those needs aren’t met or are neglected, you can experience a fear of abandonment. Many times, this fear stems from childhood. If your needs weren’t met as a child by your parents or those...
Is Anxiety Impacting Your Relationships? How Psychotherapy can Help
You long to feel emotionally connected, to have fulfilling relationships and a rich social life. To laugh and share stories with others. To talk about your life adventures, hopes, dreams, or fears. You wish others to feel inspired by your presence and open themselves...
The Artist’s Dilemma: How To Stay True to Your Art and Connect with Your Audience
Your creativity is deeply personal. It springs from your most private, intimate experiences. So, it’s no surprise that your creative expression is a reflection of the deepest parts of your being. It’s the birth place of your art, performance, writing, or other...
How to Hold On to Your Self-Worth in a Competitive World
A healthy connection to your self-worth, your sense of your own inherent value, is essential to your happiness and well-being. This is true for all people, and it is particularly true for artists, performers, and those who know they possess a “creative mind.” As a...
Don’t Let Depression Destroy Your Relationships, Psychotherapy Can Help.
What is one of the darkest sides of depression? It wears out your relationships. The lack of vitality that comes with depression can drain you in ways that your partner, family, or friends may not be able to grasp. Depression can disconnect you from your feelings,...
How EMDR Can Help you Heal Low Self-Esteem
Have you struggled a long time with low self-esteem? Are your feelings the result of poor treatment as a child or has something more recent left you questioning your worth? The external pressure to be more and do more can wear down anyone’s self-esteem. Especially if...
Psychotherapy: A Powerful Approach to Treat Depression from Inside Out
On the outside, you seem to have it all, but deep down you've been battling with depression for quite some time. Maybe you’re facing pressure from outside to look like you have it all together - to appear “perfect” for those who rely on you or those who have been...
Psychotherapy: A Powerful Way of Healing Anxiety from Inside Out
A part of you wished you were more successful in your career, your relationships were more fulfilling, maybe live a fuller and more meaningful life. But, something is holding you back to really investing yourself in your life, career, or relationships... Much of what...
