Are You Chasing What You Want, Or Are You Creating Your Life?
Are you chasing your needs and desires, or are you creating your life? What’s the difference? In this post, we’ll explore how chasing your goals is different from investing yourself toward creating the life of your dreams. First, I invite you to recall moments when...
How EMDR Psychotherapy Can Help You Show Up for Your Creative Work
As a creative, you want to show up in the world and to share your creativity. You’re driven to connect and make meaning through your craft, art, or performance. But, you may find yourself avoiding your work and feel unable to “show up” fully. You daydream and get lost...
Healing Performance Anxiety or Stage Fright with EMDR
As a performer, actor, musician, dancer, comedian, or speaker, you know what it feels like to get on stage or in front of the camera grounded in all who you are. Your talents, skills, and passions flow together effortlessly. In that space, you feel at ease, and your...
Why Do My Emotions Interfere With My Creativity?
As a creative, you use your emotions to tell compelling stories. When your art is born from a genuine emotional expression, you offer your audience a glimpse of the unique you - your interpretation and manifestation of human experiences. There’s something about...
What Are “Avoidant Attachment Wounds” and Could They Be Holding You Back?
When you grow up in an environment that’s full of authentic love, often called “emotional attunement” in the world of psychology, it sets you on a path of lifetime of real, intimate connection to yourself and others. If, thanks to a supportive childhood, you...
What Are “ Anxious Attachment Wounds” and Could They Be Holding You Back?
When you grow up in an environment full of love and connection, it sets you up for a lifetime of healthy, nurturing relationships. In a previous blog post, “Healing Attachment Wounds With Psychotherapy For A More Fulfilling Life,” we explored how your early relational...
Healing Attachment Wounds With Psychotherapy For A More Fulfilling Life
The concept of “attachment style” is everywhere nowadays. It seems to be flooding the internet and you’ll see references to attachment style across social media, YouTube, relationships coaching programs, and more. So, what's the big hype about the attachment style and...
Why Is It Important to Be Emotionally Attuned to Yourself?
You probably remember moments when you have felt deeply connected to yourself and with who you are. You’ve been able to open your heart and “feel your feelings.” You’ve felt fully present, creative, and inspired. You’ve had these experiences, you know what it’s like...
Create Your Life in 2022
As 2022 is settling in, how are you feeling? Do you have a sense of enthusiasm about your hopes, plans, and visions for the new year? The new rush of emotional energy that came in with the new year likely gave you a boost of hope and inspiration. Beginnings feel fresh...
The Emotional Risks of Becoming a Character: How To Recover the Self After an Intense Role
As an actor, you embody a character to tell a story. Through that story, you connect to your audience by mirroring the fears, needs, disappointments, hopes, or dreams that everyone has experienced in some way. Acting is a powerful art that can change lives and can...
When Your Emotions Cloud Your Creativity
As a creative, you are happiest when you live in the full depth of your emotional experiences. You wish to be intimately connected to your emotions because you know they spark and fuel your creativity. Emotions - love, joy, desire, anger, sadness, fear, rejection,...
How Anger Can Enhance Creativity
A lot has happened in the last couple of years. We’re watching the world go through a huge transition. We must keep shifting and adapting to these changes, and that can trigger our emotions in many ways. Times like this can make us feel raw and vulnerable. Unresolved...
How Trauma Affects Creativity
Creativity is a vital life force energy. We connect with that energy within us and use it to express art that comes from the deepest parts of the self. Creativity feeds off of other vital energies that exist inside of us, including imagination, courage, authenticity,...
Anxiety Happens When You Have No Outlet For Your Creativity
We’ve been through almost two long years of disruption. It’s been challenging for everyone, but it is particularly unsettling for creatives and performers. As you well know, navigating a creative career was tough enough before 2020. How do you do it now with all the...
