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...
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...
