Hi! Welcome back to another episode. It’s been a loooong while as usual! This episode is an anxious rant 😶 which turns into how I faced my anxiety & fear and created something, and that has never been easy for me. As long as I’ve known I’ve experienced anxiety. Debilitating, freezing anxiety. As a creative, in those moments I freeze, I stop creating, I hyper fixate and obsess, and I can’t stop thinking. But I’m trying something new now. I’m learning how to create, write, draw and work on anything when I’m right in the middle of an anxiety tornado storm. I’m challenging myself to face the fear, to draw even if it’s tiny strokes, to use my shaky voice to speak, to write even if it’s painfully slow and almost unintelligible. At first every part of my mind & body is screaming NO, until it starts to fade a little bit, as I try to notice instead of beat myself up and continue soldiering on. Slowly, and miraculously and wonderfully the spark of creating comes back, and there’s a bit more ease and calm, and the storm has passed over, and it feels like a blue sky day with a gentle breeze. 🌤 . I challenge you to try this too, you might surprise yourself, & if it’s really not happening then allow that too. It’s good to know it all takes time, but you’re getting there. ❤️ If you’re looking for creativity hacks, and wanting to dive deep into how to harness it, how to think differently and build a practice, look up Eric Maisel. He is a psychotherapist, creativity coach and author of like a gazillion books! He’s really helped me in the creativity domain. I mention him in this podcast.