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New Certified Creativity Coach
One of the things I want to accomplish with this blog is to keep folks informed about creativity coaching news, including announcements about newly certified creativity coaches (who are certified by...
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Episode 2: Fearing Difficulty
In today’s episode on the Joy of Living Creatively, the second in a nine-part series on “creative obstacles,” I chat about how writers who take my nonfiction book proposal writing workshops start with...
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Episode 3: On Being Too Nice
Today’s episode is the third in our series about overcoming obstacles to creativity. In today’s show I focus on the problem of self-censorship and how too many people, wanting to be “nice,” fail to...
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Episode 4: Chasing Ghosts
This week’s show is the fourth in a series called “Overcoming Obstacles to Creating,” a series about how our personality can get in the way of our creating. Today, in a show adapted from an essay in...
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Episode 5: Responding Defensively
In the fifth episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we look at how our psychological defenses can get in the way of authentic creating. Why do we deny–to ourselves and to others–that we are...
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Episode 6: Minding Your Emotions
In the sixth episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we examine the idea that there is a difference between having emotions and being a slave to your emotions. It is necessary that a creative...
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Episode 7: Feeling Individual
In the seventh episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we look at the idea that a creative person’s sense of individuality is a special sort of challenge. Born individual into a conventional...
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Episode 8: Projects Morphing
In the eighth episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we examine the idea that the anxiety produced in us when our creative projects shift and change can cause us to flee the encounter. It is in...
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Episode 9: Blaming Others
In the ninth episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we look at the idea of how easy it is to blame others for our lack of creative output—and why we don’t want to do that. One of the ways that we...
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