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Apr 17, 2025 - 8 Helpful Ways to Overcome Creative Blocks When You’re Mentally Drained
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April 17, 2025
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Abundance is greeting you in all areas of life. your unwavering patience and persistence are finally paying off. Welcome your gifts with gratitude in your heart. Let there be no room... Continue Reading
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8 Helpful Ways to Overcome Creative Blocks When You’re Mentally Drained
Creative blocks. We’ve all been there—staring at a blank page, canvas, or screen, waiting for inspiration that refuses to hit.
While perhaps some of this has been solved by using AI, if we truly want to be original and creative, it has to come from our own minds. Plus, creativity is thought to reduce stress, boost mood, and even improve cognitive function.
So, how can you get yours back?
Creative blocks can feel like hitting a mental wall, especially when you’re already running on empty. Whether you’re a writer, designer, musician, or any type of creative person, these frustrating periods of stagnation can trigger self-doubt and anxiety…
Rising Like a Phoenix: From Burned Out to Reinvention
There’s something hauntingly beautiful about the myth of the Phoenix.
A majestic bird consumed by its own flames, burning to ash, only to rise again, brighter, stronger, and more powerful than before. It doesn’t just survive the fire. It becomes something new because of it.
That image has stayed with me ever since I hit my own burnout wall decades ago.
A Personal Story About Burnout
I was juggling two jobs, trying to finish grad school, and convincing myself I could get through a divorce with a smile on my face. One evening at my second job, I was helping a customer when, out of nowhere, tears started rolling down my face…
One Positive Action
Sometimes it’s okay to not be okay:
Admitting you’re not okay takes real courage. When we lose someone or something important, a person, a job, a dream, that ache isn’t a detour; it’s part of the journey. There’s this unspoken pressure to “keep it together,” as if grief were a problem to solve. But grief isn’t a checklist of stages you can rush through. It’s raw, unpredictable, and deeply personal.
All too often, we distract ourselves from the discomfort, scrolling our feeds, running errands, leaning on tired clichés that rush us toward “getting over it.” In doing so, we trade honest feeling for numbness. We rob ourselves of the basic gift of self-compassion: the chance to simply sit with our own pain, without demanding it change or end.
Giving yourself permission to not be okay is an act of radical kindness. It means letting the tears fall, feeling the hollowness, even when the world expects you to soldier on. Healing isn’t a straight line or a race to the finish. It’s a series of moments, sometimes heavy, sometimes lighter, where you show up for yourself, exactly as you are, without apology.
If you’re hurting, right now, find five quiet minutes. Sit with whatever you’re feeling, sadness, anger, emptiness. Say to yourself, “It’s okay not to be okay.” Notice how it feels to give yourself this permission. No to-do list, no timeline. Just the simple, brave act of being with your own heart.
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I am capable of challenging my limits. I choose to be true to myself no matter the circumstances. I am making choices that align with my… Continue Reading
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