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What I do when I’m creatively blocked
What is true? What do I need?
Happy Sunday, Soothers. Did you know I actually write the Sunday Soother on Mondays? I let the day itself pass and try to put myself in a Sunday state of mind at the start of the week when I’m writing the newsletter.
Normally, ideas and words come fast and furious to me when I’m writing. I keep an idea bank and, while I have many, many, MANY, maaaannnny issues in my life, generally, keeping the creative fire lit does not seem to be one of them. In fact, it’s almost the opposite, I feel like I’m a wide open firehose of creative universal energy and most times I’m actually working to stem the flow and wrangle it into something manageable, consumable, and enjoyable for me to produce.
Not today, though.
Today I am listless, I am melancholy, I am deep in the “womp womps,” and I am creatively tapped. This happens every once in a while and it’s totally normal and I never know exactly why it’s happening. Usually some factors are at play: my body is tired (I started working out again and also in a frenzy of trying to bask in as much sunshine on a beautiful spring day I managed to hike 20,000 steps yesterday); the weather is blah, and so am I (check, after beautiful spring weekend of sunshine joy it’s 40 degrees and raining on this Monday); I may be creatively engaged elsewhere, and…
