The Healthy Compulsive Project

Ep. 96: 4 Tools to Help Obsessives Move Past Creative Blocks


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Creativity may be one of the most fulfilling activities we have. Unless it’s blocked. Then the desire to be creative can feel like torture. But there are ways to get unblocked. In this episode we will talk about the possible benefit of compulsive urges, and the destructiveness of obsessive thinking. We’ll look at how the avoidance of feelings of anxiety and insecurity becomes a block. And we’ll look at the positive benefits of being in the present moment, and personifying The Blocker can be helpful. 

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The Healthy Compulsive ProjectBy Gary Trosclair

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