An Anxious Creative

If your anxiety is mild to moderate it is possible that one of the following strategies (or a combination of them) can be sufficient to help manage your anxiety. Even if it is severe, it can be good to combine these strategies with your treatment and in fact they are often recommended by therapists to add some of these into your routine. Managing anxiety is also about your mindset, from the book by Russ Harris […]

Why is anxiety so difficult to talk about? Or read about? While researching and writing the anxiety series of articles, I’ve had to wrestle with my own anxiety and self-doubt. Who am I to be writing about all of this? How could I add value to what was already out there? I’m writing about an important subject, one that touches me and touches many people I care about. That is how I got through the […]

When we think of motivation, we think of the drive, the energy, the persistence to tackle a task and get it done. No matter what it is. Crafting, creating, going to the gym, and even cleaning your house all feel like they require motivation to do. But what if I told you, that was the wrong way to go about it? The writer or artist waiting for the muse to strike is the perfect example […]