An Anxious Creative

As mentioned last week, to change our perceptions of pressure we first need to lower our stress response that is usually triggered by this pressure (see here if you missed it). This is very difficult to do because we essentially must learn to re-program our brains. To understand why we react to certain pressures and not others we have to understand what causes us to stress. Pressure is just another word for stress, and we […]

After learning to understand what stress is and how to deconstruct it (see here if you missed last week’s post) using the stressors N.U.T.S (Novelty, Uncertainty, Threat to the ego, Sense of loss of control). Now comes the time to reconstruct it in a way that we don’t avoid stress but manage it constructively. Research has shown that the opposite of stress is not actually relaxation, but rather resilience. Resilience is the healthy ability to […]

I started this blog three months ago. It is already my 15th post. Taking stock occasionally is a good practice to get into. Have I succeeded? Not yet. Not my ultimate goal of making a living with writing at least. However, I am consistent and have been posting once a week for the last 15 weeks. That is a win for me. Another win is the fact that by researching these articles I’m understanding a […]