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[Please take a look at my latest book, Redesign Your Mind. It will serve your creative life beautifully!] We are a hard species to like. At the same time, some among us do beautiful work, smart work, compassionate work, life-affirming work, even breathtaking work....

I’ve been presenting a lot of webinars in support of my new book Redesign Your Mind. Folks are responding to many of the ideas in the book, but one has been standing out a little: how little grandeur there is in our lives and how much we need some. We tend to...

[Get your hands on my latest book Redesign Your Mind, a book that will really help you with your creative life.] Where we pay attention matters. This includes how we envision the future. If we envision a litany of future difficulties, that’s where our mind will be...

Please join me for a free REDESIGN YOUR MIND FOR CREATIVES webinar on Tuesday, October 19. Here is the place to register: https://iajw.org/redesign-your-mind-webinar-sign-up/  ** Three Tips for Parenting Your Children and Your Creativity By Erin Hallagan Clare I was...

[Please make sure to get your hands on my latest book, Redesign Your Mind, a book of real help to creatives. Take a look here!] The most usual presenting problem a client brings to a creativity coach is that he or she is not creating. The client is blocked, resistant,...

[Make sure to take a look at my latest book, Redesign Your Mind. It's of great value to visual artists!] Creative and performing artists are intimately involved in the process of analyzing culture, deconstructing cultural myths, and shining a bright light on cultural...

First, let me invite you to take a look at my latest book, Redesign Your Mind. I think it might serve you beautifully! Now, on to this week’s post. The majority of people who have suffered adverse childhood experiences, like bullying, physical violence, neglect,...

In this post, we continue our exploration of the cognitive technique of “redesigning your mind” as I describe in Redesign Your Mind. In my work as, first, a family therapist, and then as a creativity coach, I’ve paid a lot of attention to the cognitive behaviors and...

My new book Redesign Your Mind employs the metaphor of “the room that is your mind” or, more simply, your mindroom. That is such an interesting place, in part because it is the place where our human nature plays itself out. This “playing out” includes the amazing...

In my latest book Redesign Your Mind I explain how you can not only change what you think but how you think. You can do this simply and elegantly by visualizing the room that is your mind and by engaging in some redesigning and redecorating. You’ll find that this is...