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Many artists do not recognize the extent to which they are silenced, in their life and in their art, by the unconscious injunction not to make waves and by the corollary injunctions not to speak, not to have a point of view, not to have a voice, not to lead, not to...

This first appeared on Recovery.org: https://www.recovery.org/pro/articles/5-simple-tactics-for-creating-in-recovery/ 5 SIMPLE TACTICS FOR CREATING IN RECOVERY Many ghosts, demons, and new challenges confront a creative person when he first enters recovery. On top of...

Deadlines provoke anxiety! Learn from how working artists deal with the anxiety of deadlines. Jerry explained: The thing that works best for me is to have a written calendar that I can look at all at once with all the year’s deadlines written down.  If I need to...

If you’ve ever had problems with meaning, I recommend my new book to you that just came out this weekend! It’s called Life Purpose Boot Camp and it’s really worth your time and attention. Take a look here:...

Artists, like all human beings, have multiple life purposes and various ways of describing their purposes. Have you ever tried to articulate your life purposes? It’s an excellent and even a life-changing exercise to try to state your life purposes and to then go one...

Here is a nice opportunity for you to investigate your life purposes and bring them into your daily life in a more powerful way AND get some exposure in Professional Artist Magazine. I’m writing a piece for Professional Artist Magazine on life purpose icons, which are...

My new book Life Purpose Boot Camp comes out in about a month. Life Purpose Boot Camp is an 8-week program that does something really interesting. First, it explains the relationship between meaning and life purpose. Second, it describes a process for making strong...

Cezanne famously said, “With an apple I will astonish Paris!” What he meant was, “Using an ordinary apple as my starting point, a subject painted a million times before, I will make some new meaning because of my artistic vision, my facility with a brush, my personal...

In the wake of the suicide of Robin Williams the following is important to consider. Providers of mental health services tend not to take a client’s meaning needs and life purpose concerns into account. How often is a client asked, “Tell me a little bit about your...