Safe Art or Engaged Art?

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...

5 Simple Tactics for Creating in Recovery

This first appeared on Recovery.org: 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 all the common challenges that any...

Handling Art Deadlines

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...

Art-Making as Meaning Opportunity

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: Here’s one idea from the book, the idea of meaning...

Artists on Purpose

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...