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Burnout Recovery & Creative Energy - Overthinking and Underbellies
When we are stuck creatively, becoming more depressed, or even already in a burned out state, we tend to overthink. The trick to getting...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 8 - Time & Treatment
So, there is no cure for burnout. Why? Because you are not sick, nor broken. You feel terrible yes. But you don't have a disease. You...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 7 - The Martial Arts
Of course, I make a point in the book of saying your recovery should be highly personal. So I don’t know if this will work for you… but...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 6 - Signals of your body
Very often burnout victims have not paid attention to the signals their body gave them. Heck, I even ignored an episode when I landed in...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 5 - Your Creative Relationships
A special mention in your personal road to recovery is friends and family. They are the ones who stand by you in your time of need....

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 4 - The Help Team
A lot of the reactions I get are from the people who support burnout victims, help people with creative anxieties or step up to the plate...

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Interview on the book Restart
Thank you so much for the fantastic interview by Watersedge Counseling on Restart - Burnout Recovery. It is an honor to tell the story...

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Social Media as Online Public Space
Should social media companies edit content? Some say no and cite freedom of speech. Others say yes and cite hate speech. What is the way...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 3 - Positive About Negative Feelings
What we wish for when we are in a negative emotional state is to come out of it. Yet, it's a cycle: the more we want to be out of the...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 2 - Why the Way Out is the Same For All
The tendency of psychologists and psychiatrists is to focus deeply on the cause of your burnout, depression, grief, and mental breakdown...

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Restart Story - Burnout Solution 1 - The Walk
There are plenty of causes to burnout and you will have to give a lot of attention to all of them. But if there is anything that my...

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The Devil and The Deity (Short Story)
“Good morning,” said God. “Hey, good morning,” said The Devil, refilling the coffee machine with water. “Coffee?” “Yeah, thanks,” The...

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Why Women Love Warriors (Society & Love Story)
Once, I had a Swedish girlfriend. She was, and still is fantastic. So, on my first Saturday night out in Stockholm and I was going to...

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Why are people rising up?
Society is a contract. The contract states that we live and let live, through equality and freedom, whatever your view of life. This...

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Creative Anxiety Relief
For those of us in a creative job (and who isn't these days) anxiety is part of the work. Creative expression always comes with...

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On Art, Telepathy and Storytelling
A few years back I was at this art exhibition that had attracted hundreds of people. The main artwork was a big block of simple perplex...

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Storytelling is... (14 laws of storytelling)
Storytelling is always about the journey, never about the destination Storytelling is about embracing friction, not avoiding it...

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Quick Storytelling Lesson: Vulnerability
When you're at the beginning of your storytelling practice you can often feel like it's not your place to tell your story. You compare...

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Quick Story Lesson: Audience
It’s one of the great questions of art: do I make art for myself or for my audience? The answer is both. Art without an audience is like...

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Quick Storytelling Lesson: Emotions
Storytelling is all about emotion. I mean, 'duh', of course it is. Yet I have to mention it because so many people still get this wrong...

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