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Art Juice Ep 6: Overcoming a Creative Block

We can all recognise this sorry state of affairs, and it’s not fun! We dig into the different times this can happen and share our ways of resolving it.

We discuss the difference between procrastinating, being temporarily frozen, or being truly blocked. Is a real block caused by a disconnect between what you ‘want’ and what you are actually doing? Is it a result of losing your connection with your deeper self? While a pause is OK – and sometimes needed and necessary – we come up with some questions to ask yourself, and offer two different ways you can get inspired again by leaning in and investigating.

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"Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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