Artist's Issues

Beverly Hills Creative Blocks

A creative block is a sense of crippling fear and anxiety which manifests itself in an inability to express yourself through the medium you have chosen as a creative executive or artist. Blocks can creep into your ability to in front of a camera, put paint to canvas, open your mouth to sing, develop, spot talent, produce or write.

Blocks can come up any time during a career, but often happen later after there has been some success when there is more at stake.

Often, underlying issues of feelings of inadequacy, which have been covered up or easily expressed early on in one’s career, come charging to the surface when a block hits. Past methods of “powering through” the block suddenly don’t work anymore because the true issues are deeper than just the block in question. Sometimes, fear of success is also part of the block.

Those qualities which led you to pursue your dreams in the Entertainment Industry in the first place; sensitivity, intelligence, drive, creativity, also makes you vulnerable to self-attack when blocks happen. Crippling fear, anxiety and depression often sets in, with accompanying substance abuse or sexual acting out.

Understanding the psychological and emotional underpinnings of the current creative block is the cornerstone of my work with artists and Industry people. This work is based on a realistic understanding of years in the Entertainment Industry and the pressures involved.

I will help you understand yourself as an artist, regain your passion and stop self-sabotaging so you can begin to reconnect with that part of you that still feels the joy of creating.

(For the Signs & Symptoms sidebar):

Creative blocks can manifest in the form fear, anxiety, and ultimately anger turned inward. The pattern can be based in:

• A fear of failure
• A fear of success and the responsibilities that come with it
• A fear of being judged

Often, creative artists become:

• Overwhelmed
• Engage in self doubt, comparisons with others and negative self-talk
• Lost and lose focus
• Look for relief in unhealthy pursuits such as addictions
• Begin to self-sabotage
• Become depressed and anxious

 

 

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