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Therapy for Artists and Creatives

Life for any artist or creative person seems to have two poles, and neither pole is particularly easy. On the one hand, you can hide, and you can look for ways to stay safe, warm and fed. Usually this pole entails mounting existential despair and confusion, and actual clinical-level symptoms of anxiety and depression. Often it involves dropping offline in daily tasks because some part of you is always somewhere else. Or some part of you is buried but it keeps speaking, and it’s hard to focus on life’s seemingly frantic daily necessities when there is so much background noise going on. (Perhaps you even begin to take refuge in these seemingly urgent daily necessities, to an unhealthy degree, because then you don’t have to hear that buried part of you speaking.)

“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.”

-Jack Kerouac -

On the other hand, you can step off of the “safe path,” and begin to live life in free fall, as all American artists must (even the really “successful” ones). And as you weather the totally naked, exposed, vulnerable, not “safe” feelings, and the gale force wind of that life in free fall, the temptation to find some way to lie, some way to take shelter, some way to not appear as no one but yourself, some way to just start doing what “sells,” can be enormous. This is especially true for American artists and creatives, as salesmanship is so deeply woven into the fabric of our consumer culture (AND America provides essentially no support or safety net for the artist’s life), and some part of you wants to accept that that is just how it is (right?) while another part of you (shall we call it your Soul?) is probably deeply offended by this seemingly inescapable state of affairs.

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"I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness."

- Alan Moore -

It’s that other part of you that I want to help you to keep alive. I agree with the sentiment of the great psychoanalyst, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, that the human heart and soul are the most endangered species on the planet. I care deeply about helping to preserve the human heart and soul, in my clinical work, and also in my own art and writing practice. I always try to walk my talk, and I’m not always perfect. I will be a real human being with you, within the parameters of our professional relationship, and I will never hide behind the mask of pretending to know something I don’t, or pretending to have the answers. Sometimes there are no answers other than your own specific devotional practices or remembrances that help you to live in alignment with your authentic values, and with a greater sense of peace and purpose.