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Workaholic or Blocked Creative?

by Barbara Martin on April 5, 2009

in Creativity at Work

Are you guilty of work abuse? In Week 10 of The Artist’s Way creativity program, Julia Cameron asks us to consider whether we might be workaholics. While forward progress requires steady work, there is an emotional difference between that and being a work addict.
Addicted to Work or Just Busy?
There is a difference between working [...]

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Being Blocked is Addictive

by Barbara Martin on March 25, 2009

in How to Tips

Creativity expert Julia Cameron, writing in her creativity manual “The Artist’s Way”, notes that blocked creative types resort to an addictive cocktail of blocks: obsessions with work, food, alcohol, sex or love and more, in whatever form is handy to soothe us. These feel-good-for-the-moment behaviors are essentially creative U-turns made to alleviate fear.
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