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Extraordinary Creatives

Extraordinary Creatives

What Four Days Learning About Trauma Taught Me About Creativity

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What if the thing that you keep calling procrastination, lack of confidence or self-sabotage isn’t quite what you think it is? What if one part of you desperately wants the exhibition, the opportunity, or success, while another part is trying just as hard to keep you safe? And what happens to our creativity when we’re also carrying grief, uncertainty, difficult relationships, and everything that’s happened to us before, as well as everything happening in the world around us right now?

I recently spent four days in Oxford thinking exactly about these questions at a conference on trauma…

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