Overcoming Creative Anxiety

Overcoming Creative Anxiety

Taken by 19,558 people

Are you creating less often than you would like? Are you avoiding your creative work altogether? Anxiety may be the culprit! Anxiety regularly stops creative people in their tracks and makes their experience of creating more painful than pleasurable. It stops would-be creative people entirely, preventing them from realizing their dreams. Anxiety is the number one problem that creative people face, and yet few know about it.

Do you procrastinate? That's anxiety. Do you resist getting to your work or marketing your work? That's anxiety. Do you have trouble deciding which creative project to tackle? That's anxiety. Do you find completing work hard? That's anxiety. Anxiety is everywhere in the creative process. Learn what to do about it! This course provides the answers. Learn the sources of your anxiety and anxiety management tools and techniques that will help you create regularly and deeply.

What you'll learn in this course:

  • How to start and complete your creative projects without experiencing disabling anxiety.
  • How little-known anxiety management techniques can help enormously.
  • How successful artists cope with their anxiety.
  • What not to do to deal with creative anxiety.
  • Why mastering anxiety is the key to a rich creative life.
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Overcoming Creative Anxiety
Taken by 19,558 people
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
This is the total amount for all lessons.
Pay extra to give more to our instructors and to help create new courses. No matter how much you pay, you'll get the same course as everybody else.
What People Are Saying
“I am so grateful that I signed up for this course. First, to know it is anxiety and second, that it is 'human, and very ordinary'. I appreciate the flow of the lessons and found anew the beauty and service in writing. Thank you Eric Maisel for an excellent start.”
Patricia
"This is my sixth course in DailyOM. I believe this is the most beautifully written course, befitting the topic of art. I like the subtlety and delicacy of it! I especially love the parables because they make the penny drop quite forcibly indeed! Thank you Eric! You might change my life!"
Priya
"I have gained heightened awareness of so many aspects of my creative anxiety that I've battled since childhood. The stories and techniques are very helpful. This course is really complementing the strengths and practices I've worked on during my many years of Alanon. My art making is coming unstuck and the insights from this course are helping me as an art teacher. I have recommended this class to my adult ed students."
Elle
"These techniques would have helped me cope with criticism of my artwork in the past, and indeed in other difficult situations of my life. I will certainly utilise them now going forward."
Barbara
“Just finished the course. Whether the creative life or just the general day to day, anxiety can present itself. Loved the Teaching Tale in lesson 16! Solid truth there. Nothing like achieving one's goal and then feeling the emptiness of, what's next? Great tips for heading off the funk before it gets there! Thank you.”
Heather
“Wow!! I am so happy that I am doing this course!! I have been a curled up ball of anxiety, it is a wonder I got anything done! Thank you Eric!! Especially the suggestions to calm anxiety!!”
Eva

Meet Your Teacher

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Eric Maisel, Ph.D. is the author of more than 50 books and a noted thought leader in the area of critical psychology. He is a retired family therapist, active creativity coach, and critical psychology advocate. He writes the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today, lectures nationally and internationally, provides keynotes for organizations like the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, and facilitates deep writing workshops around the world in locations like Paris, London, New York, Dublin, Prague, and Rome.

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