CREATIVE BLOCKS
A creative block isn’t always an absence of ideas. It’s a presence — of pressure, fear, or something not ready to take form.
There may be a strong desire to create, but nothing feels worth grabbing. No image holds. No idea has enough gravity. Without a meaningful context like a project to hook into, creativity can feel unmoored, unable to organize itself around anything substantial.
This can feel like internal congestion: a fullness that hasn’t yet found its shape.
Creative blocks often gather around competing wishes: the wish to be seen alongside wish to hide, the wish for notoriety alongside the wish to stop striving. These wishes coexist. The pull toward expression lives next to the pull toward retreat. The hope that something meaningful might emerge sits alongside the temptation to give up. A block can hold all of this at once — longing, ambition, fatigue, relief — without resolution.
In this way, creative blocks are not only artistic problems. They are emotional, relational, and sometimes existential ones.
Creating can also be lonely. It often requires choosing solitude over connection, returning to the studio or the desk while life is happening elsewhere.
In therapy, these tensions don’t just get named, they get worked with. Competing pulls are brought into contact with each other. When these positions can speak and be responded to, movement becomes possible again.
Therapy can also become a space for creative collaboration. We can workshop ideas and see what has energy. You can try out directions that feel unfinished or even absurd, play out different possibilities, and notice what begins to move when pressure is removed. Action comes less from forcing progress and more from staying in contact with what wants to take shape.
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