when you feel hopelessly blocked and utterly thwarted. I am not going to torment you with a description of what you’re going through. We’ve all faced the blank page and come up with … nothing. What follows is predictable. Procrastination. Urgency to binge (pick your poison). Isolation. Lack of bathing. Despair. Cheese breath. Okay, I said I […]
A New Way to Find Your Voice
It’s embarrassing and it works. But first, a brief story. Writers and psychotherapists, if they’re any good, are both truth-speakers. I know. I’m both. And, honestly, I became a writer and a psychotherapist as legitimate outlets for my over-zealous truth-speaking, which general society did not particularly welcome, due to cultural imperatives such as tact, etiquette, and […]