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ICP 252 How To Move Beyond The Discomfort and Struggle That Affect Your Creative Work

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In this episode you’ll learn:

  • What discomfort and uncertainty can tell you
  • The different kinds of creative resistance
  • The fastest way to get moving forward again
Dave Ursillo quote how we spend our lives is what our lives ultimately become

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Is your best creative work causing disruption in your life?

How do you know?

How do you find the time and energy to do more of what’s important without creating more chaos and struggle?

In this short action episode, we explore the difference between two types of creative resistance:

Discomfort and struggle.

Writer, healer and Unavoidable Writing teacher, Dave Ursillo, from episode 251, reveals the idea that our fear shadow is the very thing that is often between us and our very best creative work;

The lives we are attempting to create.

We explore what the fear shadow is…

Hear how you can spot it and move forward with your creative work in the most effective way possible.

Items mentioned in this episode (quick access):

[02:06] Introducing this short action episode.

[02:41] Dave describes the fear shadow.

[04:19] An example of one of the three shadows.

[06:06] The fastest way to get moving forward again.

[06:39] The different kinds of creative resistance.

[09:23] Self-limiting beliefs.

[11:04] Reflecting on the fear shadow.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

  • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
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