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The Anxiety that Limits Your Creative Genius

By David Robson — 2021

Many professions require you to think flexibly and improvise all day long—but constant pressure to be inventive could be holding you back.

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Opening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health. This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. Leading experts James W.

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James W. Pennebaker, Joshua M. Smyth
2016
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SARK’s Journal and Play!Book: A Place to Dream While Awake

SARK invites the journal writer to compose his/her own creative companion through gentle instructions and playful directions toward artistic freedom. Your “inside child” will peek out to want, wish, find pleasure, and amaze you.

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SARK
1993
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High Functioning Anxiety as an Entrepreneur. How to Manage Your Anxiety.

Does your anxiety refuses to allow you to be content and instead drives you to continually push for more? You might be a high achiever with high functioning anxiety.

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2021
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

With insight, humor, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skillfully and creatively.

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Natalie Goldberg, Julia Cameron (foreword)
2016
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Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts and Practices for Disarming Your Inner Critic and Allowing Creativity to Flow

Journal away from anxiety and towards confidence through the power of creative writing and mind-body practices. Equal parts self-esteem workbook, adult activity book, and mindfulness journal, this indispensable guide calls all creatives to calm down and improve artistic confidence.

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Karen C. L. Anderson
2025
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How to Ask for Help Without Feeling Needy | Kati Morton

From a licensed therapist, here are five tips to help you when you need to ask others for help—whether it be from friends, family, or a health professional—and you don’t want to feel needy while doing so.

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2018
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108 – Matthew McConaughey Explains How to Become More Involved in Your Own Life

You’ve likely seen Matthew McConaughey in one of his movies, like Dazed and Confused, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, or A Time to Kill. In this episode, he talks about his book Greenlights.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties.

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Sandra Marinella
2017
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Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

Wild Mind is for everyone who writes or wants to write. Natalie Goldberg teaches a Zen-like method that will take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is ‘raw, full of energy, alive and hungry.

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Natalie Goldberg
2009
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Notes to Self: A Journal for Self-Care

Self-care has become a buzzword--and a necessary part of life in our stressful and uncertain times. As this creative, insightful journal demonstrates on every page, self-care is whatever you want it to be. Taking a walk in nature. Meeting a friend for tea.

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Lisa Currie
2019
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