Category: Creativity
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Being Creative with OCD
For better and for worse, living with OCD can impact creativity and artistic expression. For some, grappling with OCD and entering recovery may open new pathways for creativity. For others, OCD may lead to creative paralysis and the compulsive hijacking on one’s art form. The intersections of creativity and OCD symptoms are as varied and… Read more
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Getting Good at Being a Beginner
Years ago, when I was learning how to make pottery, I really wanted to throw like the big kids (who, in this situation, were actually adults who had been practicing pottery longer than me). In pottery-speak, “throwing” on a pottery wheel is one way of making things that are round, like plates, cups, and bowls.… Read more