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How to Solve ANY Writing Block

How to Solve ANY Writing Block

And an invitation to troubleshoot your problem/submit your question ✨

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May 14, 2025
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Dear Friends,

In light of Monday’s post, How to Fall Back in Love With Your Newsletter, I wanted to share a past exercise I put together to help writers identify what’s actually tripping them up.

We can lead more conscious lives—and better meet our writing goals—if we take the time to identify what we’re doing (or not doing) and understand how and why this aligns (or doesn’t align) with our ambitions. I truly believe this exercise will help your writing practice. Please set aside some quiet time to do it.

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I wrote about this in Making the Unconscious Conscious, so if you need a review on how the subconscious shapes, um, pretty much everything, please revisit that post.

It’s profoundly moving to see that, at every level of success, our anxieties, worries, and self-doubts are fundamentally the same. We’re wired to protect ourselves against danger, most of which, in our well-appointed modern lives, takes the form of shame.

It usually comes down this:

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