Every time I am interviewed for someone’s website or podcast, I get asked, “What do you do when you’re in a creative rut?”
And I usually spit out a generic (but authentic) answer about not being stressed about it and just letting creativity come and go as she pleases.
But I realized that I actually have an answer. A solution to a creative drought!
The answer doesn’t lie within a book, a movie, a song, or even a drug.
All you have to do is make room for the creativity to come back.
Do the thing you’ve been avoiding. The amount of relief you will feel will literally clear out an entire mansion to home new creativity.
Clean your mind: go on a walk, wake up earlier, put your phone down, honor your screen time alert instead of clicking ignore. drive in silence. meditate. breathwork. take a break and call a friend. journal.
Clean your spaces: clear out your car, donate old clothes (no one wants to bid on your $3 old ambercrombie tee, btw, just donate it) organize a drawer, clean out and organize your fridge, fill your fridge with a balance of nourishing foods and thrilling treats.
Clean your energy: stop ruminating & obsessing over your fears and focus on how to level up your thoughts just a bit. climb the ladder of emotions (graphic below from Abraham Hicks— i’m not trying to emotionally gaslight you, but this tool has helped me so much)
The biggest energy sucker for me is judgment and resentment. If I am thinking about someone else negatively and am able to send love and move on, I instantly feel a shift in my energy.
Clear your inbox. Respond to texts.
Take a bath or hot shower in sweet silence and let the water wash over you as an energy cleanse. Then take a moment to moisturize every nook and cranny of your body. I swear taking the time to moisturize my knees/elbows/ankles/feet has been a manifestation hack for me.
Journal it out & find the bright side or the lesson learned.
Sit back and let the creativity come back. And remember how exhausting it would be if you were bursting at the seams with ideas every second of the day. Allow yourself to be a dud every once in a while.
Here’s the thing, you intuitively know what needs to be done to make room for new magic in your life, so I’ll shut up now.
xx chloe