How to Interpret and Break through Creative Blocks  

By Ronald Alexander  As a mind-body therapist working with creative clients for more than 40 years, I discovered that blocks to creativity can be rooted in old losses or trauma and can occur unexpectedly.   That’s what happened to one of my clients who was a writer and who had been successful in her craft for many years. But suddenly she developed writer’s block. When she came into my office, she reported that she felt as if she were inside a large block of ice and her arms and hands were frozen. She had no ideas and would stare at her laptop screen paralyzed, unable to type more than a few sentences before deleting them.   After I took her medical and psychological history over a few sessions, I recognized signs that she might be dealing with unconscious trauma and abuse. I knew my client had to release the pain and afflictive emotions, and then harness them to use in her own self-directed pursuit. Doing this healing work could help her get to a new level in her writing, as I’ve seen happen with other clients.   I felt confident that Somatic Experiencing work, a therapy aimed at processing trauma, would help my client liberate herself from her creative block. As we worked together, I asked her to meditate and focus on her “blocked” feeling. Where did it reside? What were its qualities? As she identified the blockage, her shoulders rolled forward, and she bent in on herself as if she were frail and frightened. She began...
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