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How I Overcame 3 Months Creative Resistance as a Musician

How I Overcame 3 Months Creative Resistance as a Musician

Update: 2025-11-26
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✉️ The Creative Life Newsletter

The artist’s journey is long. I write a newsletter to help you stay on it 👉 https://jim-kroft.short.gy/0925A/Jim-Kroft-newsletter

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Welcome back to The Creative Life Podcast.

This week I’m sharing the story behind a three-month stretch of deep creative resistance — a period where I thought I was breaking down, only to realise something far more important was breaking out of me.

It’s a personal episode, but a hopeful one. Because what came out of this resistance has given me the clearest sense of direction I’ve had in years.

If you’re a creative who feels dispersed, off-centre, or unable to return to your core work, I think there will be lots of good stuff in here for you.

  • 🎯 Why resistance hits hardest when you’ve drifted too far from your centre
  • 🎹 How one raw moment at the piano was a gateway back to my own musical heart
  • 🧭 How to recognise misalignment before it becomes a full creative stall (especially when dispersed)
  • ✂️ Why radical subtraction can help you get back to the core
  • 🔄 How to rebuild momentum when you’ve lost the thread of a project

Thanks guys - rating and reviewing (or even better sharing!) so appreciated!
Jim

All music in this episode is my own — stream it on Spotify.
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🎧 Spotify Music: spoti.fi/4aHoI0Y

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How I Overcame 3 Months Creative Resistance as a Musician

How I Overcame 3 Months Creative Resistance as a Musician

Jim Kroft