Musings with Meg Dunley, Creativity Coach

Musings with Meg Dunley, Creativity Coach

Mindset insights

Breaking through creative blocks

Feeling stuck? Here’s how to move through creative blocks

Sep 11, 2025
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To my dear Muser

Last week at my monthly group coaching masterclass, we gathered for a powerful session on one of the most universal challenges for every creative: how to move through creative blocks.

Whether you’re a writer, artist, designer, or simply someone trying to bring more creativity into your everyday life, these moments of “stuckness” are part of the process – not signs of failure.

person piling blocks

During the event, I explored the neuroscience behind blocks and the four most common traps that keep us stuck and provided some great and practical strategies to get moving again along with an emergency block-breaking toolkit.

For this month’s Mindset Insight, a perk for my paid subscribers, I wanted to share some of this knowledge, give you some strategies on how to break through these blocks and provide you with the emergency block-breaking kit that you can use for immediate assistance and long term prevention.

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