022: Clarity of Mind
Every urge resisted is an act of creation waiting to unfold
✨Weekly Insight
✍🏻Essays
🚨Emergency Resource for Alcohol Cravings When Quitting Drinking
This guide is meant to act as a resource for when you want to drink. When the craving seems unbearable. This is common during the first couple of weeks. Below will help you when this happens.
You’ll notice new “Resources” tab on the homepage. I’ll continue to build more specific, oriented practices and strategies you can take away when changing your relationship with alcohol and building your creative clarity.
🎙️Clear Conversations: Creative Minds in Sobriety
Episode 020 - The Raw Chaos That Grows the Lotus: Stephanie Raffelock on Creativity and Sobriety
“I learned that creativity doesn’t come in a vial of white powder.” This wisdom from record producer Keith Olson after getting sober at Betty Ford became a touchstone for Stephanie Raffelock—a reminder that authentic creative power emerges not from substances, but from facing “the raw chaos and mud that grows the lotus within you.”
Episode 21 with Deborah Jeanne Weitzman is happening on October 9 at 10a EST.
Join us for a conversation with Deborah Jeanne Weitzman — performer, teacher, writer, and truth-seeker who has devoted her life to helping people discover their authentic voice.
We’ll explore the intersection of sobriety and creativity — how letting go of who we think we have to be opens the door to authentic expression, and how finding our true voice can be a path to freedom and joy.
A native New Yorker now based in Oslo, Norway, Deborah is a recovering perfectionist who understands the journey from debilitating anxiety to the raw pleasure of creative expression. She travels the world teaching voice, breath work, and the Alexander Technique, helping students overcome harmful tensions and habits that hold them back — in their creative work and in life.
Deborah’s newsletter, Set Your Voice Free, is a supportive space for overcoming perfectionism and embracing an authentic, joyful life—even in the face of challenges. Twice a week, she shares inspiration, moments of wonder, and practical tools to help you unlock your creative flow and reconnect with the magic of simply being alive.
🌟 More From This Week
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Ready To Go Deeper?
🎯 There’s a pattern around your alcohol use that may be negatively impacting your creative potential.
Below is a free 5-minute quiz that reveals exactly how it’s affecting your specific creative expression—and how alcohol might be maintaining it.
🧐 You may already know alcohol could be impacting your creative potential.
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Each step forward is an act of becoming the person you want to be.
Thank you for being here.
Josh