Disrupt the Pattern helps creative professionals break the alcohol cycle that keeps you from addressing the real areas blocking your creativity—feeling blocked, drained, or hidden. Each episode uses a randomized question generator to spark real-time reflection—no scripts, no planning, just honest exploration of what’s potentially blocking your creative potential.
We start with exploring one randomly selected question about the areas that disrupt creativity: blocked, drained, or hidden. These feelings can show up with anyone; the distinction is when alcohol becomes the escape instead of working with what’s actually happening. Through awareness and action, you’ll learn to disrupt your relationship with alcohol and unlock the creativity that’s been waiting.
The Question
“What project are you postponing until you “feel ready to drink less”?”
This question revealed Blocked—where managing your drinking becomes the project, leaving no energy for the work that actually matters.
The Connection
When you’re blocked—stuck in the cycle of managing how much you drink, when you drink, whether you’ll drink tonight—your creative project sits there waiting. Tomorrow. Next week. When things settle down. When you feel ready.
But here’s the pattern: The project you want to create requires your best energy, your clearest thinking, your most authentic work. And when you’re using that energy to manage your relationship with alcohol, there’s nothing left for the work. So you tell yourself you’ll start when you drink less. When you get it under control. When you’re ready.
The drinking becomes support. A way to deal with the frustration of not making progress. A way to quiet the voice that knows you’re capable of more. And the cycle tightens: manage drinking → feel blocked from creating → drink to cope with the block → wake up knowing you still haven’t started → manage drinking again.
You’re not blocked because you lack talent or ideas or time. You’re blocked because you’re spending your creative energy on the wrong project. The project of managing alcohol. And that project never finishes. It just keeps you from the work that’s actually waiting.
The Action
“Disrupt the Pattern by Letting Go of Managing”
This isn’t about starting your project through willpower. This is about recognizing that the mental energy you spend managing your relationship with alcohol is the same energy your creative work needs—and you can’t do both.
Give yourself one week to stop managing and start creating:
Let go of alcohol completely for seven days—not “drink less” or “moderate better,” but actually stop managing it entirely
Redirect that freed-up mental energy to one specific element of your postponed project—even just 15 minutes of engagement
Notice what becomes possible when you stop negotiating with yourself about drinking and start showing up for your actual work
What This Looks Like for Alcohol-Free Creativity
Space
Freedom from the constant mental negotiation about drinking
Energy available for the work you’ve been postponing
The ability to engage with your project without waiting to “feel ready”
Clarity
Creating from your best place instead of your leftover energy
Seeing the actual obstacles in your project—not the ones alcohol creates
Discovering you were ready all along; you just needed to stop managing something else
The Result
Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine that project you’ve been postponing—not starting someday when you feel ready, but alive right now. Picture yourself engaging with it, bringing your full creative energy to the work instead of spending it on managing your drinking. See the progress you make when you’re no longer blocked by the wrong project.
This is how we disrupt the pattern: Through awareness. By recognizing what’s actually consuming your creative energy. By choosing to create instead of manage.
Your project is worth starting. And you can start now, not when you drink less—because letting go of managing alcohol is what clears the block.
When you remove alcohol, you discover what you’re actually capable of creating—and that you were never truly blocked at all.
Reveal Your Area
Are you experiencing feeling Blocked, Drained, or Hidden?
Understanding which area you’re stuck in—and how alcohol is keeping you there—is the first step to breaking free.
If you are ready to explore what sobriety can bring to your creativity, book an exploration call with me.
Each week, a new question. A new area to explore. See you in the next episode.
