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
“When you feel creatively stuck, do you reach for alcohol, or do you reach for stillness?”
This question reveals Blocked—where busyness and distraction become shields against the discomfort of being still with your creative challenges, and alcohol becomes the easiest escape.
The Connection
When you’re blocked—truly stuck in your creative work—stillness feels impossible. Your mind is already busy, racing, uncomfortable. So you reach for distractions: your phone, music, movies, anything to avoid sitting with what’s actually there. And alcohol makes this incredibly easy. A six-pack. A twelve-pack. A case per week that you tell yourself helps you “release.”
But here’s the pattern: Creative breakthroughs don’t come from distraction. They come from being able to sit in the uncomfortable space of not knowing, of feeling stuck, of witnessing the block without immediately trying to fix it or numb it or escape it.
When alcohol is your go-to response to creative discomfort, you never develop the capacity to be still with what’s difficult. You train yourself to reach for relief instead of space. And that relief is temporary—it doesn’t fix the block, it just postpones your ability to work through it.
The drinking becomes automatic. You feel stuck → reach for alcohol → temporarily feel better → wake up still stuck → repeat. The creative work stays untouched because you’re spending your energy managing the discomfort instead of allowing it to transform into something useful.
You’re not stuck because you lack ideas or talent. You’re stuck because you haven’t learned to be still with the discomfort that precedes creative breakthrough—and alcohol keeps interrupting that process.
The Action
“Disrupt the Pattern by Choosing Stillness”
This isn’t about forcing creativity to happen. This is about building your capacity to be present with creative discomfort without immediately reaching for escape.
Give yourself one week to practice being still when you feel stuck:
Remove alcohol completely for seven days—eliminate the easiest distraction option
When you feel creatively blocked, sit with it for just five minutes without reaching for your phone, screens, or any other distraction
Notice what emerges when you stop trying to immediately relieve the discomfort of feeling stuck
What This Looks Like for Alcohol-Free Creativity
Space
Comfort with the unknown instead of constant need for relief
Mental room for ideas to emerge naturally instead of being drowned out
The ability to witness your stuck-ness without making it worse through distraction
Clarity
Recognition that feeling stuck is temporary, not permanent
Access to your creative capacity when you’re not numbing the discomfort
Discovery that stillness itself can be where your best ideas arrive
The Result
Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine yourself feeling creatively stuck—but instead of immediately reaching for alcohol or distraction, you simply sit with it. You witness it. You breathe. And in that space you create by not escaping, something shifts. An idea emerges. A connection forms. The block begins to loosen—not because you forced it, but because you gave it room to transform.
This is how we disrupt the pattern: Through awareness. By learning to be still with creative discomfort instead of escaping it. By recognizing that alcohol isn’t helping you through the block—it’s preventing the breakthrough.
Your best creative work is waiting on the other side of stillness. And you can access it now, not when you “feel better”—because removing alcohol is what allows you to finally be present with what wants to emerge.
When you remove alcohol, you discover you’re capable of sitting with discomfort long enough for it to become creation—and that you were never truly stuck 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.
