A no-excuses, cut-to-the-chase program for defining, training for, and achieving your goalsAs life gets busier and more complicated we crave something larger and more meaningful than just ticking another item off our to-do list. In the past, we’ve looked to religion or outside guidance for that sense of purpose, but today fewer people are fulfilled by traditional approaches to meaning. Bestselling author, psychotherapist, and creativity coach Eric Maisel offers an ...

What if everything you've been told about meaning is wrong?For centuries, philosophers, theologians, and self-help gurus have treated meaning as something that either descends upon us like grace - or withholds itself forever. Either life has meaning, or it doesn't. Either you find it, or you spend your days searching.Dr. Eric Maisel proposes something far more radical - and far more liberating.Meaning is a feeling. A specific, cultivatable psychological experience t...

ENTER THE AGE OF THE EXISTENTIAL NOMADWe are entering a psychological and cultural era in which the old structures that once organized human life-stable identities, lifelong careers, prescribed roles, and shared pathways to meaning-are dissolving. In their place is emerging a new kind of person: the existential nomad.Earlier generations often accepted ready-made identities supplied by family, religion, community, or profession. Toda...

In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled “writer’s block,” “procrastination,” or “stage fright.” It’s the particular anxiety that, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are driven toward. This “creative anxiety” can take the form of avoiding the work, declaring it not good enough, or failing to market it — and it can cripple creators for decades, even lifetimes. Bu...

As a therapist and creativity coach Eric Maisel has worked with thousands of creative people. He knows firsthand the struggles that writers musicians artists dancers and actors face and has helped them find balance in their lives while pursuing their artistic endeavors. His new book presents a comprehensive approach to the much-misunderstood life of the artist. Creativity for Life offers practical ideas as well as exercises and inspiration to nurture growth as an artist and as a person exp...

Change Not Only What You Think—But How You Think2021 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist!#1 Best Seller in Creativity Self-HelpExperience a complete mental fitness and cognitive change program through simple visualization exercises. Eric Maisel, PhD. guides you through techniques that change not only what you think—but how you think.Your mind is yours to redesign, redecorate and create! ...

A powerful, ten-second technique can change stress into calm, strength and a centered approach. The basis of The Ten Second Pause is using a single deep breath as a container for a specific thought.This technique is simple to grasp, simple to use, simple to practice and simple to master. This technique can be used anywhere, anytime, by anyone and it's profound in its benefits. You'll find yourself able to do things that previously felt too painful or too difficult to attempt. You'l...

In this provocative and pathbreaking distillation of a career spent working with individuals seeking help with mood and motivation, Eric Maisel reveals the implications of one of the most dramatic cultural shifts of our time. In recent decades, much of the unhappiness inherent in the human condition has been monetized and labeled as the disease of depression and related disorders. Maisel persuasively critiques this sickness model and prescribes a potent new therapy. The existential cogniti...

Have you ever wished you had a professional coach who could encourage your creative pursuits help structure your efforts and cheer you on? Coaching the Artist Within is the first book to explain the techniques that creativity coaches use to help their clients survive and thrive in the arts. Designed to help any person become more creative this book offers a complete program for developing the habits that make creating an everyday routine. The books twelve lessons and numerous exercises are...

"Applying the metaphor of a complete 'home rehab' to the mind, [ Redesign Your Mind] presents an engaging series of visualization techniques." — Publishers WeeklyYour mind is like a room that is yours to redesign—a space that you can declutter, air out, furnish, decorate, and turn into a truly congenial place. Today, cognitive-behavioral therapy and CBT techniques are the tools that help us do this. In this book, Dr. Eric Maisel, Ph.D. moves cognit...

Eric Maisel’s prolific, multifaceted career is a testament to his profound understanding of what it takes to live out one’s creative ambitions. A therapist who is also a bestselling author, coach (and coach trainer), columnist for Professional Artist magazine, and featured blogger for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, Maisel is an expert on all that blocks the creative. In Making Your Creative Mark, Maisel distills his decades of coaching, teaching, listening, and creating into nin...

Go on a Journey Towards Personal Growth and Unlock Your Life's PurposeUnravel the myth of a singular life purpose ingrained in religious teachings and societal notions#1 New Release in Free Will & Determinism PhilosophyLiberate yourself from the "life purpose trap." Leading life coach, regular contributor to Psychology Today, and renowned author Eric Maisel presents a contemporary philosophy that ch...