Ep 260: Cultivating a Dream - Reclaiming a lost self
Oct 8, 2025
Unlock your creative flow by reclaiming your lost self! Discover how life’s demands, relationships, and burnout can block your energy. Learn the importance of creating private psychic space, forgiving your creative lapses, and reframing your goals. Dive into routines that support your nervous system, tackle avoidance behaviors, and trust uncontrolled flow for authentic work. Externalize your fears through unique journaling techniques and interpret your dreams for deeper insights. Get ready to design your life around your creative aspirations!
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Creativity Is A Relearned Muscle
- Creative muscles atrophy from long stretches in non-creative roles.
- Sarah Mae Bates compares relearning creativity to reteaching yourself how to swim.
Make Success Internal And Continuous
- Move your locus of success inward and pick internal, continuous metrics.
- Use journal prompts to define your truest why and celebrate small growth milestones.
From Metrics Obsession To Internal Metric
- Sarah Mae Bates shares obsessing over podcast metrics early in her show.
- She shifted to internal metrics like 'if it helps one person' to stabilize her drive.



