Written by a Creativity Coach who has worked with thousands of creative types over the years, including writers, musicians, artists, dancers and actors, this book explores challenges, such as: deciding if you have talent; determining your level of commitment; pursuing stardom - or not; honing your craft; overcoming blocks; and more.

Presents a fresh direction in spirituality, one away from inward looking to a more active participation in the world but without a directive from some higher force. This book focuses on presenting floundering unbelievers and wavering believers with a picture of the universe they can embrace and a life programme they can work.

Offers a programme for addiction recovery specifically designed for the creative person. This book shows readers how they can use their own innate creative abilities at each stage of the recovery process to secure behaviour change for long-lasting recovery.

To write what they want to write the way they want to write it, most writers need to carve out a psychic space as well as a physical one. This book shows readers how to do that. It helps them to identify the emotional and physical impulses that spark their creative process and to streamline their writing lives.

Both a high-functioning journal and an elegant compendium of inspirational quotes, Writers and Artists on Love includes 240 quotations by artists, one for every page, all on the theme of loving the creative process. The authors selections are thought-provoking, insightful and sensitive, sure to resonate with artistic souls, literary types, and romantics.

Coaching The Artist Within shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create. Topics include committing, planning and doing, ..

Using examples of famous (Vincent Van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevksy) and not so famous artists and creative people who have struggled with depression, Dr Maisel shows what lessons can be learned from them and how depression can be harnesed and put to creative use.

Every writer needs a simpatico environment to be productive, and what better place than that mecca of creativity, San Francisco? This book gives writers the guidance they need to take a literal or figurative soul-renewing sojourn to San Francisco.