By: Lauren Sapala
January 17, 2025

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Overthinking is a big problem for both INFJ personality types and INFP personality types. As a writing coach who specializes in working with both types, I’ve seen that overthinking is tied to INFJs and INFPs struggling overall with creativity, feeling connected to their intuition, and life in general. So many INFJs and INFPs have said […]

By: Ricky Lyman
July 28, 2023

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How I ended the misery of anxiety in my life. I woke up in a fog that morning. I woke up in somebody else’s apartment, in someone else’s life, as someone I barely knew. My skin felt heavy and dull. I was worn out and exhausted from constant worry and fear. 4 years earlier, I […]

By: Jas
April 16, 2023

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This is Part 2 of the ‘Flow for writers’ series. You can read Part 1 in full HERE, or find a short recap below. Welcome to Part 2 of the ‘Flow for writers’ series. As a mini-recap for Part 1: A psychologist called Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi (“Chick-sent-me-high”) spent decades researching the concepts of FLOW and CREATIVITY […]

By: Jas
March 27, 2023

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A Hungarian-American scientist dedicated his life’s work to researching the science and art of flow. His decades of research included studying those working in creative, scientific and sporting fields. Needless to say, his vast body of work is of relevance to us all, and especially to those of us who wish to write more effectively […]

By: Lauren Sapala
February 7, 2023

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The choices around publishing these days are probably some of the toughest choices a writer has to make. We’re all familiar with the first big choice between going the traditional publishing route or deciding to self-publish. However, even after that choice is made, many other choices follow. One of the biggest roadblocks to writers deciding […]

By: Lauren Sapala
January 9, 2023

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Over the years, I have worked with many writers who dream of writing a book that will help serve humanity. Much of the time, the writer has experienced some sort of deep trauma, gone through a healing journey because of that trauma, and then come out on the other side with a unique perspective on […]

By: Lauren Sapala
January 3, 2023

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One of my students asked me the other day about the positives of being an INFJ writer. The question made me stop and think because I realized that, although we talk a lot about the struggles of being an INFJ writer, rarely do we pause to appreciate the gifts. And there are plenty of gifts, […]

By: Lauren Sapala
December 6, 2022

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In my last article, One Easy Way to Tell the Difference Between Fear and Intuition, I talked about the exact way that fear feels different from intuition, and how you can learn how to feel this difference yourself and use it to separate the two. That article triggered a flurry of questions from my readers about how to […]

By: Julia Cameron
September 2, 2022

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It is the ego’s dicey proposition that as artists we should always be “special” and different. The ego likes to be set apart. It likes to look down its nose at the rest of humanity. Such isolation is actually damaging. It is like the reverse of the Midas touch turning everything golden into a problem. […]

By: Lauren Sapala
August 24, 2022

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Picture this: You’re sitting around relaxing, scrolling through Instagram, when suddenly you see a post from a writer friend: “So excited! Just signed on with my dream agent! Woo-hoo!!!” Instantly, your stomach drops and you feel slightly nauseous, and then two seconds later you feel guilty as hell. There’s no denying it, you’re jealous, even […]

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