#130: The bonkers mental gymnastics of your writing anxiety

About this episode

This episode explores the exhausting mental gymnastics involved in writing anxiety and the struggle to overcome it.

We all know how hard you have to work to sit down and write. You'll do pretty much anything to avoid it. Have you ever noticed, though, that avoiding your writing is no less exhausting than just bloody doing it? Weird, right? Well, actually, not weird - at least, not when you understand how hard your poor, anxious brain is having to work to trick you into getting your words down. You care deeply about your writing - that's why you're so worried about getting it right. Yet, lots of the most we...

People in this episode

Host: Rebecca Roache

Topics covered

• writing anxiety
• mental health
• self-improvement
• productivity
• creative process

Keywords

• writing
• anxiety
• mental gymnastics
• creativity
• self-doubt
• productivity
• motivation

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