Creative Dysregulation: Why Your Creativity Is Chaotic & What to Do About It

‘creative dysregulation, ' which I defined simply as the inability to sustainably and reliably create without a mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual crisis along the way.

Plotkin, founder of this vision quest organization and author of the life-changing book Soulcraft, where he writes: There’s so much more to who you are than you know right now. You are, indeed, something mysterious and someone magnificent. You hold within you — secreted for safekeeping in your heart — a great gift for this world.

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” — Paulo Coelho

Helen Keller reminded me, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”