“I'm not a real writer,” she said.

One of my clients spent nearly 20 years writing in private.

She’d kept a journal. Dozens of them, actually.

But the idea of anyone reading her words? That was an instant no.

She called herself “not a real writer.” Just someone who liked to jot down observations about life.

Then we started working together. And a few sessions in, she told me she’d started a blog.

Nothing big, she said. Just a few posts.

But she was publishing them under her own name.

“I don’t know what happened,”she said.“I just stopped being so afraid of what other people think of me.”

Here’s what I know after 30 years of this work: What looks like a creativity block is almost always a fear problem.

The ideas are there. The voice is there.

What’s in the way is the part of your brain that learned, somewhere along the line, that expressing yourself was risky.

Maybe you got laughed at for something you made.

Maybe someone told you to be more practical.

Maybe you just watched enough people get criticized that you decided to stay hidden.

Whatever it was, it left a mark. And now your inner critic is working overtime to protect you from it happening again.

Hypnosis can help with that.

By working at the subconscious level, we can release what shut you down in the first place ... without even needing to revisit it.

So you can create from a place of calm instead of bracing yourself against judgment.

Turns out my client was a real writer after all.

And who knows? Maybe you are, too.

If you’ve been sitting on a creative project, let’s talk about how to get you moving ahead.