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Why Creative Work Isolates You from Relationships

My partner says I am moody and distant when I am working on something and they are right but I do not know how to be present for my life and my art at the same time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The creative process demands a quality of attention that can starve the relationships that sustain the creator.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined creative life?”

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