The Healing Power of Creativity (For When You’ve Given Up on Yours)

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for the ones who stopped creating—not because they didn’t love it, but because somewhere along the way, they felt they had to be great at it to be allowed back in. We explore what it means to return to creativity after stepping away, how to reframe the fear of not measuring up, and why the healing power of creating comes not from the outcome, but the act itself. Come home to your art, your process, and your breath—as we Calm it Down in 3…2…1.

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0:00.0	You know that moment when you find money in your jacket pocket?
0:04.0	Ugh, that little burst of joy.
0:07.0	Surprise.
0:08.0	Well, imagine feeling that way every week.
0:12.0	That's what comment down deeper is like.
0:15.0	Here's the deal.
0:17.0	Every episode, ad-free and early.
0:21.2	You get them on Sunday instead of on Tuesdays.
0:24.0	Plus, exclusive meditations, live Q&A's that will make you feel like you've got VIP pass to tranquility.
0:33.4	So if this podcast is your cup of tea, think of Calm It Down Deeper.
0:38.3	That's the whole teapot.
0:39.8	No really.
0:41.0	Check it out at Cometdownpodcast.com and look for Cometdown Deeper.
0:47.5	There's even a free trial.
0:48.8	So if it's not your thing, it's okay.
0:51.2	It's no big deal, no sweat.
0:53.3	Check it out.
0:59.6	Commentdownpodcast.com. Look for, calm it down deeper.
1:14.6	And now on to the time that you created for the joy of it. Not for the outcome, not for the applause, just because. Maybe you forgot. Maybe someone made you forget.
1:24.6	But the thing about creativity, it remembers. Even when you've parted away your paints and the pens and the poems, even when the piano gathers dust or the camera sits
1:30.5	on a shelf. Even when you whisper, I'm not creative anymore, it whispers back, I'm still here
1:40.6	waiting.
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