How to Get Creativity Back

Marisa Mohi
6 min readApr 3, 2024

You used to feel like an artist, but life happened and now you want to know how to get creativity back. Well. You’re in luck because you never lost it.

I believe everyone is creative. But a lot of people choose not to use their creativity or they aren’t in a place where they have time to devote to it. Then, it feels like you can’t access creativity when you want to, and you worry it’s gone.

Don’t worry. You don’t need to know how to increase creativity in the brain. You just need to give your brain some space to use creative energy.

How to Get Creativity Back

Creativity never really goes away. It just lies dormant until there’s some room for it.

So, if you’re worried you’ll never make art again and you wanna know how to get creativity back, don’t freak out. Your creativity is there, but it needs some space.

I spent many years working in very uncreative jobs. From technical writing to communications instructor, I paid my dues in my business casual slacks. With every work project I did that was patently not creative, it felt like I was losing myself bit by bit.

I know now that wasn’t true, but it was hard to see it then. After leaving my last day job, and slowing down the freelance work I had been doing, I started to see a real…

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Marisa Mohi

novelist, blogger, and tarot reader | former tech writer, college instructor, and instructional designer | black coffee or GTFO | https://marisamohi.com