Welcome to Reviving Creative Spirit!

Re-Imagining Stories of Addiction, Recovery, and Creativity through Archetypal Images

Why It Matters

In addition to ruining my health, finances, and relationships, addiction to alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opioids complicated and perverted my relationship to art, once the primary way I could express my thoughts and emotions. While I’m beyond grateful to have been shown a new way to live, there was a time when I wasn’t sure I could ever again risk artistic endeavors.

But by researching the work of Dr. Carl Jung and his contemporaries, I discovered I could, and that a creative practice could be a boon, if not synonymous to my spiritual development, my recovery from addiction.

Through this newsletter, I share how archetypal storytelling and visual memoirs can help us heal, create, and reconnect to our inner power.

If you're suffering from addiction, navigating recovery, or seeking creative inspiration, this space is for you.

What You'll Get

🔹 Subscribe for free and receive:

• Personal essays on addiction, creativity, and recovery

• Comic book-style narratives exploring archetypes like The Outlaw, The Hostage, and The Trickster

• Insights into how storytelling can transform personal experience

🔹 Become a paid subscriber and get:

• Exclusive deep-dive essays
  e.g.: The Underground Man and the Artist’s Isolation: Why Addiction Feeds on Alienation

• Unpublished mini graphic memoirs
  Visual narratives of close calls, breakthroughs, and other high drama episodes from my personal adventures before and after.

• Behind-the-scenes creative process

  • Videos, tutorials, and links relating How I translate personal experience into archetypal storytelling

  • My step-by-step workflow for creating graphic memoirs in Procreate

• Early access to serialized projects

  • A first look at longer-form stories before I share them publicly

• Support for independent creative work in recovery

  • Insights on avoiding pitfalls, maintaining a creative practice while staying relapse-free

• Community events

  • Live group calls, giveaways, and workshops

Call to Action

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