Why Creative Renewal Starts in the Nervous System, Not the Vision Board

Judith Richey

Published on: 07/04/2026

Every January — and every spring, and honestly every Monday morning — millions of people sit down with a blank page or a fresh canvas of cork board and begin the ritual of imagining a better life. They cut out images. They write intentions. They choose a word for the year. They make plans. And then, somewhere between the vision and the living of it, something stalls...