Creatively blocked: how modern information overload stops us feeling inspired

We now consume more information in a day than we used to in a year, and 80% of global workers now experience information overload. 76% report that this causes daily stress and anxiety.

What does this do to our creativity, our ability to access inspiration within ourselves?

There’s another clue in the fact that human attention span on screens dropped from 2.5 minutes in 2004, to 47 seconds in 2025. Imagine how much our capacity to be present is being impacted. If we’re constantly switching focus, how can we possibly feel inspired, able to spend enough time mulling over new ideas or to problem-solve effectively?

One of my creativity workshops from 2024

In theory, everything should be easier now there are more tools and resources than ever to help with problem-solving and idea generation...but really, that's the problem isn't it.

Outsourcing our creativity to technology just leads to feeling even *more* blocked and uninspired, if you ask me, as it ruins our ability to apply critical thinking and consult our own inner voice.

We could have a million ideas suggested to us in mere minutes, at the touch of a button, and it only ends up being a bigger headache to try and decide on the right one.

In many of my events and creativity workshops, I support people in connecting with their own innate creativity. Through body-awareness meditations, breathing practices and somatic enquiry, I love seeing people start to realise their own creative potential. They often surprise themselves with the new ideas that become available to them, the answers that suddenly become clear and, yes, the beautiful drawings, paintings or pieces of writing that are conjured from their own imagination. (Read more about that from one of my 2026 retreat days.)

I’ve also worked 1:1 with musicians, poets and artists who have found that somatic therapy naturally reconnects them with their creativity, from a place of newfound ease and acceptance in their body. Their urge to play, write and create, and ability to hear what their creative mind communicates, is revived from being with bodily sensations, safely revisiting past experiences that caused them to shut down creatively, and allowing themselves to gently move through their emotions.

We can’t create from a place of restriction, but we also can’t force tension away, willing new ideas to form by sheer force. It’s actually much simpler than that, through curious, surrendered attention to the present moment, and compassion for what we notice arising in ourselves.

We start to feel more settled in our bodies when we bring kindness and acceptance to what’s here, asking for our acknowledgement, noticing our breath and giving space to emotions, awareness of repetitive thoughts and limiting beliefs. And then, as if by magic (genuinely, I love seeing it happen), those creative blocks start to naturally shift and we nurture new inspiration intuitively.

I'm running a *free online workshop* that will help with this. If you’ve been feeling a bit flat and uninspired, it will help you come back to yourself and embody more creative flow.

When you feel more grounded in your body, with a regulated nervous system, more clarity of mind and the ability to connect with what lights you up, new ideas have a funny way of showing up all on their own.

Sign up to the free workshop.

Drop me an email if you’d like to chat about how I can support with embodied creativity through somatic therapy, breathwork or events.

Becky x