Episode #118: Eric Maisel

Elle Russ chats with Eric Maisel - the author of 50+ books. His recent books include The Coach’s Way, Why Smart Teens Hurt, Redesign Your Mind, and The Power of Daily Practice. Among his other books are Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, Rethinking Depression, The Van Gogh Blues, and The Future of Mental Health. He has sold hundreds of thousands of books over a variety of titles and actively markets his books through his personal newsletters, his blogs for Psychology Today, The Good Men Project, and Fine Art America, and through blog tours, conference appearances, and other marketing strategies. In late 2023, a new edition of Why Smart People Hurt will appear, and in 2024 Parents Who Bully will appear. Also happening in 2023 is a new Creativity Coach Certificate and Diploma Program, which Dr. Maisel has created and designed in collaboration with Noble Manhattan Coaching, the world’s leading life and corporate coach training company. Dr. Maisel writes the “Rethinking Mental Health” blog for Psychology Today, with 3,000,000 + views, and is the creator and lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. He has created a series of wellness journals (90 Days of Hope, 90 Days of Inner Peace, etc.) and produced a line of webinars on subjects like The Art of Creativity Coaching and Mastering Creative Anxiety. A retired family therapist and active creativity coach, Dr. Maisel provides workshops, webinars, and keynotes nationally and internationally, trains creativity coaches, and facilitates support groups for writers. He has taken his Deep Writing workshop to London, Paris, Rome, Prague, Dublin, New York, San Francisco, the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute, the Kripalu Yoga and Retreat Center, and many other destinations worldwide. Dr. Maisel, who maintains an active, worldwide creativity coaching practice, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He can be visited at http://www.ericmaisel.com    SELECTED LINKS: https://www.elleruss.com/ http://www.ericmaisel.com