10/04/2026 Daily Video: Chronic pain? I'm still creating.

This was a REALLY bad 24 hours of chronic pain.

The good news is it gives me the chance to show you that you CAN get out of block even in poor circumstances.

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Rain wants you to have a very good day. Welcome back creatives. Ruthanne Reid, author and stroke survivor, here to help you get out of block and into a daily habit of creation.

I sound a little horsearse right now because this was a massive chronic pain set of time since sometime yesterday. So, I'm I'm a little bit out of it. This is where I get to live out those two rules in front of you, friends. Make one new thing. Let it be all wrong.

Listen, you're not as blocked as you think you are. You do have ideas. You do have things that you can do to your artwork, your sculpture, your anything, but you don't because you know it's what you it's not what you want it to be. I'm keeping the verbal flubs because that's just the state I'm in today.

The fact is that the polished edited artwork comes after the artwork is finished. If we stop because it is not coming out polished and perfect, it's never going to reach that point. You have to give yourself permission to make garbage, to do test runs, to create things that you know are not going to be sold. That's not the point of them.

This is about you building the habit of creation. This is your sign you can create. You can get out of block. You just have to give yourself permission to learn as you go and let your first drafts be crap.

So, creatives, whatever kind of day you're having, hopefully better than mine, this is your sign. sit down and make something. It's going to be all wrong. It's okay. Let it be wrong. You don't have to keep it forever. This is about you getting moving. This is about you going from having a broken leg in a cast to running again. It'll take time and effort, but you can get there.

Sit down with me and together, no matter what kind of day you're having, let's make something new.