Sam Hales

And this one, I had a really big breakup with my partner.

We were together for 10 years.

I quit Confidence Man as well.

There was a lot of moving parts and I took a long time to process everything.

There was a lot of things I was just trying to tour and just like being, you know, just trying not to, not to really face my sadness for a while.

So that only can last so long.

And then I got writer's block because of all this inner turmoil.

And that was a very foreign concept to me.

I was like, no way it's actually happened.

Like I can't write.

Yeah.

It's actually happened.

And that's all I've ever done for 15 years.

Like every day, nine to five, Monday to Friday, I write.

And then when it couldn't happen, it was really difficult for me.

So I ended up doing The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.

And it unlocked everything.

And really, it kind of sounds obvious now, but what I had to do was process everything.

these things that were going on inside me, some sadness, some hope, all kinds of feelings that I had to process and actually face and be responsible for.

In that process, I got unblocked, which was the best feeling ever, like wild.