Hi Ginger, and everyone!
To answer your question: I decided to post a comment - after reading many posts on many of the topics over the past few months - mainly because you mentioned journaling, and I now have an experience and a resource on that to share that might be of some help or insight to others.
As brief background: I used to keep a diary when I was young, and yet it became an obligation instead of a refuge. Maybe that's why I hesitated to do any journaling for the longest, longest time til recently with this resource, and yet I'm still feeling that resistance instead of it being a release.
But that is why I got his particular book entitled "The Artist's Way", and actually read it far enough in that I could try some exercises, etc. I am completely blocked artistically on creating all the things I envision creating, even though my first career was as an Art Director. But then I gravitated into the law to become an attorney in the area of intellectual property (protecting creative works), and maybe somehow that took away my feeling that it is OK to create just for the sake of it, for the salvation and refuge it may provide. Somehow I think I feel that it isn't "enough" to "just" be creative, or express myself creatively, even though I am literally NOT doing anything with myself otherwise at this point in life. So I'm stuck. With all these ideas, these art supplies, canvases and nothing on them.

Don't know how to break the pattern, and why I can't do it - except as soon as I think about doing something creative, I feel it has to be perfect and I'm immediately defeated. One helpful sentence I did read in this book is: "Thinking is the artist's enemy." ... because we can quickly "think" ourselves out of our ideas, inspirations and inclinations, reducing them to nothing worth pursuing.

Here's to finding a healthy way to get unstuck...so far, no luck, but I'm here, sharing the struggle! Welcome any and all healthy ideas on breaking the conundrum of being stuck, or really kind of "frozen" into a kind of limbo.

Thanks to all who have been there and can share.