I’ve had my fair share of mortifying moments, but I’d never heard the term creative mortification until I happened upon it in author Peggy Orenstein’s newest book, Unraveling. While others were making ...

Creative mortification would be if someone says your art sucks, so you stop pursuing a career in the arts altogether. Or if you quit your job after that brainstorming session because you thought you ...

VATICAN CITY-- Reacting to a report that Pope John Paul II practiced self-mortification, including flagellation, experts in spirituality said ascetical practices are part of the Christian tradition, ...

Some years ago, I had an amusing albeit humiliating experience when I gave a meditation to a group I considered to be educated and familiar with religious terms. I was talking about mortification.

“Worldlings go in search of sensual gratifications,” writes Saint Alphonsus de Ligouri, founder of the Redemptorist congregation, “but the followers of Christ seek only corporal austerities.” And so ...

You’re nervous. You’ve been writing and revising this poem for a week. You finally show it to your husband, and he dismisses it with a curt, “Meh.” You’ve been taking dance lessons for the past month ...

Have you ever suffered creative mortification? Coined by educator Ronald Beghetto, the term describes losing your willingness to pursue a creative avenue following a negative outcome. Maybe you gave ...