"I'm Sorry But We Have To Let You Go." How The Creative Mind Moves Past Loss.

Erik Proulx never saw it coming. I suppose no one really does. Not really. One minute, he was a writer in the creative department at Arnold in Boston, one of the top advertising agencies in the country. Next thing, the housing bubble burst, a bunch of banks got sideways, and boom. Just like that, the great recession of 2008 was born. And a whole lot of…