Tag: creative healing

Some seasons just ask us to take a break. Creativity, like anything alive, can’t keep thriving if we’re always pushing it, stretching it, or measuring it against some invisible checklist. As the year winds down, it’s the perfect excuse to step back, notice the rhythms you’ve been running on, and give yourself a proper moment of rest.  Before 2026 rolls around, it’s worth looking at what your creativity has carried with it this year: the projects you poured yourself into, the ideas that demanded all your attention, the things that lifted…

You didn’t pick up a paintbrush, pen, or camera because life was picture-perfect. You picked it up because something inside you needed out. Maybe it was frustration, perhaps heartbreak, maybe that low hum of anxiety that never seems to shut up. Whatever it was, you knew keeping it bottled in wasn’t an option. So you made. And that act of making, messy as it was, started to stitch you back together in ways you didn’t expect. Here’s the funny thing: you probably weren’t trying to heal at first. You were just…