Tag: emotional resilience

Burnout doesn’t always happen because you’re overloaded with work. More often, it builds quietly when you don’t have a system to hold your creative flow together. You jump from project to project, say yes to new ideas, and keep pushing through late nights because that’s what creative drive looks like, right? But over time, the energy that once felt limitless starts to fade. What used to be exciting now feels like another box to check. That’s when you realize it’s not the work that’s the problem, it’s the lack of structure…

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…