Channeling Grief Through Creativity (Because Talking Isn't Always Enough)

I'm no grief expert but just like many of us, I've had my fair share of it and it's one of the most challenging emotions I think most of us experience.

Because there's often no rhyme or reason to it and it very much operates on its own timeline - like all emotions, really.

But grief is a journey, with non-linear stages, that seems to crack us open and re-shape our insides......and can also pop up at the most inconvenient times lol.

Grief can feel so big and so amorphous sometimes that much like anger, it needs extra space and extra witnessing.

And we don't exactly live in a society that has any idea what to do with challenging emotions, ESPECIALLY grief. We tend to avoid that one like the plague.

This is where my - our - creative practice can be so critical and healing.

Using our creativity as a way to not only channel challenging emotions like grief but also maybe even heal them in ways we can't always access with our thinking or even our feeling body.

Creativity is amazing in that way. It has a life and magic all on its own that's both a part of us and completely detached from us.
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So here are some questions I am asking myself this week:

• What is my relationship to grief?

• Do I have any fears around experiencing grief? What are they?

• What am I grieving right here and now?

• What *type* of play or creativity could feel restorative to something I am grieving right now?

• What action could I take towards making that a reality for myself?

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