“Creative, Courageous and Resilient”

In the last two years, creative expression has played an increasingly large role in both my personal and professional lives. It has helped me process thoughts and emotions relative to what I’ve experienced, what has been happening around me and my hopes for the future. Likewise, it has helped my clients with their own experiences. 

All too often, we dismiss creativity as something that is reserved for others, something that is out of our reach. I am the first to say that I believed that about myself for a long time. 

In a powerful reference to creativity, Brene Brown says:

“Creativity is a function of being human. There are simply people who use their creativity and there are those who don’t. And here’s the really hard news. Unused creativity is not benign. It does not dissipate. It metastasizes. Unused creativity turns into rage, grief, shame and judgment.” (The Power of Vulnerability)

I love this perspective! Creativity is a channel for self-expression. With that in mind, when we shut our creativity down we shut our self-expression off.

As such, expressive arts are a way for us to connect with what’s going on in our inner world and bring it forth. Using a combination of dialogue, writing and visual art, people can maximize self-expression, process the past and present and lay the foundation for the future. 

*In what ways do you access your own creativity? 

*In what ways would you like to explore greater creativity?

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