✨ The Anti-Blocked Artist Club I WK 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength
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The episode discusses how grief and loss affect creativity and the importance of staying connected to oneself during difficult times.
This week, our focus was really about grief and how it shows up in the creative life, especially when things do not unfold the way you imagined they would. How important it is to know that loss and disappointment can interrupt your relationship with your creativity, but they can also become moments of redirection when you understand how to stay connected to yourself while moving through them. We talked through what it actually looks like to pivot when something hurts, and how strength is rebuilt by staying present with pain instead of letting it shut you down or pull you away from yourself. Then there’s how criticism, loss, and unmet expectations can impact artists in very different ways , and why discernment and small, intentional steps matter when it comes to having sustainable creative momentum over time. What’s here makes sense on its own, but there’s another layer underneath it where beauty, neuroscience, and metaphysics start doing something more interesting. The Dark Divines is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my art, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 1. Survival This essay really brought up the importance of having a healthy ego…
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