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Creativity Can Serve As An Outlet For Pain
How I used art and writing to heal after a breakup
I once read somewhere that breakups can serve as extremely emotionally rich time periods.
I get that.
The aftermath of losing one of the closest people to you leaves you open and vulnerable, even if you’d rather not be.
Your fragile structures become exposed without the courtesy of even asking for your consent.
This was certainly true for me. Because I am an expressive personality, I felt the unyielding need to create after my last relationship failed. This prompted me to create an Instagram profile and post my drawings and poems on there.
I have outgrown much of what I created then, and as a result, I removed it from the all-seeing eye of the internet. At the time, however, putting the artistic manifestation of my feelings out into the world seemed to be exactly what I needed.
I felt a visceral need to exhume the pain from within me and make something out of it. Otherwise, it would just sit there, like a perpetual silent scream at the center of my mind.
I’m beyond thankful for creativity. It has been the way that I connect most intimately with myself.
