Most of us experience some kind of trauma in life.
How does it impact creative people, and how can creative expression help?
Acclaimed actor Patrick Stewart is one of many artists who have been deeply impacted by trauma in early life.
An interview arti…
Life circumstances
Missing or Abandoning Our Creative Fulfillment (Part 2)
[Continued from Part 1]
“The practice of any art isn’t to make a living, it’s to make your soul grow.”
Kurt Vonnegut
To be creative at times feels like an almost effortless flow, but creative work may also require a high level of courage and bo…
Motherhood and creative work
Creative work can be challenging with children in your life. “I’d be in the middle of a sentence and someone needed to go to mall for new shoes, so the sentence would be lost.” That is a quote by Amy Bloom, who has worked as a psychotherapist, taught at Yale University, and is Wesleyan University’s […]
Traumatic Childhood and Creative Adult
“Life without pain isn’t real at all.” Shia LaBeouf Many people have had traumatic childhoods, and are drawn to creative expression as part of their way to deal with it, to heal and regain self esteem. A number of talented actors have suffered traumatic experiences, including Ashley Judd, who was sexually abused; Charlize Theron, as […]
Embracing Even The Pain of the Creative Process – Part 2
Many artists use creative expression to explore and express pain in life, but does creative work itself have to be painful for most of us?
Frida Kahlo painted a series of self-portraits as a depiction of the years of treatment (including orthopedic app…