Hm... Do you have an answer to that question? Please post in comment section below!
My gander is that CW is holistic ~ in order for one part of the whole to be well, all parts must be well.
So CW encompasses all areas of everyday life ~ from personal health and finance to relationships to fitness to communities and systems.
Hmm, I never thought of it this way. I think a lot of it has to do with figuring out what's really important to you and then making it a priority (even when it's difficult).
ReplyDeleteOf course it's hard to make good decisions when you're tired or stressed over bills or too busy to think things through, so what you said about it being holistic. Now if only I could figure out how to balance out all of those things!
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ReplyDeleteThis is such an interesting (never talked about) aspect of expression. I was inspired to see you take this on. It reminded me of my first semester in grad school and I was asked to read a lot of writers who were afflicted with the drink. I read about these men who had terrible fathers, terrible families, terrible habits of drinking and doing drugs. Not to sounds righteous, but I didn't see myself there. I drink once in awhile and I am not perfect, but I am not abusive and destructive because of this. In the end, I was so angry that I had to steep myself in this lore of being broken to create good writing that I lost it. I understand some great writers had issues and I know that their work came from being around those issues.
Now, in this day and age, I feel like we have read about the abuse. I think it came to a head in the book-of-the-month debacle and A Million Little Pieces. Yeah, we are all a little screwed up - but why aren't we making art that pulls us up rather than keeps us down? We may have to trend into these dark issues, but only as a means to shape a greater artistic perspective.
Sorry about the ramble.
Be well.
RON
To me, creative wellness happens when we have a front row view to who we really are inside ourselves - an understanding of our values and what makes us tick. When we know ourselves and are comfortable in our own skins, it frees us to tap into our creativity whether its in an "artsy" kind of way or in our professional dealings. It's knowing how to connect those dots together, meld the left and right brains, and produce something uniquely our own. That can happen in small ways or big ones.
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