Healing Day 10: Create Something, Anything!
Have self-empathy and mirror yourself by creating!
I started writing on Medium at my most challenging time. Medium was part of my therapies, a space to be creative and express it. I wrote this poem in those times. I am forever grateful to Elle How for resonating with me who I have never met. It was a time when I found solace and peace by being away from people who I had loved all my life. You will know what I mean when you would get there.
When there is emotion or charge in you, creating something, anything, can help release that energy. Write it out, say it out, draw it, paint it, and remove it. Contained negative energy can do you harm.
You are showing yourself empathy for yourself. There are various words like self-love, self-compassion, and self-care…but I would use self-empathy, treating yourself like someone else in a way, and trying to understand yourself.
The truth is, sometimes, you may not even understand why you have done something as if you are someone else!
We sometimes express, “I lost myself.” You might have lost yourself! How could that be? Aren’t you ‘you’?
We also sometimes say, “I don’t know what I was thinking at the time!”.
