The Healing Power of Creativity

Creativity, however expressed, has the capacity to save us and guide us to our truest selves

—

Like many (or perhaps most) of us, my childhood family expected me to conform to their idea of what was acceptable. It was a narrow point of view, while there was a much more expansive soul inside me demanding to be heard.

There’s no question in my mind. Creativity saved me.

Thankfully, something in me understood at an early age that I could stay in contact with my authenticity if I expressed myself creatively. So I did. I made up dances, songs, and poems. I painted, worked with clay, and found any other