Managing My Mental Health As A Creative
Where I’ve failed and what I’ve learned
I’ve been creating stories since I was able to write. Over the last twenty-something years, I went from being 7 and putting words down on composition notebooks to twenty-something writing on the Internet. You can find my writing on this blog, on Instagram, in video scripts, or in freelance pieces. You can also find my heart deeply intertwined with every piece of creativity I’ve published.
That’s a hard job for my heart, but also a fulfilling one. My creativity is a heart tug that I have never been able to ignore, whether I was 9 or now 29, and while I’m glad I still haven’t ignored it, it’s been hard.
I’m now aware that following that tug led to many mistakes along the way.
I compromised my own personal well-being for the sake of my creativity (or for the sake of what my creativity wanted to put out into the world). I mistakingly committed to the notion that the work I would put out would do such good or touch so many people that the state I was left in didn’t matter. I was shortsighted in tending to both my creativity and my mental health.
