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When couples grieve creative loss differently after trauma

My partner and I both lost our creative spark after our miscarriage, but she's thrown herself into painting again while I can barely look at the half-finished novel I was writing when it happened. We're trying to support each other but I think my creative paralysis is making her feel guilty about her breakthrough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are navigating the tender territory where grief either opens or closes the creative channels, and the difference in their responses is creating distance.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief and creativity — making from loss?”

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