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When creative expression after loss feels destructive

I started painting again after my brother's overdose but every canvas turns dark and violent and I don't know if this is healing or just more damage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The creative impulse becomes a battleground between processing pain and perpetuating it.

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Worth thinking about

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

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