How to Harness Creative Expression: Your Power Play Against Grief

Can creative expression help you heal? Learn ways it can, and ideas to get you started. Grieving sister and aging pet owner Sarah shares "How to Say Goodbye."  https://bit.ly/3Jn388H

Why Can Expressing Yourself Creatively Help with Grief?

When someone you love dies, the world doesn’t end, even though it feels like it should. When your grief feels too big to carry and too invisible to speak about, there’s something quietly revolutionary about picking up a pen, a paintbrush, a guitar, or a pair of scissors and trying to make something. Not because it fixes anything. But because it helps you survive.

How to Say Goodbye

We also have guest Sarah Walt Weaver, who lost her older sister share a short essay "How to Say Goodbye." Sarah has also found a creative outlet with her comic Adventures with Vrah which often deals with her experience of grief and the aftermath of her sister's death.

In this Episode:

• 00:22 - Ode to White Castle
• 04:20 - Road trip to Kansas, Home of White Castle
• 05:54 - How Creative Expression Can Help with Grief
• 09:06 - Not Artistic? Tips on How to Use AI Art Generation to Turn Raw Emotions into Visual Form
• 14:39 - How to Say Goodbye, by Sarah Walt Weaver
• 19:14 - Outro

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