Art as Purification: Grief and the Artistic Process

In this course we go through why and how we grieve and what we can do to ease the challenges that come with grieving. We explore the creation process and how it can help us view our pain with a new perspective.

This course requires your spiritual participation and deep self-reflection. Remember grief is a process and it takes time, similarly so is the creative process. It can be a great partner for your grief. The thing is you will have to face your grief and acknowledge it.

We all have the capacity to grieve, but we do not all heal. Possibly because we don’t know we are grieving, maybe we feel like there is no other way, or that we get stuck in one mindset and never drop it or adopt a new one. What if we are stuck in uncertainty mode or a failure slump. Feelings of grief include or can show up as anger, guilt, depression, feeling alone and misunderstood, or in denial.

We have to open the door to healing, at one point or another. Our pain won’t disappear, emotional wounds heal if we don’t keep going back to them and reliving them.

You have to actively participate in healing by learning to let go. Let go of the painful thoughts, redirect the, relearn, in order for new normal to take hold, so you can move on. Have you ever sighed after not being able to breath a full breathe? It is like that a deep relief, but we need to gently nudge ourselves in the direction.