“Tell me about when art has been difficult or complicated for your mental health, rather than solely beneficial.”| createmefree.substack.com
How do mental health symptoms impact/alter/inspire creative business/ reception by others?| createmefree.substack.com
How do depression, mania, anxiety, stress, and other conditions affect the ability to create?| createmefree.substack.com
13 creatives respond in their own unique ways about how the mind impacts the creative process ...| createmefree.substack.com
Many people say "art is therapy" but what exactly do people mean by that? Here are some incredible responses.| createmefree.substack.com
How does the content of what you create change because of your mental state, life circumstances, the way that your brain works?| createmefree.substack.com
Themes range from imposter syndrome and feelings of inadequacy to finding liberation and self-acceptance through creative practice| createmefree.substack.com
Sometimes mental or physical health symptoms require a change in medium or in the scale of or approach to a favorite medium ...| createmefree.substack.com
Pain slows time. Sometimes all we can do is slow down with it. Prompts and exercises to create within illness.| createmefree.substack.com
Not all creative work made during illness is seeking resolution. Sometimes it is seeking only to mark the moment, to capture what it feels like to be in the middle of something unnameable.| createmefree.substack.com
4 artist letters, 8 PDF downloads, 12 essays, 1 interview, 7 cross-posts and lots of notes ...| createmefree.substack.com
Instead of demanding a huge surge of energy for a major project, micro-creative acts (a quick sketch, a few lines of poetry, a spontaneous melody) offer gentle, consistent stimulation.| createmefree.substack.com
We talk so much about creative output, we can forget that creative being is something we carry even when the materials are untouched.| createmefree.substack.com
More than thirty inspiring images of various styles of found poetry from some of the participants in this exchange| createmefree.substack.com
Kathryn Vercillo In Conversation with Marie K. Lee and Jen LaMastra| createmefree.substack.com
What this project was and why it is one of the projects I'm most proud of even years later| createmefree.substack.com
If you miss a day, skip a week, or scrap a project, that does not erase you as an artist.| createmefree.substack.com
Your body is not lying. If the room makes you anxious, dissociated, or fatigued, that is data. Your brain may tell you to push through. Your body already knows better.| createmefree.substack.com
"I have a sensitive palette and like a moodring, it changes depending on mood. It is very therapeutic."| createmefree.substack.com
How to measure creative growth on your own terms, even when your body won't cooperate| createmefree.substack.com
Why creativity sometimes feels flat, and how to gently reconnect with your artistic self| createmefree.substack.com
Redefining resistance, fatigue, and creative inconsistency through a compassionate lens| createmefree.substack.com
An overview of the framework that I use to explore this topic along with examples| createmefree.substack.com
60 Interviews, Organized by Primary Art Form| createmefree.substack.com
A month of exploring art and mental health across an amazing array of Substack pages!| createmefree.substack.com