I didn’t start keeping an art journal because I wanted to be creative. I did it because I was searching for a way to metabolize what I was witnessing as a naive Montana girl experiencing systemic injustice for the first time as a Nurse in New Orleans.

Emotional Courage: Feeling Your Feelings in Difficult Times

There has never been a more important time for humans to feel their feelings.

Not think about them. Not analyze them. Not manage, suppress, or transcend them.

Feel them — as a body.

The new year wasn’t all that long ago. So let’s check in—how are your New Year’s resolutions going?

It’s been a long time since I’ve set New Year’s resolutions. They never stuck for me. And when they didn’t stick, I felt upset with myself. That frustration often turned into resentment and defeat—which never made for good habit creation.

Here’s the catch: many of these goals sound healthy on the surface, but they can be surprisingly unkind to our bodies and unrealistic for real life. Often, these resolutions don’t take into account what’s actually going on inside the body.