Embracing Creativity in 2025
Are you hoping to embrace creativity in 2025?
There are many benefits to creativity. Think of the mental health benefits of creativity:
Creativity in any form helps us to express our feelings. Whether that’s through writing, singing, dancing, painting, sculpting, etc., creativity gives us an outlet to be freely vulnerable and authentic.
When we don’t give ourselves space to release our feelings, they actually can do more damage to us. Bottling things up can make us anxious, tense, even physically ill. But so many of us do it because we don’t know any other way to deal with our feelings! We don’t want to overreact to something, so we push away any emotional reaction. We don’t want to seem dramatic or weak or scared, so instead of letting ourselves explore those feelings, we just lock them up and hope they don’t bother us anymore.
Finding a creative outlet that works for you is a wonderful, healthy way to unlock those feelings and release them without creating greater conflict in our lives. And giving ourselves the space to release those feelings gives us a chance to explore them. (Read the full blog here.)
But it’s not always easy to be creative, especially in modern life. So many of us already feel too busy and too tired to manage more than our day to day responsibilities, so how can we even make space for creativity?
One way to make more space for creativity is to take a look at where you need more thorough, attentive self care.
For instance, if you’re not getting proper sleep, your daily functioning overall will struggle, and you won’t have any brain power or energy left to be creative! Working on getting quality sleep may not seem like a road to creativity, but being well rested is crucial for good health and cognitive abilities.
Read 6 Tips to Help Improve Your Sleep here.
Another way to make space for creativity is to examine your relationship to perfectionism. Do you feel held back or unable to start new projects because you’re afraid to mess them up? Do you struggle to continue with new hobbies because you struggle to stick through the phase of being bad at something while you learn new skills?
Perfectionism is likely impacting your relationship to creativity!
Learning to resist the compulsion for perfectionism is hard, and can feel very scary. But it is also an amazing step on your journey toward self care! While healing from perfectionism can be a long and arduous journey, there are a few things you can do for yourself to get you started.
Read Is Perfectionism Holding You Back here.
Adjusting a stale routine can also help you reignite your own creativity.
When a routine feels like drudgery, instead of something you’re excited about, it can feel as though joyful moments are few and far between in your daily life. The key is working in new joyful moments into your day, either by altering your current routine, or creating a new one altogether.
Read How to Craft a Joyful Daily Routine here.
And of course, turn to our guide on 5 Ways to Cultivate Creativity:
“You might not consider yourself creative at all, and that’s okay. We tend to think of creativity as something that you either have or don’t, but the truth is that you can become more creative. Cultivating creativity can help boost your self-esteem, improve your work performance, and leave you feeling more fulfilled.
Every person has the ability to be creative, but we don’t always nurture that ability…If you’re interested in cultivating creativity in yourself, there are some steps you can take to encourage that! Here are our top tips to cultivate creativity.