How has my creativity impacted my recovery? My creativity informs my recovery. Given free rein, creativity can be a tool to process events of my life. It gives me joy. Allowing my creativity a voice creates my life, co-creates it and re-creates it. It frees me to walk my own unique path of recovery.
I started drinking at 13. Hiding in my room, I invented a world with a rapidograph pen and watercolors, then attended art school in New York city but drinking and drugs took precedence. I worshiped famous drunken artists that justified my lifestyle. Moving to Colorado, I began a career in commercial art but heavy drinking…
April Artist of the Month at SRC. Before recovery, creativity always felt vulnerable, like I was doing something that wasn’t allowed. When I shot photos, I felt free and I thought I didn’t deserve it. I felt guilty. In recovery I have learned that creativity is essential to my well-being. When I shoot photos I…
