There are seasons when creativity feels just out of reach. Maybe you’ve been in one lately—the kind where you long to create something, anything, but feel stuck or uninspired. It’s a familiar space, especially in the wake of loss, transition, or simply the weight of everyday life.

Since moving into a smaller home, I’ve noticed this disconnection in myself. In my old house, I had an art room—a sacred space where unfinished paintings could live for weeks without pressure to be cleaned up. I could leave brushes in water, layers half-dried on canvas, and know I could return at any time. Without that space now, I haven’t yet found my rhythm. But something inside me has been stirring—a quiet craving to reconnect with my creative self.

So I started small. I started with words.

Poetry has become a gentle way back in. Writing helps me examine my inner landscape with curiosity, to turn emotions into images and sensations. Some days the words pour out like a rushing stream; other days, I scrape together a few lines that feel clumsy and half-formed. But I keep showing up. The more I write, the more open I feel—like I’m clearing a channel. And as my writing flows, I notice my desire growing to create in other ways, too: painting, cooking, gardening, dancing, making nature mandalas. It’s as if once I start pedaling the creative bike, the miles become easier.

What I’ve learned again and again is this: creativity isn’t a talent—it’s a way of being. It’s not something you either have or don’t. It’s something you cultivate through presence, permission, and practice.

The Disconnection From Our Creative Self

So why do so many of us feel creatively blocked?

Often, it’s because life has pulled us away from the tender center of our emotional truth. When we’re grieving, overwhelmed, or under pressure, we instinctively push our feelings aside. Not because we’re unwilling to feel them—but because they’re simply too much in the moment. Over time, though, those suppressed feelings start to form blocks inside us—energetic dams that not only disconnect us from our emotions, but from our creativity, our joy, our sense of play.

School doesn’t help. For many of us, creativity was something graded, evaluated, or judged. If you weren’t good at drawing or writing or singing in the “right” way, you learned quickly to stop trying. But creativity was never meant to be perfect. It was never meant to be impressive. It was meant to be expressed.

You are a creative being by birthright.

Even if no one else ever sees what you create, your expression matters. Right now, my own walls are adorned with paintings I’ve made over the years. They aren’t masterpieces by anyone’s standards—but they mean something to me. I hang them not because I believe they’re worthy of praise, but because they remind me that I am worthy of expression. They remind me that I deserve to create, just for the sake of creating.

When we cut ourselves off from our creativity, we’re also often cutting ourselves off from our sensuality, our pleasure, and our emotional freedom. This is where the second chakra—Svadhisthana—comes into play.

Creativity and the Second Chakra

The second chakra, located in the pelvis just below the navel, governs creativity, sensuality, pleasure, emotions, and flow. Its element is water, and like water, its gifts arise when we allow movement, softness, and release. When Svadhisthana is balanced, we feel inspired, emotionally connected, and expressive. But when it’s blocked—often due to trauma, shame, grief, or emotional suppression—we may feel numb, creatively stuck, disconnected from joy, or overly attached to unhealthy forms of pleasure.

Signs of imbalance might include:

• Mood swings or emotional instability

• Fear of intimacy or difficulty with vulnerability

• Creative blocks or lack of inspiration

• Guilt or shame around pleasure or sexuality

• Addictive behaviors or escapism

• Physical issues like lower back pain, hip tightness, or reproductive imbalances

Grief, loss, and stress can all stagnate energy in the sacral chakra. And yet—creativity can help reawaken it. Even the smallest creative act, when done with presence and intention, can restore movement. Creativity in this chakra is not about producing something “good.” It’s energy in motion. It’s permission to feel again.

Redefining What Creativity Looks Like

We often think of creativity in narrow terms—painting, writing, music. But creativity is so much more expansive and accessible than that. It lives in our everyday choices and gestures. It shows up when we cook a meal with intuition instead of a recipe. When we arrange flowers, or dance in the kitchen, or sing along to a song in the car. It’s there when we create a playlist to match our mood, journal with colored pens, or choose clothing that makes us feel free.

Creativity might look like building a garden bed, finger painting with your child, or sculpting something from clay or soil. It might be the moment you draw shapes in the sand with a stick and don’t care if they’re washed away in five minutes.

To be creative is to be curious. To follow the thread of what wants to be expressed—even if it doesn’t make sense yet.

Creativity as Healing and Liberation

When we reconnect with our creativity, we reconnect with sensation, movement, and pleasure—all the things that often go dormant during grief, trauma, or burnout. That’s why this work matters. It’s not frivolous. It’s not extra.

It’s liberation.

Creativity helps us move what’s been stuck. It brings our energy back online. It allows us to take back agency over our own healing. It doesn’t require explanation or logic—it only asks for our presence and willingness. It is one of the most beautiful and accessible tools we have for feeling fully alive again.

A Practice: Meeting Your Inner Artist

Here’s a simple invitation to reconnect with your creative self:

Close your eyes. Take a few slow breaths. Then imagine your inner artist—not as someone who performs or perfects, but as someone who plays. What do they look like? What textures, colors, or sounds surround them? What are they curious about? What do they need to feel safe enough to create?

Once you’ve met them, create something small in their honor. A doodle. A dance. A few lines in your journal. A tiny altar of found objects. A playlist that mirrors your mood.

Let it be messy. Let it be real. Let it be enough.

You Were Never Not Creative

You don’t need to “get better” at art to be worthy of expression. You don’t need to prove your creativity to anyone—not even to yourself. It’s already within you, waiting to be remembered.

Creativity isn’t something we earn. It’s something we return to.

So start where you are. Schedule just one to three hours per week for creative exploration. Put it on your calendar like you would any important meeting—because it is important. You’re not just making art; you’re making time for your soul to speak.

Let it be a full afternoon of painting or a ten-minute dance break between tasks. Write a poem. Sketch in the margins. Cook a meal intuitively, just for the pleasure of it. Rearrange a corner of your home. Create a crystal grid. Build a playlist that reflects your inner world. Craft a nature mandala with leaves and stones. Sing, sculpt, sew, bead, bake, or simply let your hands move without a plan.

The medium doesn’t matter. What matters is that you show up.

Even small, imperfect acts of creation can help you reclaim your energy, reconnect to your inner flow, and feel more alive.

You are already the artist. Now is the time to remember her. And to give her space to create.