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I mean, I have done enough business, spiritual, personal development, and marketing courses to get myself through this uncertain period – right?
The fear that people started to express with sudden changes to everyday life, with loss of work and being at home, I had already experienced in the past year with my own experience of anxiety that had arisen from a panic attack. That had left me assessing my everyday life and stress levels. Sometimes it limited me to not leaving home for extensive periods at a time. This meant saying no to work that felt overbearing, and no to driving long distances from home. But in turn I was learning new ways to do things and living at a much slower pace.
I started offering life-drawing sessions online via Zoom, to drawers from anywhere in the world. People who haven’t drawn for years started coming out of the interweb woodwork.
Art – yes, this is enough; this is necessary.
I started drawing again too, and so many other people in my networks started to reach out and express their interest in drawing. It has been a creative time for me. I think that life-drawing has been revolutionised and made accessible to more people.
It's also gratifying that doing all those workshops – which cost me lots of money, and encouraged me to follow what I love – is paying off.
But the best thing about it is that it’s all happening for me in a focused and yet spontaneous way. I'm allowing life to surprise me – and it's proving to be a the perfect antidote to anxiety.
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