Need for To be heard

Strategies:

Play an instrument

Bang a piano or strum a guitar until you've expressed all you can with it. Any instrument will do. Let the universe hear you.

Write

I like to get some kind of words on a page. Even if it's garbage I find the process can help.

View previous things you've written or made

To no one's surprise I often understand myself better than anyone else. Sometimes in a crisis I'll read something I wrote a month ago and think "yes that's exactly it!" - like past me is giving empathy to future me.

Make art

Whatever kind. A scribble, a drawing, a painting, a piece of music.

Play a video game

There is such a wide diversity of video games out there. Calming exploratory games, puzzle games, combat, story, single or multiplayer, etc. Once I get in touch with the need that is alive in me it’s fun to look for a game or game genre that might tend specifically to that.

Sing

Find a private place to sing as loud as you’re comfortable. Sing with your favorite song in the car or if you play an instrument you could play a song you know. Search for a hymn online and sing that.

Read a poem you like aloud

Try a search online like poets.org. Search a key word related to what you’re experiencing right now. Find a poem you’re relating to and in the privacy of your room or car or closet (wherever you feel comfortable) and read the poem aloud to yourself. Let it gives you words in a time when you have none. Experience the validation that this artist understands also how you might be feeling right now and sees it as valid too.

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