two questions to ask yourself when you’re overwhelmed (then paint it out)

When the world feels loud and my nervous system is fried… I turn inward.

To my art journal.

Not the to-do list. Not the dishes. Not the scroll hole.

Just me, some watercolors, and whatever emotions are trying to scream their way out of my body.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek of my process. It starts with oracle cards and a pendulum (because of course it does😉), then I dive straight into the real stuff: messy, raw, soul-led journaling.

And before the paint hits the page, I ask myself two things:

🤍 What is mine to carry today, and what can I release?

🤍 Where can I invite more softness, more slowness, more breath?

✨ Try journaling your answers before you start your creative work, or use them in your next creative ritual and see what wisdom unfolds. (Also? Ask yourself these before you’re elbow-deep in snacks or alphabetizing the spice rack out of pure avoidance LOL).

Because let’s be honest…sometimes it’s not just the everyday juggle that weighs on us.
It’s the collective heaviness, the ache of things we don’t have words for, the energetic noise we silently absorb.

And in those moments, I don’t push. I paint.

This spread brought me back to the four Creative Frequencies that help me recalibrate when motherhood, emotions, and everything else feels like too much:


✨ Painting


✨ Energy


✨ Intuition


✨ Sacred Symbols

And when I stepped back at the end… there it was. The message “different path” shined its light within the crown.
It was like my inner knowing whispered,
“You don’t have to carry it all. You get to choose peace.”

This is why I return to art.
It’s how I release the weight, reset my nervous system, and reconnect to what matters.
I’m curious, how do you come back to yourself when the world feels heavy?

💖🫶🏼xo-dez