when I was going through a really bad breakup in college I went home to my parents’ house and basically just cried in bed for days at a certain point my dad came into my room and was like okay get dressed we’re getting out of the house and this man proceeded to take me on a SIX MILE WALK lol we literally just walked and talked for 6 miles I remember that day fundamentally changing something in my brain after that I started walking 3-4 miles almost every day, usually without headphones and weirdly enough, that period of my life became one of my most creatively expansive I started making small tik tok vlogs, collages, writing on twitter I had some of my biggest creative breakthroughs opportunities started showing up that eventually led me to meeting my mentor looking back I think I was learning how to move energy through my body instead of just sitting inside of it grief and sadness are insanely energetically charged emotions I didn’t need to intellectualize every feeling or spend hours trying to figure out WHY I felt the way I did I literally just needed to walk no headphones, no distraction, no destination just letting my body carry all of that energy somewhere until my mind had enough space to make something new out of it