Overwhelmed
This is one of the few weeks where what I was drawing and what I was feeling were very closely aligned! I bit off more than I could chew this week. I tried to do too much, I didn’t plan in much rest time. For some crazy reason, I thought that I could plow through everything. Sometimes this happens when my forward thinking brain tries to outrun my present brain. So I could actually test out my feelings project in action, kind of like how I used to do it to begin with. The interesting thing is that I am in a groove with drawing every day now, so connecting with my feelings is a project like anything else. What I do notice is that there is a shift, there are moments when I stop and think to myself, What am I feeling right now? In the past I might know I was stressed, but try to address it. These days, I can observe. I can accept more. I don’t always feel like I have to solve anything, I can just Be in it. And this happens when I am Not drawing, which is the interesting thing!
The drawings go in order, Days 1-5. Click on the first drawing and you can click through them all.
Day 1. Woah, am I overwhelmed. I want to do this, I need to do that, I can’t get it all done, I am waking up in the middle of the night and have no paper to write down the things I need to remember! I am also excited about other things but wait, I have too much to do so I can’t think about that right now.
Day 2: Me trying to compartmentalise my overwhelm.
Day 3: A more accurate depiction of how I feel when I am overwhelmed. So many things going around, up and down, in and out. I can sit with my hand on my heart and see it, but that doesn’t really help or change it.
Day 4: Ok, today I am overwhelmed with exciting new projects to do and I don’t know how on earth I’ll ever get to said projects and maybe I should write these down but oh shoot, my ideas notebook is full.
Day 5: This is also how I get hit with overwhelm. Too many thoughts, too many opinions. A cloud starts to come in when I can’t hear myself. The one thing that seems to help this, besides painting, is a walk to the beach and some deep breaths on my favorite bench.
This is the Draw Your FeelingsProject.
Next Feeling: Relieved
Will you join me? This is a year long project, dedicated to connecting to our feelings and ourselves through our art. Send me your drawings, I’d love to see them!