How to Draw Through Grief

Losing someone you love can be very difficult and painful. Grief is an intense emotional process and entails numerous varying emotions. Everyone grieves in different ways -- there is no right or wrong way to cope with the loss. One very effective strategy to help you through grief, creating art by drawing, can lead you to examine and deal with the overwhelming emotions associated with your loss. Children, especially, find art helpful when grieving.

Things You'll Need

• Drawing Paper
• Pencil
• Colored Pencils

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Instructions

• 1

  Choose a time to draw through your grief when you can be alone and uninterrupted. You may feel powerful emotions while completing artwork.

• 2

  Sit quietly and meditate for a few minutes. This will help you connect with

  emotions that you have probably been trying to ignore. Visualize your predominant emotion.

• 3

  Draw out the emotion you visualized, whether it is grief or some component of grief such as anger. Using whatever medium you want, draw a visual depiction of the emotion.

• 4

  Look at the image when you are done. Do not judge it; just examine it closely to find any hidden meanings. When we are using our creative process, we are not consciously thinking, but our subconscious is always working and helping us heal from the grief.

• 5

  Repeat the drawing process as often as you want. Drawing through grief can be soothing and help to calm anxiety. You can draw other scenarios as well such as your life without your loved one or a memory of your loved one. Be as creative as you want. The drawing is not for anyone else but only meant to help you heal. It does not have to be understandable.