When You Don’t Practice, You Suffer

My deeper understanding is that artists are people who are profoundly compelled to make their creative work, and when they are distanced from their practice, their life quality suffers. Making their work is a way to take care of themselves, communicate, process information, engage a spiritual interior, or strengthen their relationship to themselves and others. - Beth Pickens

The above quote from Make Your Art No Matter What resonates. My writing is an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual practice.