Art-making is different. It’s about getting ‘into the zone’ in your mind and letting it happen. Making art is a private experience. It’s not at all like speaking or moving around. It starts inside first, then comes out as it’s supposed to - just for you. If you think about it, making art is very different than talking.
Today it is common to hear people say “relapse is part of the process.” In reality relapse is serious - deadly serious. In fact, people who relapse quickly return to the life they led in active addiction with all its risks intact. Many never return to clean time or sobriety or do so after a long period of increasingly dangerous consequences in life and in health. Time is of the essence.