Sometimes thoughts and feelings are hard to verbalize or aren't easily shared out loud. Creativity has many benefits, and expressing feelings honestly, allows you to become self-aware and to better deal with them rather than deny them. Take a moment to work on a few of these prompts. Therapeutic activities can be shown through several different mediums, whether it’s with a pen, paintbrush or choreographing a dance, see how you feel after.
- Share your quarantine experience through poetry, journaling or art.
- How do you hope the world will change?
- How will you look back on this in 10, 20, 30 years?
- What’s the happiest thing you’ve experienced in the past three weeks?
- Show the perspective of nature or inanimate objects during quarantine.
- Besides school, what cancellation or closure has been the hardest for you so far?
- If you could be quarantined anywhere, where would you be?
- What makes you feel worried?
- What makes you feel hopeful?
- List new hobbies you may want to try.
- Design a dream cake to bake.
- What are you thankful for right now?