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Self-Care for Creatives Is Survival: Survival for Creatives Is Self-Care
A Premium Weird Circular Post that's Chock-full of Ways to Stay Alive in a Terrible Time
Holly Lyn Walrath
January 30, 2026
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
The first title I had for this post was “Everything is awful, but I keep coming back to writing.” And while that’s true, I’m spending less time writing these days than ever. I’m spending a lot of time on self-care, and it is very hard not to let that time feel wasted. But what I’ve realized is that I have to take care of myself or I can’t create.
As humans living in a technological society where our attention is constantly being divided and demanded, not to mention a world that’s constantly in turmoil, and a news cycle that’s 90% whiplash, 9% trauma, and less than 1% hopecore, more than ever, we have to find ways to survive.
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