Simple Drawing Practices for Emotional Wellness and Self-Connection

When life moves quickly, it’s easy to lose touch with how we’re really feeling. Creative expression can help you reconnect—not just with your emotions, but with your sense of balance, joy, and groundedness.

This week, we explored three simple drawing exercises designed to help you pause and tune in. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, scattered, or simply in need of a reset, these practices offer a gentle way back to yourself.

Feeling Overwhelmed? This Visual Balance Exercise Helps

When everything feels off-kilter, it can be helpful to bring your attention to balance—not just in your mind, but on the page.

This simple drawing exercise invites you to explore visual symmetry, space, and shape to create a sense of calm.

Try this:

• Draw two shapes or lines that feel balanced.
• Play with symmetry, weight, or colour to bring the drawing into equilibrium.
• As you work, tune into your body. Do you feel more centred?

Sometimes, creating external balance can help restore internal balance too.

Use This Drawing Trick to Channel More Playfulness

Joy doesn’t always need words. Sometimes, it comes through in movement—in colour, shape, and energy on a page.

This drawing moment is about letting go and letting joy lead.

Try this:

• Pick up a marker or brush pen and move it freely across the page.
• Don’t plan. Let your energy shape each stroke—bold, sweeping lines or tiny colourful bursts.
• Pause and ask yourself: Did joy come through?

This playful exercise is a small but powerful reminder that you can access joy through your body and your creativity.

The Sensory Drawing Trick That Helps You Feel More Grounded

Texture plays an important role in how we feel. Whether it’s soft, rough, or smooth, certain sensations can evoke comfort, energy, or calm.

This drawing exercise invites you to explore those textures in a sensory, hands-on way.

Try this:

• Use shading, crosshatching, or scribbling to draw different textures on a page.
• Gently run your fingers over them.
• Notice: Which textures feel grounding? Which ones feel energizing or soothing?

It’s a quiet, tactile way to check in with your body—and bring yourself back to the present.

Which Feeling Did You Need Most?

Whether you were looking for balance, playfulness, or grounding, these exercises offer a way to meet yourself right where you are. You don’t need a plan or a perfect sketch—just a few moments of attention and intention.

Which one resonated with you this week?

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