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21 Feb 2025
Q&A

Gabriel K

Creativity, money, endings, and precarity: what are your learnings or messages?

Hi, Changing Realities.

Yeah, I'd like to talk about the creative aspect. It's been so important to me. It's been an opportunity in the workshops, and I've actually carried it on myself, to be able to just express what I'm feeling or not, feel anything, and just switch off a little bit for a while. And just think about myself and just kind of leave everything aside. It is little bit of the hot word, isn't it? Self-care. I think, as a single mom with two SEND children and health issues myself, that I'm low on the list below the cap.

So, yeah, it's really important. It has helped me have a little outlet, and it sometimes even helps me focus. If I'm not thinking of it, I actually come up with solutions to things, or think about things in a different way. As well for the Big Issue that was great, talking to me about it - that was a great thing. So, I just think it really does push you as to what is possible to be achieved. Bye.

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