I Don't Create to Be Understood~Only to Be Free
- Michele Renee

- Jul 11, 2025
- 2 min read
✨ Set It Free: The Sacred Process of Expression ✨
My expressions are many. 🌪️
Every day, I’m searching for the next outlet the next path my current feeling, truth, or storm can escape through. Each expression has a life of its own, a need to be seen, heard, or simply released.

✨Expressions are unique.
They stem from experiences only I could have lived, formed in the privacy of my own consciousness. Unless someone has existed within my soul, they cannot fully comprehend what shaped these words, these images, these thoughts.

🕊️ Sometimes, creating feels like I’m opening a cage and releasing a dozen wild birds.

Other times, I can’t quite explain what I’m letting go of… I just feel something leave me. And in that moment, I know I’ll never be quite the same again.
It’s not always beautiful. Some days I wish I could just stop, stop feeling so much, stop thinking so deeply. And on those days, I hate that I can’t. 😞

But hindsight whispers something powerful:
🛤️ The journey is the gift. Not the outcome.
In the journey, I find what I truly need.

Some days, I’m swimming in frustration, anger, denial and I have to force myself to keep going. Other days, there’s that magical aha moment the kind that pulls me into the process and refuses to let me go.
I share my expressions with anyone who chooses to notice.
Why? Because the process is strong. It works.
It works through pain, confusion, healing, and truth. It teaches me that even when I don’t understand everything about myself I'm still allowed to try.
By working through uncomfortable feelings, we gain understanding of behavior, of patterns, of buried wounds.
And I believe, if someone out there relates to just one piece of what I’ve released, they can begin to understand their own.
My expressions whether in words, pictures, blogs, or videos belong to no one.
Because no one else walked with the emotions that created them.
But… they also belong to everyone. Because I set them free. 🎈

I made the choice to no longer keep them caged.
I share them in hopes that you might find your own truth, your own story, tucked inside mine.
Because maybe, just maybe we’re all a little more alike than we realize. 💭
🖋️The process? It’s intimate. Far more than any finished product will ever show.
Sometimes that final result speaks for itself.
Other times, it’s ignored by the world by people too afraid to think, feel, or look deeper. And that’s okay.

Because in the end…
I do it for me.
To keep my soul free. 💫




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