Creativity as Medicine: One Doctor’s Journey Back to Colour

There was a time in my medical career when everything felt pared back to essentials, the focus was getting through each day. Medicine asked so much of me that the parts of myself that loved colour, beauty, and imagination slipped into the background. I didn’t even notice it happening. Many doctors don’t.

But years later, something unexpected called me home.

A handful of flowers.

The ritual of arranging stems.

The way colour softened the edges of my day.