Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you. . . Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess. . . Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.