My passions are also something that take me away from negative feelings but then I get into a spiral of worrying that I am simply using my passions to avoid confronting what is 'really' going on behind those negative feelings instead of accepting that that energy and productivity is good in and of itself.
I reckon if your negative feelings don't stop you from pursuing your passions you must be doing something right! Of course some people bury their problems with work and suffer greatly for it, but I think in a lot of cases we make small problems into huge ones by fixating on them at the expense of doing what we love. We're never going to completely solve every deep, dark problem we have but the main thing is to be functioning. I have a cluster of negative core beliefs around creative work that often get in the way of my wanting to produce or release music at all, and that's when I know it's time to step in and sort things out.
My passions are also something that take me away from negative feelings but then I get into a spiral of worrying that I am simply using my passions to avoid confronting what is 'really' going on behind those negative feelings instead of accepting that that energy and productivity is good in and of itself.
I reckon if your negative feelings don't stop you from pursuing your passions you must be doing something right! Of course some people bury their problems with work and suffer greatly for it, but I think in a lot of cases we make small problems into huge ones by fixating on them at the expense of doing what we love. We're never going to completely solve every deep, dark problem we have but the main thing is to be functioning. I have a cluster of negative core beliefs around creative work that often get in the way of my wanting to produce or release music at all, and that's when I know it's time to step in and sort things out.