Maciej Zatorski invited me to create an illustration for Displate’s marketplace with complete creative freedom, so I decided to express one of the most powerful spiritual processes of my life that led me to become self-disciplined and experience a profound life change regarding my health. Here is the story:
At the end of 2022, I returned from a long trip through other countries, having lost my sense of home, while I became very sick. The antibiotics I took to heal myself severely damaged my intestinal flora, so I had to start eating in a way that would rebuild it from scratch. In the same period, I ended a relationship in which I recognized my childhood wounds through anxiety crises, leaving me in deep chaos of my body, emotions, mind, and roots. Because of this, I decided to live in the woods throughout 2023, focusing entirely on healing. I went through the mourning of those losses, until I discovered the power of self-discipline as a way to be reborn from that experience.
Through this work, I wanted to share my process and emotions of becoming self-disciplined, and raise awareness of the importance of this magnificent tool of empowerment with others, as my best way of giving this life recommendation and encouraging them to try it for themselves.
I consider self-discipline fundamental, and I want to make a distinction between “discipline”, which is about obeying another person’s desires, and “self-discipline”, which is about creating your life in your own way, recognizing what is healthy for you, and respecting your own freedom and self-knowledge. It is a way to accept death in terms of training the value of time with your body. It is a way to live in the habit of valuable present actions for a purpose, in your own healthy rhythm. It is also a safety net where you can fall. It is a work of self-esteem in which you select the things that nourish you and where you can feel truly connected: being, doing, and sharing things that you sincerely believe can create empowerment and freedom for yourself and others. It is about taking all of that and creating habits and routines, being concrete, being real about what you believe. It is one of the best commitments you can make to yourself to take charge of life and its focused expansion.
Client: Displate
Creative advisors: Maciej Zatorski and Cezary Neugebauer