Breaking Boundaries with Creativity: Saheba Singh on Healing, Art, and the Road Less Travelled

The Spark of a Different Path

Not all journeys follow a straight road. Some wind through grief and resilience, others weave art with entrepreneurship, and a few, like Saheba Singh’s, create entirely new intersections.

Saheba Singh is a designer, entrepreneur, performer, and writer. Her debut book All Kinds of Stupid captures love, grief, and healing in a way that feels both intimate and universal. But to call her just a poet or a designer would miss the point. Saheba lives at the crossroads of creativity, where design sketches give way to poetry, poetry spills into performance, and performance circles back into business.

When I sat with her for The AboutHer Show, she reminded me that creativity is not a silo, it is a chain reaction, one art form constantly sparking another.

Her Journey with All Kinds of Stupid

Saheba describes her book as a reflection of both her lived experiences and those she has witnessed in others. Having navigated grief and mental health struggles, she turned those emotions into verse that feels deeply relatable. “Almost everybody I know has been through loss,” she says. “Life is never a constant uphill graph.”

The power of All Kinds of Stupid lies in its simplicity. Readers don’t just consume her words, they see themselves in them. Many even use the book as a journal, scribbling their own responses to the questions she leaves at the end. For Saheba, this interaction is key. Art, she believes, becomes more powerful when it invites others in.

A Creative Life Without Borders

Trained as a designer, Saheba insists no creative expression stands in isolation. Music, design, poetry, art, they all fuel one another. “One is always triggered by another,” she explains. A melody can inspire a sketch, a sketch can influence design, design can evoke performance, and performance can lead back to words.

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Her design practice remains her foundation, but sketching led her to art, and writing became her way of processing healing and adulting. To her, creativity is a living organism—interconnected, fluid, and always evolving.

Redefining Vulnerability

Saheba speaks of vulnerability with both conviction and caution. For her, it begins with truth but never ends there. “Your truth is not yours alone,” she reflects. A story might be hers to tell, but its echoes touch others, family, friends, people who lived it differently.

Being vulnerable, then, is not about oversharing; it is about being honest without hurting. “Be truthful, but be careful,” she says. A delicate toss-up, but one she believes every creator must navigate.

Healing Through Creation

Art is not just a career for Saheba; it is her lifeline. Diagnosed with dysthymia, she has lived through the exhaustion of long medical treatments and the weight of persistent depression. Yet, she has never stopped creating.

“When I’m in my art studio, I don’t know if I’ve been there for minutes or hours,” she says. “That’s where my brain gets the serotonin it needs.” For her, making art is therapy, meditation, and alignment with her life’s purpose, if she hasn’t fully discovered what that purpose is.

On her worst days, she enters her studio without a plan, simply playing with materials until something takes shape. Sometimes the work fails, but even then, she discovers new techniques, new textures, new ideas. That immersion, she believes, is what makes her performances and poetry authentic.

Lessons for Young Women

Saheba’s advice to younger women is clear: own your decisions. Career, marriage, motherhood, none of these paths are compulsory. What matters is choosing consciously and standing by those choices without resentment.

“Feminism,” she stresses, “is not about independence. It’s about owning your decisions.” Whether one chooses to build a career, be a homemaker, or pursue a creative calling, what matters is authenticity, not conformity.

The Entrepreneurial Balance

Blending business with creativity is not easy, but Saheba offers three grounded tips for those seeking this path:

1. Learn before you leap. Early in her career, she dove into entrepreneurship quickly. Looking back, she wishes she had trained longer under mentors. Boundaries, she reminds us, must be understood before they are broken.
2. Use social media wisely. It is a great tool to showcase your work, but it cannot become the work itself. “You can put what you do on social media. Social media can’t be what you do.”
3. Grow your village. True success, she believes, comes when you empower those around you, staff, family, community. “It takes a village,” she says, “and making your village powerful is on you.”

Mental Health and Women Creators

While mental health struggles are universal, Saheba points out one crucial difference: women’s biological cycles. Periods, PMS, menopause, none of these are factored into workplaces or creative timelines, yet they deeply affect energy and emotional health.

Her larger message, however, is universal. Mental health must be treated like any other illness, with medical help, medication when necessary, and honest communication. “Please don’t ignore it,” she urges. “You wouldn’t ignore high blood pressure or diabetes. Why ignore your brain?”

What Success Means Today

For Saheba, success is no longer about recognition or material markers. It is about peace of mind. “I have consciously taken decisions that give me stress-free days,” she admits. After years of survival-mode living, calm is her new measure of achievement.

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With her second book ready for release, a PG-rated departure from her first, her art finding audiences in Dubai and beyond, and a product line of art-based furniture and interiors on the horizon, Saheba’s future is full of promise. Yet, her anchor remains the same: calm, clarity, and creativity.

Listen to the Conversation

Saheba’s story is a reminder that creativity thrives when it breaks boundaries, and healing comes when we allow ourselves to be both vulnerable and strong.

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Words to Carry With You

“You can put what you do on social media. Social media can’t be what you do.” – Saheba Singh

A line that speaks not only to creators but to anyone navigating today’s digital world.

A Call to Action

Saheba Singh’s journey challenges us to rethink success, vulnerability, and creativity. Her life shows that there is no single script—only choices we must own.

If her story resonated with you, take the time to reflect: what truths are yours to tell, what creative impulses are waiting to surface, and what decisions are you ready to own?

And don’t forget—there are many more stories like Saheba’s on The AboutHer Show, where trailblazers share their journeys of courage, creativity, and change.

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