In creative field, it’s easy and would make sense to put a part of yourself into your work or product. It gives your work soul and personalities, put the downside of getting over-attached with your work is it will be very hard to receive any criticism. 

You have spent hours working on it, it has your experience and your emotions, it’s your baby, how can anyone says any bad things about it? By saying anything negative, it’s like saying that part of you is bad.

I think it’s best to dissasociate yourself with your work. I always have to remind myself that as soon as I  put down my pen, my hand left the cursor, that work is no longer belongs to me, it belongs to the world. From there I will be able start to look at it from an objective point of view, learn what can make it better and take criticism to my future work.

This reminds me of how Ed Sheeran always let his audience knows that they can interpret and relate to his songs as however they like based off their experiences instead of his, here’s his live performance of Eyes Closed, a song about grief and loss that I really like: