There's something else to your question...no one who used to draw wonders how to draw again, how to get back into it or "reconcile" it with x, y, or z....
What do you mean by "reconcile," exactly?
I'm a urban bicyclist, but I don't feel any qualms about driving out of the city if I have to. Though hardly a swimmer, I really like to swim and dive, but haven't been under water in years and years -- yet I don't wonder how to reconcile my love of the water with being a land-lubber most of the time!
So I think there's something else to your question....
(BTW, FWIW, I'm also an artist, though I don't make my living from it.)
P.S.
You might enjoy something by Douglas Hofstadter ("Goedel, Escher, Bach" or "Metamagical Themas")....