Is There a Difference Between Play and Practice?

I was told I needed to practice for 45 minutes every day on piano, and I'm sad to say that I don't play anymore. My mum had this kind of extraordinary attitude about learning, which really came from play rather than practice. It's hard to draw the line between those two; certain things you need to practice in order to be able to do them. And other things are better discovered through just the process of kind of sniffing out what feels really good. Both sides have existed for me ever since I began the world of music. However conscious I've been of either process, but much to my kind of delight and gratitude looking back, I was really enabled to make my own