A few weeks ago, my candle was very dim. I ended up being very poorly and I'm still having to take it easy so I get properly better. But...

I've known for a while now that my brain feels like an overstuffed shopping bag, bursting at the seams and with a bottom that's...

At the end of 2024 thanks to some Arts Council funding I trained as an ARTiculate deliverer with the British Association of Art...

This is the first time this journal has had a public viewing. But I thought it would be useful to share, as spend a lot of time in...

I woke up this morning reading the news and feeling a bit like, to misquote Churchill, that the lights are starting to go out. And then I...

Community, connection, creativity, calm Last year I received Arts Council England funding, and one of the outcomes of the work I did was...

Little book of C words. This little leather-bound book is the culmination of a year's work. I came to the realisation that I could let my...

In the run up to Christmas I'd had too many of these brain collapses. They aren't panic attacks, more anxiety attacks. But they are...

I remember when my own waters broke 12 years ago, just before my son made his middle-of-the-night arrival in the world. It felt like a...

My brain seems to run like a flow of words that never stops for breath. There are no commas, no full stops. It goes on and on. Breathless...

"The world we believe in becomes the world we live in." Gabor Mate. I have been swimming too long in toxic waters and they have polluted...

I can be consumed by a swarm of negative thoughts buzzing around my head. #artandanxiety #mentalhealthjourney #artastherapy

I do find the way therapy and counselling speak to be a bit cringey and overused in places, but as boundaries is a good way to describe...

There are days when I feel lost in a maze of circular thinking, the noise, the patterns, overwhelms. Humans are suppposed to find...

My thoughts behav like overeager bunnies tumbling over themselves in their eagerness to get my attention. It's exhausting. #dycp...

I've been mulling over an idea for a self-help (for me) book of c words that I can turn to when my anxiety is taking over my brain. This...

This illustration was originally created around themes of attachment and how I fill the perceived gaps and damage in my brain. I had...

As part of my #dycp year I undertook a course with the UAL online learning about book illustration. For my story I created a narrative...

At night the waves of my mind crash upon the strandline, the beach becomes littered with thoughts and endless recriminations #dycp...

I've spent years trying to figure out what went wrong with my mother's relationship with me. Why I never seemed to meet her expectations,...