top of page


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

thwtbd
Jan 291 min read
0 views
0 comments


The Anatomy of Anxiety
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...

thwtbd
Jan 141 min read
2 views
0 comments


The waters of birth...
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...

thwtbd
Dec 9, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Life needs more commas...
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...

thwtbd
Nov 29, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Swimming against the tide...
"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...

thwtbd
Nov 21, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Of bubbles a boundaries
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...

thwtbd
Nov 15, 20242 min read
0 views
0 comments


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

thwtbd
Nov 12, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


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

thwtbd
Nov 11, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


My little book of C words...
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...

thwtbd
Nov 5, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


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

thwtbd
Oct 28, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


A walk down the garden path
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...

thwtbd
Oct 24, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


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

thwtbd
Oct 24, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


A moment in time
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,...

thwtbd
Oct 17, 20242 min read
0 views
0 comments


Painting out of my comfort zone
As part of my #dycp funded year, I've been looking at ways to expand the way I work, so when I was asked to paint a mural, I rather...

thwtbd
Oct 10, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Finding sanctuary
I've been putting my learning from this year into practice over the last couple of weeks, and ran two autumn-themed journaling workshops...

thwtbd
Oct 7, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


A medieval treatment?
I spent a lot of my time reading about the history of mental health and listening to lots of podcasts about the same issue, this can get...

thwtbd
Oct 2, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Finding ways to keep it all out
There are days where I just can't keep 'it' out. The world, that is. The relentless onslaught of the media, noise, the overpowering...

thwtbd
Sep 30, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Somewhere becoming pain...
I'm feeling pain and sadness at the minute. There are endings to deal with. I don't do well with endings. I can see only the end, and not...

thwtbd
Sep 25, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


Feeling rubbed out
I've always struggled to take my place in the world, to have my voice heard or to take up space. It feels like everytime I feel...

thwtbd
Sep 20, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments


The physical effects of anxiety
In those lucky years before my breakdown when I was unaware of anxiety and its impacts, I would have said that it was something that was...

thwtbd
Sep 19, 20241 min read
0 views
0 comments
bottom of page