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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...

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Nov 29, 20241 min read
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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...

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Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Buzzy head...
I can be consumed by a swarm of negative thoughts buzzing around my head. #artandanxiety #mentalhealthjourney #artastherapy

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Nov 18, 20241 min read
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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...

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Nov 15, 20242 min read
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Bouncing bunny brain
My thoughts behav like overeager bunnies tumbling over themselves in their eagerness to get my attention. It's exhausting. #dycp...

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Nov 11, 20241 min read
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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...

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Nov 5, 20241 min read
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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...

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Oct 28, 20241 min read
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Strandlines
At night the waves of my mind crash upon the strandline, the beach becomes littered with thoughts and endless recriminations #dycp...

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Oct 24, 20241 min read
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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,...

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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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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...

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Oct 7, 20241 min read
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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...

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Sep 30, 20241 min read
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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
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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...

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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Learning to ride the waves
This cartoon was about how the last few years of life has felt. A constant tsunami of events, job loss, no money, Covid lockdowns,...

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Sep 11, 20241 min read
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Carrying the weight of the world....
When I write this phrase down, I appreciate that it seems really quite narcissistic. However, I also realise that it stems from...

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Sep 10, 20241 min read
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Spiritual experiences in water
This year I've been thinking a lot about waves, brain waves and beach waves, this, alongside, with having friends who do cold-water...

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Sep 5, 20241 min read
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The best decision I've ever made
This is the first page of what would become, to date, an 83-book journey. It was a tentative step made in a blank A4, 92-page sketchbook...

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Aug 2, 20241 min read
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What anxiety feels like
I was having an interesting chat yesterday with a chap about anxiety, he was interested in my artwork because he said he struggled to...

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Mar 21, 20241 min read
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Life is always a battle
I seem to be doing quite well at the minute, and typically I'm feeling that I'm just lucky to be having a reprieve from the mental...

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Mar 19, 20241 min read
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The playhouse of your mind
I love this quote, as my mind does feel like a battlefield at the minute, and I can't seem to alight on something that will quieten it....

thwtbd
Feb 20, 20241 min read
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