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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

This cartoon was about how the last few years of life has felt. A constant tsunami of events, job loss, no money, Covid lockdowns,...

When I write this phrase down, I appreciate that it seems really quite narcissistic. However, I also realise that it stems from...

It's been a rough few weeks with morning palpitations, panic attacks and night terror. It's been exhausting operating and trying to...

This year I've been thinking a lot about waves, brain waves and beach waves, this, alongside, with having friends who do cold-water...

This year I've been given the space and time to explore the way I work creatively and reflect upon the experiences that have helped to...

As part of my Develop Your Creative Practice funded year, I'm taking a deep dive into mental health, so was drawn to this book that looks...

I've realised that my default response to noisy people and certain situations, is to retreat. To move away. Become invisible and small. I...

It was 14 years ago when I had my first night terror, it precipitated my later nervous breakdown, and since that time I've had these...

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...

I remember the night I started my first illustrated journal. My small son was three, and to pull back a couple of hours of child-free...

Mornings always seem to be the worst for the grey fog. Wake up. Then as my brain lifts itself from sleep, it then seems to move into a...

In general I'm finding that staying away from the news and social media is really helping with my anxiety. Instead of doom scrolling I'm...

I was drawn to this quote as I often feel very knotted; knotted and tight forehead and knotted and taut nerves. At times these knots have...