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...

I was having an interesting chat yesterday with a chap about anxiety, he was interested in my artwork because he said he struggled to...

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...

I was chatting to someone about social media a few weeks ago, and she made the comparision with social media consumption being like...

For some months now I've been really analysing the contents of the air I'm breathing, not the actual air, but metaphorically, but just as...

This morning, I woke up. Grateful. Grateful that the thick, inpenetrable fog that's been swimming round my brain for the last few weeks...

One thing that is helping with my anxiety recently is realising that I dont have to blindly follow the dictates of society, particularly...

I'm having one of those periods where the brain chatter doesn't stop and any positive thoughts struggle to get through. I think it's...

I grew up in a politically engaged household. I've spent my adult life working in journalism, and reading political works. I've engaged...