mental illness
Self-Care Rituals for Trauma Healing
Understanding Trauma and Healing Trauma doesn’t just live in the past—it lives in your unconscious. It hides in muscle tension, dreams, reflexes, fears, and flashes…
Living in Bipolar Disorder and the Grayness of Mental Illness
March 30 is World Bipolar Day, a time to raise awareness and break the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder. But for many of us living with…
Categories: Mental Illness & Resilience
Your Trauma Healing Journey: Making Peace with Contradictions
Trauma doesn’t just leave scars—it fractures us. It carves deep divides between who we were, who we are, and who we’re striving to become. It’s…
Categories: Mental Illness & Resilience
Why Am I an Artist?
To Be Free I create art to slip off into a place of no time, no worry, no depression, and no PTSD. While creating, I…
Categories: Personal Stories of Creative Growth
Is This Depression or Bipolar?
The writer reflects on their struggle with mental illness, emphasizing that the distinction between depression and bipolar disorder is overshadowed by the profound impact of…
Categories: Mental Illness & Resilience
Art Doll for PTSD Relief – Butterfly
Butterfly A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Art Doll for PTSD Relief and Positivity “Butterfly” is an art doll for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relief and to help…
Categories: My Art Dolls
Me and My Bipolar = 3
The Backstory “Me and My Bipolar” is important to me because the end result shows me and the two minds of bipolar disorder (depression and…
Categories: My Drawings
A Beautiful Art Doll for Health and Wellness
Leela A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Art Doll for Health and Wellness If any art doll is capable of inspiring care of body, mind and spirit, it…
Categories: My Art Dolls