These days, I’m ultra-calm under pressure. I never used to be. I used to be a frazzled, frantic person when I had a ton of stuff on my plate. I’d stress out when urgency was squeezing me. I’d usually get my stuff done, but in a chaotic way, leaving heaps of loose threads hanging. I […]
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Pre-mindful drawing days I was a trigger queen. I was always taking things personally. I had no self-love or self-confidence so vinegar was liberally tipped into my unhealed wounds on a regular basis – most often, by my boyfriends at the time (sorry guys). It wasn’t their fault – they were just semi-normal people doing
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Feelings of loneliness and isolation are states of mind. You can spend years on your own, and not feel lonely. And you can be surrounded by people, and still feel lonely. The reason why so many of us feel lonely, is because the system we live in teaches us that we are separate from everything
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So many of us don’t manage anxiety while it’s a yellow flag. We ignore the warning signs til we’re stuck in the red zone. It just kind of creeps up. Anxiety is a mental health issue that’s becoming increasingly common and it’s horribly uncomfortable. It’s a mind program where we get stuck in loops of
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Until you learn to manage empathy and compassion, it can hurt like hell because you feel more. This is hard because the world we live in is rife with suffering. But once you learn how to manage it, it becomes an enormous gift. It’s no accident there are increasing numbers of highly sensitive people and
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When you connect with gratitude, you tap into one of the biggest highs you can experience, because being in a state of gratitude is as high-frequency as it gets. It’s pure love. As a person who was a gigantic, dysfunctional addict, this is what I looked for everywhere. It’s free and it’s all around you
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Learning sitting meditation made its way onto my New Year’s Resolutions list every single year without fail. And like everything else on the list, it never happened – it just remained a fantasy of some person I wished I could be. The reasons why I couldn’t do it was I was too busy (yep that
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Fear and I have a very different relationship these days. We’re actually weird buddies. Because these days I know when you face your fears, this is how you grow. Before my rock bottom, I wasn’t too bad at doing big things that scared me – but they were all outward, external things. But I couldn’t
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This post is bloody long, because my addictions were whoppers. Learning how to overcome addiction was one of the most difficult challenges in my entire existence. It was the headlining theme for more than two decades of my life. My own addiction story is woven into this post, but the point of it all, is
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Finding power in being single sounds a bit weird in our culture where most people are on the lookout for a partner. People often assume there’s something wrong with you if you don’t have one. But there is enormous power in being single. Until you find it, you probably have no idea it’s even there.
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I’m not saying that mindful drawing can help everyone manage PTSD – I don’t feel it’s right to make that call. This …
This benefit is hard to write because it brings up shame for old me’s actions – but this is not who I …
Learning to become an optimist wasn’t a massive shift for me, because I’ve never been a huge pessimist. But my optimism lens …
When you activate self-awareness and insight, you’ve got your hands on one of the most powerful benefits in the whole goodie bag. …
I drew this symbol of the Throat Chakra in 2018 – back when I couldn’t speak my truth. I didn’t know what …
When you increase focus and concentration sure you become a smart cookie who’s able to hold a conversation without forgetting what the …
It wasn’t until I was past 40, that I began to increase my self-confidence. Before then I had none. When I found …
Humans are a judgy bunch. I was. I still am. But there’s a difference – these days, I’m conscious of it. Being …