Art and Self Blog
Top Six Reads of 2022
I love this time of year because people start posting their favorite reads of the year. This year, I surpassed my reading goal and read more than 50 books in a year for the first time ever! This was a year of mostly fiction. I did read many non-fiction books, but...
Can I have gratitude for my suffering?
Yesterday morning, I was talking to my therapist about this insidious voice that pops into my thoughts sometimes and says “I hate myself.” We talked about how that voice used to be the primary voice at one point, and the “I like myself” voice was the very tiny voice...
We need connection.
The Fall session of the Art and Self Connection Circle just ended, and my heart is full of love for this beautiful group of people and sadness that it has ended (for now), but great joy looking forward to the future, knowing what is possible in this soul-filling...
Just keep swimming?
Yesterday morning in my daily writing practice, before I learned of the passing of our beloved, delightful tWitch, I was pondering this artwork by Dana Schutz (Swimming, Smoking, Crying, 2009) to potentially write about in my book about my own mental health...