Tag depression

Glimmer

I love how sparks come and tap you on the shoulder sometimes. The days are getting darker and darker and colder and colder. I'm doing fine, but still, this time of year is more difficult and I feel more blah.…

Creating Your Dream Team

This week's chapter in The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, which I'm reading with Jamie's book group, talks about creative alliances and partnerships.

Transform

Today, I decided to play on a piece of watercolor paper. I had cut out a few silhouettes of people from magazines that I thought I might use as stencils, but then the back of one figure had these neat...

Soul Coaching Day 3

Suddenly I'm a bundle of emotions. My neck hurts, my head hurts, and my eyes are teary. My day, up til this point was fabulous. I took a long walk to the polls, cast my vote, walked to the post...

Signs

I've been experiencing so much synchronicity in the past few days, it's wild! One that made me laugh out loud and gave me goosebumps was when I saw the same image twice in a matter of hours. First, in the...

Stormy Weather and Some Links

I made this drawing in ink on paper last week. The image came intuitively in my sketchbook and then I re-created her here. The piece is called "Speaking with Rabbits." My moods have matched the weather lately: a bit cloudy,...

Being Brave with Depression

Floating Over the Circus marker and ink on watercolor paper, 9"x12" I've been feeling a bit quiet and tender around the edges this week so far. One thing that really helped brighten my mood was getting out the door and...

Killing Yourself Over and Over Again

Drawn with markers in my journal last night. this is actually the back of the page I drew. I like the way the bleeding markers look on the reverse side. I'm listening to Martha Beck's Steering By Starlight on my...

Blooming

Art journal pages. Another scribbled intuitive drawing and a collage with some writing on it that says, "everything outside is blooming. i want to bloom too." Speaking of blooming...here are those lovely ranunculus flowers I mentioned yesterday. I worked on...