How TV and Movies Helped Me Endure a Traumatic Time

📺📺📺 DO YOU HAVE CERTAIN SHOWS OR MOVIES YOU WATCH WHEN YOU NEED TO FEEL BETTER? 📺📺📺 When I was trapped overseas by my abusive ex and I had years of waiting for my chance to put my case to the courts, the combination of working on paperwork for my case, looking after my small …

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Three Ways Making Art Benefits Mental Health

Anytime you sit down to practice your art you feel it, that sense of calm that is like a coming home. You just know it’s good for you…or is it? Is doing art just another way to check out of reality for a while? That kind of thinking can make it feel selfish to sit …

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Beltane Eve Work 2021

You can look in while I work on a goddess that emerged from a ripped bit of cardboard. Beltane needs fire, so I had a little candle burning, and I also enjoyed an ochoko or two of sake from the region in which I used to live in Japan.