‘The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance’ Alan Watts During moments of change in our lives where confusion and doubt reign. A place where we seem to be in no place, or in-between places. In limbo uncertainty and fear mix with […]
Is Social Anxiety more a habit?
Am I anxious just because I’m made this way or is it because I learned to be this way? (at least in part) Whilst some of us are predisposed towards anxiety (Sensitive types are like Orchids) I can’t help feel that in some way I learned to be anxious. I feel that for many chronic […]
3 Ways to look at negative thoughts
In my own history of anxiety, I’ve unnoticed come at the problem from different directions. One was through logic and reason, another through insight and awareness. Now as an artist it’s imagery and metaphor. It made me reflect on the different ways we relate to and cope with our hopes, fears and worries. In the […]
Suffering: From Ignorance to Awareness
‘Our life is what our thoughts make it’ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations To find happiness, we have to deal with the suffering we experience. I used to suffer badly with anger and loneliness. Angry, I would get so angry. I was alone and hurting. I looked out at the world with a glare, feeling as if […]
Embodied: Addressing anxiety via our physical life
In my extreme anxiety days, it was all about the mind. That is whats going on, what I thought, how I felt. To overcome the trap of thinking so much that is anxiety I had to go elsewhere. A place most of us forget we have until we suffer. Our physical body. Anxiety is overthinking […]
Anxiety, self-esteem and Introversion
Part of the reason why I suffered when I was young was that I had such low self-worth. I felt there was something wrong with me. ‘I just wasn’t good with people.’ ‘No-one wants to be with me or talk to me.’ That’s how I thought of myself. The extroverts, they’re the ones with the […]