440- Tools for Post-Traumatic healing and growth

Grab a cuppa, 1476 words coming your way!

In 2018, I had read this book (in French) about ptsd and resilience, finding several tools in it, and wanted to discuss that topic in more details that in my review. I kept the draft aside, and forgot all about it, so it's time to tackle it. 

439 - Trauma, self care and mental health

Image credit: photo and edit by myself.
5 months of composition result in a 1,316 words long entry, as well as 4 previous entries and 3 articles in hyperlinks, grab a cuppa if you intend to read them all, and some elements have a trigger warning, both here and elsewhere.

I intended and labelled this blog both for mental health topics and lifestyle, talking at length about my traumatic life experiences and struggles, but seldom about lifestyle.  To correct this imbalance, I had posted
entry 417, where I introduced you to my personal grooming routines. I can now explain how this self-care and my overall lifestyle link with my mental health and more specifically, to healing and post-traumatic growth. 

438- BLM 2 : all lives matter is hypocrisy, ignorance or insensitivity

I'm going to state something that some of you will agree, and others won't, but I must be a bit controversial here. After George Floyd's murder, the Black Lives Matter movement became a lot more visible in protests and online. Some acted as if this was new, not realizing that the movement was launched in 2013 and that the systemic racial inequalities and injustices have been going on for centuries before this... 

437- A second quirky project

here comes a medium length entry with 968 words.

In late may, I posted my first quirky project, following Willowing's video. Via comments, she said she'd love to see a butterfly by me.

436- Still here but slow

image credit : myself, it's a sketch I did back in July 2016. One of my shortest entries comes with 334 words bellow.

Hello everyone, you may have noticed that I don't post as often as I used to, especially in the high, busy periods when twitter's mental health community was giving challenges and material to think about and discuss... 

435 - Art as a gift

note: this entry's longer than I thought, grap a cuppa, it's 1,233 words long.

As announced in post 432, I'd resumed making art, both for the sake of art, and for a therapeutic goal of self expression, and personal growth. 

In that entry, I explained a few background factors about my struggles with self esteem and my rare usage of art as a form of self expression, due to those struggles. 

434- BLM 1

It has been over 2 weeks since George Floyd's murder and the start of new riots in USA. Thus far, I have been only sharing articles and memes on social media, concentrating on Facebook and Twitter. I was able to edit this blog's background from my lavender photo into the above support of the BLM movement, a copyright free image that I further edited for the purpose of this blog entry, with the added text. 

433- Cancer Survivor Day

I almost forgot to post as I was busy doing art today (and also correcting) some... 

This black ribbon is for skin cancer awareness/skin cancer survivors.
Yes, you read that right, I had blogged about my diagnosis, surgery & post-op about 2 years here on this very blog, under keyword DFSP.