#mental health care
Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.
even if all you did today was put on a brave face, just know that i’m proud of you & many others are too
self-affirmation of the week
“I am worthy of love and joy.”
weekly self-affirmation:
“I mentally identify with success, abundance & wealth.”
check out Jay, a musician for mental health, & show some support
https://instagram.com/jay_for_awareness?igshid=10hnx7hdzluf4
Jay (@jay_for_awareness) • Instagram photos and videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvWYIM_R0iM&feature=youtu.be
take care of your bodies, ladies ❤️
weekly self-affirmation:
“the Infinite Intelligence reveals to me my true place in life, where i express myself at the highest level.”
weekly self-affirmation:
“I am an open channel to love, harmony & creative love.” ⭐️
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credit to instagram account: anxietyhealer
credit to the instagram account: regen_health
remember to treat yourself a bit, self love is important
weekly self-affirmation:
“I am strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, illumined and inspired.”
weekly self-affirmation:
“my mistakes are stepping stones to my success because i learn from them.”
self-affirmation of the week:
“I radiate love, peace & joy.”
weekly self-affirmation
“I live on the presence of the Higher Intelligence, from which all blessings flow.”
just a few lil things to look forward to and remember when you’re not doing so well:
- those clear starry nights
- that one perfect coffee that your café makes next door
- the fleeting mystical moments when you see cats or other animals walking past you
- the beginning of summer / the summer solstice
- the next full/new moon
- a new season of one of your favourite shows
- sleeping in on a Sunday morning
- watch the four seasons come and go
- enjoy a day off in the countryside in nature
- redecorate and create your own space however you like
- Halloween (spooky season)
- dress up in your favourite outfit and feel confident about your look and let others see it demonstratively
- enjoy a day off in the city and just let yourself drift by all kinds of impressions
- discovering new music / a new band that immediately suits your vibe and you listen to non-stop
- waking up early in the morning before a trip with anticipation for the day
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Christmas is coming
Christmas can be wonderful, but, for some, Christmas is a cold reminder of family trauma and sadness. While the idea of the family getting together for the holidays is sweet and charming, we must remember that some of us have very toxic family members. I encourage everyone to make choices that will benefit your mental health and well being this holiday season. Whether you’re leaving toxic family members behind or creating beneficial boundaries, make the choice for yourself despite how you think they will feel. And if you know of someone who is distancing themselves from their family, please do not pressure them into changing their mind for the sake of “holiday spirit”. Every family is different, and we should respect their choice to make boundaries or leave toxicity behind.
“Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children”
-Eric Draven (The Crow)
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I am not a mother myself and I don’t wish to become one, but I am a daughter and a sister, a child of a broken home, as many others, I’m someone who witnessed and endured several common mistakes our parents made with my younger sister and I, but also, someone who knows with complete certainty those mistakes weren’t conscious.
So, once again I’m trying to convey what I’ve learned through what this brave woman shared with the world, with the main goal to help others and prevent them from going through what she and some other mothers, fathers, siblings and families have suffered unnecessarily.
I firmly believe Sue isn’t guilty or responsible for the crime her younger son perpetrated 20 years ago, tho, I know she committed some serious mistakes, out of ignorance, about the struggles that young man was enduring right before his suicide.
That’s why I pictured here what she tried to be for him as for his older brother: just the best mom she could, maybe not a perfect one and not even the one her son needed at that time, but the absolute best she could and that’s something no one, not even him and what he did, can take away from her.
I’m a person who believes there should always be the right to have freedom of expression, even if sometimes is not comfortable to others, because the fact it’s not nice, doesn’t mean, that expression is looking to offend those who don’t like it. It’s only the venting of an idea or the wish to share something with others.
Since last year, after I fortuitously got to know about Susan Klebold and her journey after the crime her younger son perpetrated and his subsequent suicide. I not only developed an interest in her and what she has to say about such crime, her son and her fight to create consciousness around mental health issues, but I also felt able to look at this person in a new light, i started to see him as a human being, which took me to want to reproduce some of the photos Susan has shared of him through the years, because I wanted to represent that human, that child she raised.
However, for the first time in 20 years of having been learning to draw and have become an arts mayor, I’ve found a huge percentage of rejection and hostility towards this reproductions, people rush to conclude that my only interest is to glorify and enhance him, giving him attributes he didn’t had, pretending he didn’t do anything wrong or even believing I support or condone such atrocities.
By no means and in no moment, I’m pretending to promote these kind of ideas, but I think is sad and frustrating that those who only wish to make images or illustrations about these topics or any other that turns out to be polemic, whether is for a certain interest or just for the exercise of making any artwork, don’t have the right to share those without being attacked and referred to as deranged and sick persons who only wish to promote the actions of these persons or who only want to disrespect or disregard it’s victims and pretend they were right for acting as they did or deserve more attention than those who lost their life at their hands.
Art is a mean of expression, a way to share what we feel, what we live, what we think, what we fear, about things that makes us hurt, things we want, things we enjoy and, tho, sometimes those messages can be uncomfortable or hurtful, it’s also a right and a necessity for it to exist and generate such disconfort, this, with the objective of create a debate, generate consciousness and analysis, promote the search for learning and a better understanding of the topic it represents or sometimes just share a visual composition.
In my case, I’m not trying to take away the responsibility and concecuences of the actions this young man perpetrated, nor I pretend to force others to see him differently as what they perceive of him, I just wish I didn’t feel like I have to hide what I’ve been drawing, I wish people could see that I’m only making visual pieces about a topic that got me thinking and has helped me widen my views about some of the biggest issues of our time which is our mental health.
My personal belief is that demonizing this people is as harmful as glorifying them, I feel we should try to see them as humans, even and specially, if it is inconvenient and uncomfortable, because anyone of us could be them, anyone of us could reach their point, if we, as them, don’t get the chance to be helped, anyone of us could be as hateful and ruthless, anyone of us could get as lost as they got and pretending they were plain evil, it’s not only naive, but potentially dangerous, the last 20 years and the continuous occurrence of these kind of tragedies is sadly, the best proof we haven’t learned enough of it, we haven’t payed enough attention.
we don’t need more access to mental health care, we need different mental health care.
and “increasing access” too often = making it easier to force people into treatments against their will or without full information & consent.
it’s not insignificant that many people involved in tragedies towards themselves or others were already accessing care.
