Authenticity/Conforming: exploring identity

I’m doing arts-based research.  It was hard to start, lots of doubts. The first theme I am exploring is Authenticity/Conforming. I did an active imagination writing, and then played with some of the symbols that stuck out: a tree, a white bird, a glass sphere. As I created the images, it was hard not to constantly, anxiously look for a nugget […]

Blasting away unhealthy assumptions through drawing

For years, I have been stuck behind a veil.  I saw others, and then I saw myself.  They were over there, I was over here.  No one pushed me out, no one said anything mean. They just said nothing. That silence that could be interpreted as passive aggression. At least, that is how I interpreted it.  I didn’t think I […]