as we bumble through this thing called life
just us being us as we explore the expressive arts for mental health, wellbeing and recovery
Hey! So Glad You're Here.
The Very Human Collective
We're a totally imperfect, blemished yet blessed bunch of sometimes dancing and soaring but often stumbling and falling very human beings.
Phew, big sentence. Got that? We're not certain we have ... but here we are anyway - venturing and exploring.
This blog is us just putting it all out there as we work through our "stuff" and opening the gate in case another very human being would like to join in the journey or simply come sit in the sun or perhaps shelter for a while.
Together, we've got this! Right? Right!
Who We Are
and where we are at right now
Marie-Claude
I'm learning to be brave to just be ME. So far, I know, for sure, I like chocolate. La reste est une grande expedition
Kendall
I often get very stuck in my mud. I guess I am getting braver about slipping out of my trapped boots and walking forward in my bare feet
Maddie
I used to be fun and quirky. Then sad took over and sucked out my air. I am finding my fun again and learning that quirky is a good thing.
Liam
Hey. Hope you can get something helpful out of our stuff.
Taylor
For the longest time I thought I was just plain too much for everyone and everything. Now I am discovering I am just right how
I am!
Marc
Just recently I have started letting my rigid lines flow a little. Just recently. Still very new. Can you detect the nerves in my voice?
Leonora
Often others turn to me to be the wise and stable one. I don't always feel like either. My therapist calls this grief. Alright then. The sun is shining beautifully as I write this though ...
Max
My first response to anything has always been to bolt. Run away as fast as I can. Lately I have started to imagine myself as a giant oak tree, with all my scars and crags and twists and strength, standing solidly on my ground and producing acorns - potential, life, ...
Genevieve
Not everything was endured. Some things were lived. I want to know both. Deeply.
Margaux
My habit was to always make everything go away if I could only work harder and be busy, busy, busy.
I am starting to sit once in a while. Just take things in and let them be a part of me. At first it was nearly impossible. But each day it gets more and more comfortable.
Saxon
Just this week I have started getting really excited about everything that could be and I am trying super hard not to get painted head to toe in everything that was
Terri
Sometimes I feel like this:
Sometimes it's more like this:
When all else fails, I dance
Livia
Where do I begin? Do I actually end? I have no idea. What do I need? I need life. Is that it? Relationships. I want. What do I want? I have no clue. I think I have trust issues. I am most definitely a work in progress
Pseudo
Today, I am painting
Thandi
I think I have been functioning on autopilot for so long that here and now feels like an emergence. I spend a lot more time in there and then. This is new. Hello.
Nicola
I'm 11 years old and I guess I'm trying to learn not to take things so seriously and it's ok when stuff I do isn't perfect.
Tyson
I could write many wise and wonderful things (not) but I suppose the most honest thing I could say is "I need to learn how to express my emotion more healthily"
Lori
I can get so easily caught in the hurt and then I isolate and ruminate and cave deeper and deeper. Art, for me, is a process of forcing myself to reach out. Someone, somewhere will see it and hear.
Samantha
I love to sing and draw and dance.
I'm 9.
Watson
I want to play and I want to run and I like to climb and hide and do tricks and look at things.
I'm 7
The only difference, the very only one
is that they have begun to understand
what they really are
and have begun to practice it
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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