Blogging is self-care

100 Day Project Day 53

I was having a conversation about blogging, and showing up to create every day, and the way that has turned into a form of self-care. The friend I was having the conversation with described her stash of art materials, and the fact she just can’t just now, and her self-care takes another form.

Of course that’s valid. Self-care is incredibly difficult for many of us just now watching genocide unfolding live in our phones, and the creeping fascism we are seeing in the UK. I suspect those of us who are neurodivergent are particularly challenged just now, since common traits are empathy and a deep sense of justice, along with individual challenges with self-care and executive function.

So I take every day that I turn up, even if it is only for a short burst of creativity, as a blessing. I am still here, still creating, still bearing witness, and still trying to fight for equality in whatever way than I can.

Sketchbook page from today:

That spritz of water on the eyes, delicious.

Til the morn,

Suzanne