Yvie Johnson

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The Philosopher’s White Line

18/05/201603/04/2019 Categories: Adventure · LEJOGLE · Mental HealthTags: Anxiety · Bipolar Disorder · Depression · Endurance · John O'Groat's · LEJOGLE · Mental Health Awareness Week · Nature · Running

Mind: where you run…

16/05/201603/04/2019 Categories: Adventure · LEJOGLE · Mental HealthTags: Anxiety · Bipolar Disorder · Depression · Endurance · John O'Groat's · Mental Health Awareness Week · Running

Not all running locations are created equally for your health, so mind where you run.

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Yvie Johnson is an illustrator, book cover designer, and writer working on a memoir, a historical fiction novel and illustrated short stories. Yvie lives with Bipolar Disorder and ME, and is supported by her partner, three children and puppy in the Welsh countryside.

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Is this a paradox? My pain is not my identity, but it does define what I can do. How can 'something' so separate from myself (that part of me that exists and knows that I do as a separate entity to each of you) be so profoundly in control of what I can do, what I can accomplish, what I can decide to do next, yet not be considered an identifying feature of my current life? Sincerely, pain won't define what I can do, nor what I can't do, it's just pain. Isn't it? I'm not sure. Without it, I won't make certain choices. Such as to not work when my brain fluffs up with creative cumulus. Or not move, not talk, not eat, not research, not write, not scroll through timelines and bylines for enlightenment or, at the very least, entertainment. Its very presence is shaping the trajectory of my future, a future that may well be all that I imagined and dreamed of and I'll have to come back to the experience of pain and the time of 'not' being able to do certain things and feel grateful for the narrow lane I was pushed down. Those choices will come along again, in the tender breaths of pain-free moments, and there'll be a time that I can act on them, but what will I have missed? I mean, I won't know. I won't know if I'll become the person I'm meant to because of the pain that stopped me from doing a thing at that particular time (and each time), because of the outcome of the choices I made pushed by pain, or because of the moments between pain where I acted out a thing. Pain is shaping my life, now. Pain isn't my identity. 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜 #Pain #Paradox #ThoughtsOn #CanDo #ChronicPainLife #MEcfs #SpoonieSister #JourneyToJoy #ThrilledToBeHere #CreativeLady #CreativeCumulus #BrainFluff

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