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Illography Week Four, the ME Debate week.

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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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If I could just focus on this: simple creativity, making use of what I have to hand, held together by my brew of choice, preparing, readying, eager to learn, braving the process of thinking to doing, smiling at the errors, admiring the dust just before it's brushed away. If I could just focus on doing what I can, then I could maybe, perhaps, love myself a little more, accept what is, appreciate what can still be done. That grief, when you're grieving the continuing loss of yourself, it's as though you're separated from the world whilst immersed in it from an unwanted perspective. You're living a dual existence, the you that was and the you that now is. Putting this all into a working perspective that doesn't tear down your fortress at every corner uses up energy that could be better spent on decorating the fortress you already command. This is what I'm aiming for: to peal back the parts that are crumbling, and build them back up, wasi-sabi with colour, with greater acceptance, with replenished gratitude, with oodles of love, for how imperfect I feel, how impermanent my situation always was, and how incomplete I will always be. With the pain ramping up, I continuously question what life is, if merely existing isn't it. I need to learn to turn my thoughts away from anger and bitterness, away from the notion that I'm imprisoned in my own body. And go gently towards a flame, not a bonfire, just a small light in the dark, a candle, a waymarker to something better, and something other. #Simple #WasiSabi #Imperfect #Impermanent #Incomplete #ChronicPain #Coffee #Creativity #Illustrator #Photographer #InstaBloggers #Cathartic #ArtTherapy #MEcfs #FeelingAngry #FeelingGrief #FeelingShame #FeelingLove #JourneyToJoy #Artist #FindingMyPeace #MindHealth #MyFortress

Latest Musings

Exposure: be body kind
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The other me that I know
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Running with Bipolar: the first step is the boldest

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