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Get your house in order

02/12/201724/03/2019 Categories: Mental HealthTags: Nature · Outdoors

Sometimes your own thoughts are all you need to move forward.

What if your GP could prescribe fresh air and exercise?

11/09/201603/04/2019 Categories: Mental Health · SportTags: Anxiety · Depression · Inspiration · Mindfulness · Nature · Outdoors · Running

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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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My stamp collection. 📮 The Exposure blog post gave me a nudge to illustrate a collection for my text. As a lover of stamps and snail mail, creating my own illustrated stamp collection was a little exciting, I’ve a dozen images prepared but I’ve concentrated on just four as time was prescient. Even so, that’s a lot of stimulation overload for one chronically ill lady. I’m in pain now, I can tell ya, but it feels more like a pain of glory, having won the challenge I’d set out to achieve. I don’t want to stop here, I want to illustrate more, but that means more writing. Only, I need a break from it, from my burning joints and all over bone screams, some time to recover so my condition doesn’t deteriorate indefinitely. It’s no different to preparing for a running challenge, or any sport, for that matter. Learning to not overtrain means you’ll likely overtrain just so you know how far you can push yourself. Your brain is fired up for the task. Your body doesn’t respond. So you battle it out inside yer head, as time continues to pass and the world revolves around you. The waiting becomes frustrating because you simply want to get back out there; you have a mission, after all, and lots of pride. The learning, it seems, just never stops. 🎸✨🌿🌌 #MHAW19 #Exposure #Illustration #Illustrator #Singing #Stars #Lights #Guitar #Music #Creative #Female #Artist #iPadArt #AdobeDraw #RedBubbleArtist #RedBubble #PatreonCreator #Patreon #MEcfs #Spoonie #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Disabled #Disability #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Writer #Blogger #Learning #Brave

Latest Musings

Exposure: be body kind
The measure of a person
The other me that I know
Running with Bipolar: go your own way
Running with Bipolar: the first step is the boldest

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