Taking things personally can cause a lot of unnecessary stress and/or can even be traumatic depending on the situation and a person's resilience levels at that time. Taking things personally is not actually a thing where you're obsessed with yourself or hold importance of yourself in every situation it's kinda the opposite, it's a somewhat victim mindset concerned with reputation feeling as though your 'character, abilities or personal achievements are under attack'. For example where you take that what someone did/said is related to you in some way shape or form and being unable to see how it's not like that, which yeah in some sense is self centred but not in an arrogant way.  "It's normal to care about what others think about us but not to the point where it hinders us" Taking things personally is generally a result of low self-esteem and low self-confidence; when you always think negatively of yourself e.g. believing everything is your faul

 2023 started off with art journalling and experimenting with the Himi jelly gouache paint which if you've not tried it is like a better version of acrylic paint that's also a watercolour depending on how much you dilute it.  I created an art journal in a format like a funky diary; it had lots of song lyrics representing my thoughts and feelings and the images produced still in the cosmic theme but had the checkered pattern as i'd just learnt how to draw it. I wrote the words first then drew but near the end of the book I struggled to complete the drawings to go with the lyrics so I left the journal whilst I worked on different projects. By the time of coming back to finish the book I no longer resonated with most of it so I never finished it. I continued making the old compositions brought to life on cardboard pieces that I started in 2022 and managed to complete them all in 2023,  SO I started drawing some new compositions same style on cardboard but some had the checkere

It's been a while huh?  Firstly is it too late to say I hope 2024 has been kind to you so far (sorry I haven't been present on the blog). Life got SUPER BUSYYY, the days/weeks/months are flying by - can't believe we're almost at the end of April already!  In the time I've been gone from the blog yet more progress has been made with my self confidence, self esteem and overall worth, we've been levelling up and feeling happier within myself for the most part. I'm still volunteering *which is going well* and also still doing my YouTube, we've recently reached 100 subscribers which is a madness and I'm now able to record close up videos of me speaking without makeup on; for some reason I didn't feel presentable without makeup and I applied the theory of baby steps used for anxiety to help me overcome this. I've recently finished taking part in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy after nearly 2 years, which is a really long time, therapy is hard man ain

     I was at a discount store out of town that I'd never been in before, they sold all sorts of stuff but I found something that's super exciting!!! Watercolours in felt tip format, oh WOW.  A concept I thought i'd found last year, but they were just water based markers pretending you could create a watercolour effect *so disappointing* thought i'd imagined the concept of watercolour pens being a real thing but anyways I found these Art Hub 24 Watercolour Dual Ended Brush Pens for £6.99 and I was BUZZINNN. This being a real product is something that amazes me. I've used watercolour pencils before and this is a similar concept just in marker pen format instead. Which is cool because I really like to use felt tips, I find them a lot easier to use in comparison to a pencil.  As some of you may know I started my art journey with normal watercolours and a biro pen, so my love of watercolours has been there since the start in late 2018.  The watercolour pens have a fine

 Took a lil break from blogging as I had writers block and also wanted to focus on my YouTube venture (which is going really well so far). I've been uploading daily videos, mainly sharing my art journey and even gave vlogging a go which is a madness man; to think years ago that i'd ever have the balls to do YouTube would've been straight up delusional, but here I am living out an old aspiration that I never deemed possible. I'm not sure at what point I started to become ready for YouTube as I'd long buried that aspiration by the time of uni which was 5 years ago. I still don't feel like billy big bollocks or the most confident person infact healthy confidence feels natural you're just comfortable in situations you once wasn't all of a sudden, it's not necessarily a thought process like ego it's different... anyways I think my passion just outweighs my fears these days it's not that my confidence levels are super high but they're at a dece

 She's finally gone and done it...I've started a YouTube channel !!! After nearly 10 years of wanting to but not having the confidence to do so; mental health and life malarkey stopped me from attempting what I really wanted to do, I didn't think it was possible for someone like me to achieve for various reasons. Instead I focused on blogging which went well, it took me years to figure out a writing style and the topics i'd chosen were what everyone else was doing at the time (fashion and lifestyle posts) when I had no real clue about either back then, I just wanted to be involved in blogging and I thought that was the only way to do it. I didn't really know myself at that time period, I had no hobbies other than blogging and eventually as I got into my 20s I started to know myself, my interests, explored them and found my passion; Art Therapy. I started to focus on creating content on other platforms which taught me a lot, I shared my journey and it expanded into c

  Introducing Craft Planet's 6 Neon Paint Sticks! I'm not new to craft planet's products, they're a brand i've been loving for some time; the aesthetics scream my kinda vibe and the products themselves are really good quality so  I'm super excited about this one... It's paint in a stick format but not liquid paint which intrigues me. It's more like a jelly consistency which i've not tried in a stick *i've only tried jelly gouache* but I think the paint stick idea is a great concept.   I think the packaging is cute; it's simple it has the brand name, some stars, texture for grip and a clear lid which is giving off spacey vibes.  I bought these from a local discount store, I can't remember how much I paid but they are available online for £6+ depending where you get them from. They make the standard coloured paint sticks too, a pack of 12 but I didn't pick them up as I wanted to see if the neon ones were any good.  I didn't do a swa