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