Look, mum, I'm in the news! :)
This is pretty big for me! My first news coverage for my art (rather than my music).
It's not 100% accurate; it says "The 35-year-old said she started making âart-messâ â a term she coined herself â to help deal with the social anxiety she experienced during her return to work." I wasn't actually anxious about returning to work at all. I was excited!
What really happened is that I found it depressing realising when I rejoined the world after a year exiled in my bedroom in pain, that 99% of people on public transport to and from work were glued to their phones and completely disengaged with each other.
I made a conscious decision to try not to look at my phone in public spaces unless it was an emergency, in an attempt to not contribute to the social disengagement (and to gently reacclimatise myself to social contact again after spending so much time alone). I replaced the phone fidgeting habit with playing with Posca paint pens in a small notebook that I take everywhere with me, and when people started looking at me curiously and asking me what I was doing, I invited them to join me.
Read the full story here:Â
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2018/03/23/social-prescribing-drug-free-treatment/
Photos of me by Shallinda Coreenâ.
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