Gray days.. #December #Ohio #photography #Cuyahoga #NationalPark #Cleveland #WinterHike #GrayDay #BlueSkyArtShow

Your nervous system begins to heal the moment you stop letting other people’s unhealed wounds echo through your own body. #NervousSystemDysregulation #BlueSkyArtShow #healing #NervousSystemHealing #art #FindingPeace #ArtJournal #JunkJournal #MixedMedia

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti #blueskyartshow #photography #innerstrength #door #bright #youarethekey

When seasons collide #November #Ohio #Autumn #Snow #trees #photography #MotherNature

There is a difference between a person who hurts you by making a mistake, and a person who hurts you by continuing a pattern. Mistakes can be forgiven. Patterns should be broken. Heather Thompson Day #TrustPatterns #evening #ActionsOverWords #Healing #BlueSkyArtShow #art #Chicago #photography

Returning to myself .. It's been a long week, but I'm learning how to feel relaxed and safe in my own body. #fall #autumn #NatureHeals #NervousSystem #Ohio #ForestFriday #Scape #photography #BlueSkyArtShow

“The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars." Heather Brewer #CovertNarcissist #EmotionalAbuse #photography #graffiti #AbandonedPlaces #BlueSkyArtShow #Detroit #Michigan

Colonizers of Perspective #MixedMedia #Painting #Art #TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #EmotionalAbuse The loss of self is a gradual process in an emotionally abusive relationship. It took years to figure out what was going on, and by then I was so entangled in the mess that it felt like I was the problem.

Homesick for the road.. #Runaway #RoadTrip #Escape #HockingHills #Ohio #TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

When women push their feelings down and cast their needs aside, their health suffers. Yet, we do it all the time.. time.com/6319549/sile... #WomensHealth #MentalHealth #autoimmunity #NoMorePatriarchy

When I am surrounded by nature is when I feel the most at home. #BlueSkyArtShow #home #nature

It's the end of my summer vacay, but not the end of summer. We'll still have some more beautiful days like this before winter takes over. #ArtTeacher #BackToSchool #EndOfSummer #Art #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #summer #ToledoOhio

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. #Rumi #quotes #photography #graffiti #art #Stunday #abandoned #BelleIsle #MI #BlueSkyArt#Show

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

I asked when... is a revolution? #BrettDennen #songlyrics #revolution #when #junkjournal #health #art #BigPharma #mixedmedia #artjournal

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan #rebirth #levelup #growth #art #photography #heal #quotes #stunday #darkknight #blueskyart #abandoned #Poconos

Misery loves company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties. |Billy Ivey| #StreetArt #photography #joy #pride #respect #love #Pittsburgh #PA #BlueSkyArtShow #pieces #art

#Pittsburgh ! #VisibilityBrigade

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act.. Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response.. Falls the shadow T. S. Elliot #HollowMen #quotes #poem #art #BlackhandGorge #photography #shadows #hiking #OhioStateParks #Ohio

Love does not require that we abandon ourselves. It does not ask us to prove our worth through (obedience) and self-sacrifice. And the moment we stop trying to pull someone forward is the moment we free ourselves to walk towards the love we truly deserve. Shane Bryant Kohler #BeYou #BeStrong #Art

Feelings aren't right or wrong, they just are, and we can accept all feelings no matter what they are... If you can take that in, it will free you up. K.I. Lynn #ArtJournal #CollageArt #gaslighting #feelings #MentalHealthAwareness

"Magic isn't always about spells and wands. Sometimes it's about knowing how to capture pieces of joy and let them paint the world around you." (unknown author) #magic #joy #colorful #photography #bokeh #FindingBeauty #FindingMyself

I am spending a week camping in Canada along Lake Huron and I am not going to look at the news at all. Time to decompress. #Canada #LakeHuron #camping #photography #PineryProvincialPark

So tired Living like I'm a refugee at home So tired Every day, trying to make it on my own Britti (So Tired lyrics) #Chicago #photography #murals #BlueSkyArt #MentalHealth #Britti #RecoveringPeoplePleaser

Let their journey follow its own path; your power lies in how you steady your ground. Don't waste your energy trying to convince others to change. Decide what you want in your life & accept nothing else. #BeMe #MentalHealth #Wellness #IrwinPrairie #EmotionalAbuse #photography #Ohio #BlueSkyArt

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Only when we're brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. #BreneBrown #MentalHealth #hiking #photography #quote #BlueSkyArt #healing #NelsonKennedyLedges

Silence can create a space for reflection and deep thought, but it also can be used to intimidate, control, and instill fear in others. #NervousSystemDysfunction #covert #silence #EmotionalManipulation #PassiveAggressive #ArtJournal #JunkJournal #ArtTherapy #Healing

Standing alone authentically is less lonely than being surrounded by people who don’t truly see you. #authenticity #RainyDay #healing #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #MentalHealth #art #GetOutside #ArtTherapy

"Your nervous system measures trust by patterns, not promises. It doesn't believe in good intentions; it believes in repeated actions." #PTSD #Lyme #ChronicPain #MentalHealth #scape #EmotionalSafety #NervousSystemDisorders It takes a lot of time & consistent feelings of emotional safety to heal.

I was diagnosed w/ #Lyme 7 years ago & tried countless things to fight it off. After the antibiotics, all food made me ill & I became scared to eat at all. I discovered that cutting out grains helped some, but eliminating toxic interactions in my life is what had the biggest impact. #HealingJourney

My body spent many years in chronic fight or flight.. #LymeDisease #Celiacs #NervousSystemDysfyunction #ArtJournal #CollageArtist #Healing #EmotionalProcessing

"Suffering comes from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power." #Epictetus #quotes #photography #abandoned #BlueSkyArt #psychology #MentalHealthAwaereness

It drives me crazy when I hear the phrase, "People don't change." It's so inaccurate.. We are constantly making adjustments, learning, and growing.. The only people that never change are narcissists, because they lack the ability to self-reflect. #photography #SelfReflection #BlueSkyArt #Sequoia

Listen to Yourself #Intuition #TrustYourself #NoGaslighting #collage #ArtJournal #MixedMedia #junkjournal

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. |Charles M. Blow| #quotes #photography #healing #PureMichigan #BlueSkyArtShow #Frankfort #lighthouse #growth

"You deserve to be in an environment that brings out the softness in you, not the survival in you." #RonneBrown #quotes #healing #growth #flowers #photography #BlueSkyArt

The first half of life is about becoming who you needed to be to survive. the second half is about unraveling everything that no longer aligns with your soul's purpose. That's not a midlife crisis -- it's a rebirth. |Ella Hicks| #photography #healing #growth #MyLife #BeMe #FormerPeoplePleaser

I'm having a hard time adjusting to real life after traveling for a month. #ArtJournal #CollageArtist #BackToReality

"Risk can be dangerous, but routine can be deadly. Comfort has killed more dreams than daring ever did." #PauloCoelho #quotes #Chicago #Illinois #photography #LTrain #BlueSkyArtShow

33 days to travel across the country was not enough time. It was a good way to scout everything out, though. I know I definitely want to go back to Glacier National Park and spend more time there. #LoganPass #Glacier #NationalParks #photography #challenge #cloudsandsky #ShowMeSomething

When empathy is absent, people feel like it's okay to push their values onto others. They even justify it in their mind that it's somehow reasonable to try to control people who don't conform to their limited ways of thinking.. #NoEmpathyNoLiberty #PoliceState #USA #CollageArtist #ArtJournal

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Last stop of my journey - Chicago #Chicago #trains #photography

Thai garden at Olbrich Botanical Gardens #Madison #Wisconsin #gardens #photography

Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI #Wisconsin #gardens #photography #lillies

We hiked to this Supper Club from our campground in Mirror Lake State Park #Wisconsin #OldFashion #WisconsinDells #IshnalaSupperClub #hike

Devil's Lake, Wisconsin #WisconsinStateParks #hiking #photography #lakeside

I can't spend another season of my life repeating what hasn't been working.. #EmotionalHealing #ArtJournal #SelfConfidence #NewLife #BreakingOldPatterns

This phrase from the book about BPD really hit me: "Revisit the unspoken bargain you've struck with your partner that their needs and views are always, always more important and more right than yours." I made this painting a year ago, and I now I completely understand why I was feeling like this.