I often ask myself if what I’m doing is the right thing. I have only so much time and I want to use it wisely. Is art my way forwards, and if so what type of art? Would I do better leaving my job to become a full time artist? Is writing more my forte? … Read more
Am I doing the right thing? Am I just wasting my time? Is there something better I could be doing? Oh shiny,! maybe I should be doing this instead? I don’t know where I’m going with this… I’ve had many doubts about what I should do with my life. Last year I seemingly had an … Read more
‘Our life is what our thoughts make it’ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations To find happiness, we have to deal with the suffering we experience. I used to suffer badly with anger and loneliness. Angry, I would get so angry. I was alone and hurting. I looked out at the world with a glare, feeling as if … Read more
In my extreme anxiety days, it was all about the mind. That is whats going on, what I thought, how I felt. To overcome the trap of thinking so much that is anxiety I had to go elsewhere. A place most of us forget we have until we suffer. Our physical body. Anxiety is overthinking … Read more
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. Dan Gilbert These words of a psychologist point out the fundamental mistakes we make when it comes to who and what we are. Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem: We think these are features that define who we are, and there is nothing we can do … Read more
‘I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth’ Umberto Eco At some point in our lives, we ask ourselves ‘why am I here?’ Why does the cosmos, and therefore … Read more