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Living with Chronic Illness: Learning to Live with Constant Interruptions Through Art Therapy
Living with chronic illness means living with constant interruptions. Flare-ups, fatigue and pain can change plans in an instant. Discover how art therapy can help you explore these patterns, adapt with compassion and reconnect with your creativity.

Ellen
Jul 163 min read


"No one wants to hear about your sickness" Chronic illness and feeling heard.
Many people living with chronic illness feel unheard or unable to share their full experience. This blog explores the silence around illness and how art therapy can provide a space where your story doesn’t have to be minimised.

Ellen
Feb 272 min read


Christmas unwrapped- the gifts we didn’t ask for
If Christmas feels heavy this year, you’re not alone. This piece gently explores the feelings we carry and the possibility of unwrapping them with care.

Ellen
Dec 23, 20252 min read


When You just don’t want to: Welcoming Resistance in Chronic Illness and Art Therapy
Feeling resistant to change or therapy while living with chronic illness? This gentle, reflective blog explores why resistance is natural and how art therapy can help you face challenges at your own pace.

Ellen
Dec 12, 20253 min read


What happens in Art therapy? 5 reasons why an Art Therapist would Make Art Alongside You
Sometimes in art therapy, your therapist might sit alongside you and make art too. This isn’t to take the spotlight—it’s a way of saying you’re not alone here. Creating together can make it easier to begin, soften the space between you, and help you feel truly seen and supported.

Ellen
Sep 4, 20253 min read


You Don’t Need to Be ‘Well Enough’ for Art Therapy: How Creativity Can Support You During Chronic Illness Flare-Ups
You don’t need to be well to go to therapy.
Bring your slowness, your fogginess, your silence — it’s all welcome.
Art therapy can meet you exactly as you are, even on the hardest chronic illness days.

Ellen
May 22, 20253 min read


Pictures of You: Art therapy, chronic illness and identity.
"Living with chronic illness can feel like being caught between who you were and who you want to be. Art therapy to see the big picture.

Ellen
Mar 18, 20253 min read


Rebuilding the picture of our lives. Using Art therapy to help chronic illness
If your life has been thrown up into the air following a diagnosis, here are some ways art therapy could help you rebuild

Ellen
Feb 11, 20252 min read


"But it can't cure me, so why bother" Six good reasons to try art therapy for chronic illness
Life with chronic illness can bring up all kinds of mixed feelings. But I urge you to keep going! Give hope a fighting chance.

Ellen
Jan 7, 20253 min read


Two ways that Art therapy can help someone living with chronic illness
We don't need to talk when the art says it better.
It's your choice.

Ellen
Dec 16, 20243 min read


Health-ache and heartache. Art Therapy for the brokenness that comes with chronic illness
Health-ache and heartache. Art therapy for the brokenness that comes with chronic illness

Ellen
Nov 15, 20242 min read


Expressing the Invisible: Using Art Therapy to explore the fatigue that comes with chronic illness
Fatigue and chronic illness using art therapy to describe the experience of living with chronic illness

Ellen
Nov 5, 20243 min read
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