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"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


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


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


Working with stuck moments and hesitation through art
Art Therapy can help you to notice, work with and practice moving through any stuck-ness in life .

Ellen
Sep 23, 20240 min read


Why Art therapy? (a poem)
Sharing some art related memories that influenced me to become an Art Therapist. Plus why you should try art therapy too.

Ellen
Sep 18, 20242 min read


One of the beautiful things about therapy
Being heard in therapy can have a positive impact on your real life.
Wouldn't that be nice?

Ellen
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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