Hi I’m Dione and I’m a worrier
Now I say that I work with people who have depression and anxiety and childhood trauma and I haven't really talked about them very much. I don't think I have. Maybe I have. Anyway I just want to talk to you a little bit about anxiety and how I recognized that anxiety...
Is colouring art therapy?
Hi everyone. I've been cleaning up and sorting out and I found a colouring book, an adult colouring book. And I thought I should just talk to you a little bit about it. I wonder if some of you used to participate in the adult colouring book field or if some of you...
An art activity for depression
I wanted to talk to you today about art activities you can do that might help with depression. And it's so interesting because you can't just go "Well here, this activity will solve depression". It's not the way it works. But as I was thinking about what would I do if...
What is art journalling?
I wanted to talk to you today about my great passion art journalling. What is art journalling? I'm on a couple of Facebook groups for art journalling and people ask - some newbies come on and say "What actually is art journaling?" and of course there is no one...
Making goal setting work for you
"Hi everyone I wanted to talk to you a little about goals. I am not a great goals person, personally I find them a lot of pressure. I don't like it. Finding ways to make goal setting work for you But I did find some ways that goals worked for me and one of those was...
How to have an awesome beautiful life
I want to share with you another lesson from my old scrapbooking pages. An imperfect scrapbook page Now I'm gonna show you a page which I quite like and it's interesting because this page has nothing fancy in it. It has ugly photos of me, not pretty photos. Photos...
What even is happiness?
Hello again! I've got another art journal page to share with you. Definitions of happiness This is, actually, I've got two quotes I want to share with you about happiness. Happiness is a word I don't really relate to. I prefer to use the word joy. And I just don't...
It’s time to talk about anxiety
Anxiety is different for everyone. Really different. There's lots of things that are the same for lots of people and you can find a list online of things that people have identified for themselves, that show that they have anxiety. You might resonate with lots of...
Childhood trauma comes in all kinds
Are there different types of trauma? I had an email from someone yesterday that asked "Do I work with kids who have trauma from other areas? Other than sexual abuse? That have had - I don't mean kids - I mean adults who had trauma in their childhood? That maybe came...