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Lisa Carver's Heart-Wrenching Writing: On Yoko Ono, Dissociative Identity, Parenting a Neurodiverse Child and all of the ways art relates…
"I wasn't self-taught; I tried to stay not taught at all, for as long as I could. No reading instructions, no learning techniques, no improving."
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Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
We all live on a shared continuum; our place on it varies by the extent that we learn to impose order on the psychotic chaos into which we are all born.
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Essay Collection: Books Where Art Meets Psychology
Here's where you can find what I'm writing about books I'm reading, books I've written, and the broader world of books as a reader/writer
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Art + Psychology in The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Where creativity and mental health meet in the family members of this memoir and an interview excerpt
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Craftfulness Book Review: Mend Yourself by Making Things
"Wool shops draw me to them like a magnet; their pigeon holes overflowing with all those irresistible coloured balls of promise.”
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Literature as a Lens for Understanding the Limitations and Potential of Craftivism
5 global books that celebrate the power of craft while acknowledging that it can't solve everything
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Book Review: Always Too Much and Never Enough
"It is the story of hunger – for acceptance, for love, for things indefinable – and the story of finding true comfort and joy in food."
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A Look Back at The Artist's Mind Virtual Substack Book Tour
Guest posts, author interviews, excerpts, previously unpublished sections and more ... I can't believe this event was a year ago!
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Art+Mental Health in The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
Summary, takeaways, art/journal prompts and more from this riveting novel
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Art and Mental Health Novels: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
A novel written by an author whose father and sister died by suicide, an experience woven subtly and not-so-subtly through this beautiful work
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Crafting Meaning: How to Find Belonging through Craft
Meaning vs. happiness, feeling good vs. doing good, and how to embrace a crafty community to increase meaning in your life
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When Dickens stepped in to keep me company: How reading literature gave me purpose during a time of grief
A Create Me Free guest post by Jeffrey Streeter
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