Spring Projects: Liminality & Run on Sentences

May 19

It’s been a while, friends! I am the throes of everything and nothing. It’s that liminal phase where I’m working with my eyes on an eventual deadline that seems like it will never come yet is also coming far too quickly.

Time is weird, isn’t it? Wibbly wobbly.

It feels strange to show you the in between. I don’t have a new event or a new product. No final anything to share. In lieu, I’ll tell you about the projects that I’m working on:

Project One: Coloring Book Client Work

A few months ago, a prospective client reached out via instagram. I was incredibly shocked to discover that this person was 1) not a bot and 2) someone with both vision and a budget. Absolutely shocking.

I developed thumbnails, drafts, and now I’m finalizing the lines on 20 coloring pages which will be made into a book for use in therapy work. I love that this project has pulled together my love of mental health care and art. Can’t wait to show it to you!

Project Two: Developmental Psych Prerequisite Units

I am also taking a developmental psych course, which means reading and discussion and papers and all that. It hasn’t consumed my time, thankfully, but it has taken a large amount of focus this spring. I’m familiar with the concepts that are covered in the class, but it’s been great to learn the terms and theories behind them.

Remember me saying I wanted to pursue an art therapy masters? Well, this is the work. One prereq at a time, getting me ready to apply to programs. I’m not even planning on taking a class in the fall, but I’m hoping all be ready to take another next spring. It’s painstakingly slow, but that’s what I need right now. My life is full; my capacity is limited.

Project Three: Reading too Many Books

I have a lot of exciting books floating around my house. I splurged on them, too, because the library (which I love dearly) was not going to cut it.

The Glitch Logs: Hard Reset by Rachel Beck. I have waited so long for this novel, and it’s everything I hoped it’d be. Rachel Beck is a friend and I’m so proud of her work, her skill, her thoughtfulness, and her all around badassery. Buy her whole series, please.
Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. I borrowed this one from the library, and just flipping through once convinced me that I needed to buy my own. Why? So I could underline everything. If you’re opposed to writing in books, forgive me. I must. I must. I must.
On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, & the Gifts of Neurodiversity by Daniel Bowman Jr. This book is a huge source of relief. There’s a special type of mental rest I experience when interacting with neurodivergent people. It’s an at home and free sort of feeling. I’m thankful for Bowman.
Where Prayer Becomes Real by Kyle Strobel and John Coe. I wish I had this book years ago. Where I’m at now, it’s mostly echoing what I’ve learned through crises of faith, and don’t we all wish we could learn things without having to go through crises? Even so, it is good.

Project Four, Five, Six…

If you’ve been part of my creative community at all, you know that I have a hard time limiting my focus to just a few projects. I also am running a writing group, a youtube channel, a therapeutic art group, I’m in contact with an art therapist who would like me to run sessions for her, and I’m writing a book proposal for a nonfiction book and writing a story and collecting coloring pages for another coloring book that I’d like to self-publish. How’s that for a run on sentence? Run on sentence… an apt metaphor for my life come to think of it. Lol.

I’ve had a lot on my mind lately and I think it’s fair to include neurodivergence research as a project in and of itself. But that’s a rollercoaster of a story for another time.

Well, I’ve got to finish this update so I can get on my other tasks! Thanks for reading this far. I hope you have a fantastic, creativity-filled week.

Thank you!

I appreciate your care, your kindness, and your support. Please purchase the I Am Enough coloring book to color along with the YouTube series.