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My Distraction Lolly Sticks. A Bunch of lolly sticks in a mug, each with a different distraction or soothing technique written on it.
December 17, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 6: Self Soothing

A sillhouetted branch of thorns, with writing over them which reads, trying to deny something I'm ashamed of is like a thorn in the knickers.
October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 4: Integration

A little heap of small stones tumbling out of a bag. Writing on one of them is visible and reads, paint or draw.
September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 3: Coping Stones

A grey stone rests on fabric with a floral pattern. There is purple writing on the stone which reads, to live is to be vulnerable.
September 18, 2019September 29, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 2: But won’t being vulnerable make me really vulnerable…?

A bad watercolour picture I painted of a person in a small dinghy with the name Self-Help on its stern.
September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Welcome to my Voyage on the Good Ship Self-Help

The background is cream coloured and the font an old-fashioned typewriter looking font. The text reads, hey Mum, I’m feeling really lonely and if you have a minute in the next day or two would you mind popping into my room so we can have a chat? The edges of the text have been cut off.
July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Why Can’t I Just Ask For Stuff?

the sillhouette of a white woman paddling in the sea with the sun low behind her
September 13, 2018January 20, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Self-Care Is What We Need It To Be

a strip of faded cotton fabric, frayed at the edges
June 9, 2018January 31, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

On The Nurturing Of My Senses

a long path disappearing into a tunnel of trees, everything covered with several inches of snow
October 11, 2017January 31, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Surviving Winter

two white women doing star jumps against a blue sky
September 12, 2017October 17, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

10 Ways You Can Help A Mentally Ill Friend

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