This September is the first anniversary of Future Pathways, an organisation that supports people in Scotland who have experienced abuse while in care as a child. To celebrate their first birthday, Future Pathways want to celebrate the creativity of the people they serve. The My Journey creative showcase is an opportunity for people affected by […]
Archive | Arts and creativity
Expression of Depression Through Art
A couple of months back I shared some work by Christopher Grady AKA Lunarbaboon, an artist who tries to make sense of the world and family life through his comics. I came across another artist today, Sow Ay, who also tackles the daily battle with depression and anxiety through art. You can find more of […]
The Orchestration of my Anxiety
We’re pleased to present a poem from our newest community correspondent, Maureen Gilmour. It’s called The Orchestration of My Anxiety. Tap, tap,the conductor holds his baton….here it starts. Drum roll…..thrumming vibration in my torso….the tremor, shaking begins. Palpitations. …faster and faster the beat increases. My heart pounding in my ears, the echo like a Base […]
The Creative Competition 2017 is now open!
We are pleased to announce the launch of our third annual Creative Competition in partnership with Scottish Recovery Network, Write to Recovery, Reachout with Arts in Mind and Alliance Scotland. This year is centred around the theme of Change. We would like you to think about: What you think needs to change in Scotland to […]
A lighter side to life’s little struggles from Lunarbaboon
If you’ve never come across the wonderful comics from Christopher Grady AKA Lunarbaboon then you should definitely check them out. They show a positive, and very funny side to the every day struggles of parenthood, life, depression, and much more. Be warned, you might lose a lot of time in the website! All images used […]
I honestly feel like writing is saving my life
Angela McCrimmon, author of “Can You Hear Me Now? Finding My Voice In A System That Stole It”, tells us what recovery means to her. I had to stop and still my mind to think of 5 things that recovery means to me. Simply because I can actually think of 500! If I had been […]
Finding hope in the most difficult places
Our Community Correspondent Robert Terry wrote this untitled poem about finding hope when we see so many upsetting stories in the news. my heart bleeds for Charlotte, North Carolina now it breaks for Burlington, Washington State and am moved too tears for the innocents slaughtered martyred in the name of fear Spiritual Angels accepting, […]
In my madness
From our Community Correspondent Derek Read In my madness… In my madness I thought I had the solution all the pieces of the jigsaw fitted perfectly in my mind the codes, the magic numbers I was one with the Spirit could heal every wrong had the answer deep within me As I recovered, slowly, from […]
When I Iisten to music, what’s inside comes out
Our theme at the moment is music and wellbeing. At our Community Correspondents meeting recently we talked about our favourite music and what it makes us feel. We love this idea that came from one of our Community Correspondents. Sometimes, feelings can be a lot to deal with. Whether it’s joy or despair, we don’t […]
Happy birthday Write to Recovery!
This month Write to Recovery celebrated two years of supporting people to develop and share personal stories of mental health and recovery. Write to Recovery, which is part of the Scottish Recovery Network, aims to empower people affected by mental health problems to experience recovery by creating and taking control of their own story. It […]