Dear ArtHeart:

You are welcome. Good to read from you again. So art journals were your favorite mode of self care, drawing and adding color. Later on you started writing in them. now they are mostly made with paper for using watercolor, acrylic, other pain, markers, inks and collage. I didn’t watch the YouTube videos, but I imagine once you paint one page with watercolors or acrylics you have to let the page dry, so you separate it from the other pages of the journal until it dries, correct?

I wish I knew about art journals earlier in my life, it would have helped me a whole lot, as a form of creative self expression. Good to read you enjoyed visiting your friends and that you did brief entries during the visit.

It does take self discipline in establishing a routine of activity and rest/ sleep, so to move on from the inertia of no-activity that characterizes depression.

Regarding mindful meditation, my therapist at the time forwarded me the series of mindful meditations by Mark Williams, I heard them all, very helpful and excellent quality, I think.

anita