![Self-love, resilience, hope, depression, anxiety, trauma, internal family systems, art, drawing, mental health](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2024/05/bart-larue-jMd3WS9LBcc-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In the chaotic dance of life and amidst the tumultuous waves of trauma, people often lose sight of certain parts of themselves and sink into…
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Édouard Manet is a renowned French artist of the 19th century. He challenged artistic conventions and embraced subjects that were often controversial or unconventional. His…
![Be Productive](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/02/34220AD0-D783-41B9-B702-0468B7335607-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Many of us are familiar with the feelings of guilt that arise in the moments we deem ourselves to be “unproductive.” Entelechy, a sister duo…
![Emotionally Charged Doodles](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/12/7082233A-A140-4A2A-8DFB-8F463C8A27A7-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Alchemizing beauty from pain, creativity from chaos.” Fatima Faiyaz, a Pakistani-Canadian artist based in Ontario, is the creator behind the works collectively referred to as…
![Facing Your Demons](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/01/ayca-pexels-photo-225011-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Connor Johnstone of Toronto, Canada created his piece “Facing Your Demons”, during an all time low in his life. The drawing depicts some of the…
![Art and Schizophrenia](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/05/Never-ending-journey-Martin-Ramirez-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For the last 15 years of his life, Martin Ramirez (1895-1963) was hospitalized at the DeWitt State Hospital in Northern California with a diagnosis of…
![Visually Impaired Artist Raises $1 Million for Charity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/09/8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Twenty-one year old artist Jeffrey Hanson was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis when he was only twelve years old. This rare condition caused a tumor on his…
![Aerial Drawings By Stephen Wiltshire](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/04/autistic_artist_paints_ny_from_memory-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and found that he could communicate through his art. He has a photographic memory, and can…
![Flawed](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/11/Flawed-378x140.jpg?x81652)
The anonymous artists shares their experience with depression: “In my own personal journey with depression, I have found the words stop where the feeling begins….