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This zine and original character is ✨️ME✨️ and it's part of my story:

I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and to simplify; it is a chronic immune disease that attacks your brain. 🔥🧠 Beig diagnosed was heart wrenching for me, but the devastating part was when I had severe hand tremors and could not make art for months at a time. Art is literally a part of my identity and I put in the work to manage my health the best I was able to.

None of this is medical advice, it is just my experience and what worked for me. I had to change my lifestyle habits and really emphasize my mental health and work on healing my trauma. I can not afford medicine or treatment so homeopathic remedies, diet changes and counseling were my main focuses to get better. I quit my toxic job, left an abusive relationship, struggled and overcame so much. When I went back to get my brain scanned at the hospital the neurologists looked at me 👀 surprised that my brain lesions were healing💖 I believe in myself and my capabilities and I healed my brain lesions 💪🔥 I will continue to take care of myself, my mental health, my art and my life. This whole MS journey has blessed me with new perspective and inner strength.💫💜🌸

I could write a book to be honest about my life and experiences with trauma, healing and art at this point. A lot of people don't know how trauma happens, what it is and what it does to your brain and body. Trauma is linked to literal brain damage and many chronic illnesses (M.S., arthritis, IBS, Lupus, POTS) Be kind to yourself and others for everyone's mental and physical well being 💗

💖 We can heal ourselves and the world little by little, by understanding, educating, and considering the importance of mental health and its link to chronic illnesses. I highly recommend the book The Body Keeps the Score if you want to learn more on this subject.💫 Knowledge is power and healing💫 Art is therapy 🎨💖

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Real giant jewel beetle with preserved mushroom, dried flowers and sun bleached snail shell.🌷🌸🌹🪲✨️

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Day 12 of revealing my art to fine my target audience ✨️🍄🌿🌌

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“To us decay is death, but to nature it is another beginning.”- Steven Callahan

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Real mushroom curio art reveal 🍄✨️

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Some pretty things I've been working on lately ✨️💕🌿💖💫🪲

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My favorite piece I've made lately 🥺 Real stag beetle, orb weaver spider, teal damselfly, mouse skull, crystals, honeycomb, preserved mushroom dried flowers and more! Watch till the end for a surprise ✨️🪲🍄🌿

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Day 11 of revealing my art because art should be shared 💜✨️🔪🪲☁️💖 “Life is a flow of changes both transient and ephemeral.”-Debasish Mridha

This piece will be displayed @pancakesandbooze February 22nd at Brick at Blue Star in San Antonio. I will be there with my art and I must say seeing them in person is totally different! Looking forward to the event and seeing yall there 🥰

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Day 9 of revealing my art💫 This tryptic series Pardigm Shift I, II & III holds a lot of spiritual meaning for me. I started these paintings when I was dealing with my first prediagnosis symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, diagnosis and healing journey💖 I put a lot of symbolism very personal to me in these pieces before I even realized it🥺 My heart's emotions to my hands which were affected by the MS, tremors kept me from being able to create for sometime, to the eye and honeycomb that represent inner healing and perspective.

“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.” - Paulo Coelho

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot change, shift your energy to what you can create.”- Roy Bennett

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”― Joshua Kai

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Day 10 of revealing my art to find my target audience ✨️ Dreamscape I, II & III.💫💜

“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.” - Paul Cezanne💙🌤

“…And meet the deity in common things. Nature shall live to manifest secret God. The Spirit shall take up the human play, this earthly life become the life divine.”- Savitri, Book 11, Canto 1. 🌅💖

“There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter everyday. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.”-James Faust 🌌🦋

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Day 9 of revealing my art💫 This tryptic series Pardigm Shift I, II & III holds a lot of spiritual meaning for me. I started these paintings when I was dealing with my first prediagnosis symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, diagnosis and healing journey💖 I put a lot of symbolism very personal to me in these pieces before I even realized it🥺 My heart's emotions to my hands which were affected by the MS, tremors kept me from being able to create for sometime, to the eye and honeycomb that represent inner healing and perspective.

“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.” - Paulo Coelho

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot change, shift your energy to what you can create.”- Roy Bennett

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”― Joshua Kai

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Sleeping kirby on a mushroom.💖💤🍄 Fan art terrarium with fairy lights, dried flowers, preserved mushrooms, quartz crystals and more.✨️

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Day 8 of revealing my art to find my people 🍄✨️ “All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.” - Arthur Aufderheide✨️🍄

Fun fact I've made 150+ artworks over the past decade. I have about 60 pieces still in my possession while the rest have been sold or given away to loved ones 🥺 I think that's pretty neat 💕

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Cute totoro and sprites light up vintage terrarium, with dried flowers, preserved mushrooms, moss, quartz and snail shell.��💕✨️

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Precious togepi and clefairy bebes having a snooze together in the enchanted mushroom forest 😭✨️🍄💖🥰 I didn't know I could make something like this till I did! 🥺

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Precious togepi and clefairy bebes having a snooze together in the enchanted mushroom forest 😭✨️🍄💖🥰 I didn't know I could make something like this till I did! 🥺

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I saved some Japanese art postcards from the literal trash ✨️ And used them in my real butterfly collages along with some thrifted frames 🦋

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♥️👁✨️My Sacred Heart✨️👁♥️

"Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together."- Linda Thompson