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Protecting My Voice Online: The Move to Bluehost

Protecting My Voice Online: The Move to Bluehost

Yesterday I moved my blog's hosting from Wordpress.com to Bluehost where I am now self hosting my blog and domain. This was considerably more work and upkeep than just keeping it on a platform like Wordpress, and anyone who has followed my blog for any length of

One Week Update on My Mental Health Journey

One Week Update on My Mental Health Journey

It’s been one week since I made the decision to cut my medication in half. I came off Strattera completely and lowered the dose of my other meds too. The difference has been striking. My mind feels clearer. I can actually keep up with Jeopardy questions again, catching them

Tapering Meds and Self Curses

It’s day four of my medication journey, and I’m feeling surprisingly good so far. I’ve halved all my dosages, and the tapering process has been smoother than I expected. There’s always a bit of nervousness in the back of my mind about how my body and

Tapering Off: A New Chapter in My Healing

I’ve started tapering off my medications. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and after talking it through with my therapist, he gave me the green light, as long as I check in with him along the way. I’m only three days in, but

Today’s Art & Rethinking My Healing

I spent today creating, pouring out fragments of myself onto virtual canvas. The shapes, colors, and textures felt like small truths surfacing, things I couldn’t quite put into words but needed to express. Each piece carried a mix of heaviness and lightness, as if my inner world was trying

Eyes Within the Chaos

Lately, I’ve been exploring a new way of creating art, drawing by hand, but digitally. These pieces you see here are part of that journey. They carry the same raw energy and emotion that I pour into my pen and marker work, but now I have the freedom to

My Journey with Art and AI: Finding Calm Amid Autism and Bipolar

Hello, everyone! I'm excited (and a little nervous) to share my personal story today. As someone living with autism and bipolar disorder, life can feel like a whirlwind of emotions, sensory overloads, and racing thoughts. But over the past few years, I've discovered a powerful duo

From Canvas to Code: My Journey from Traditional Art to AI Creations and a New Chapter on X

Hey everyone! If you've been following my artistic adventures, you know I've poured my heart into creating beautiful pieces that blend emotion, color, and storytelling. But today, I'm excited (and a little nervous) to share a big pivot in my creative world. After years

New Art Style and Updates

I hope everyone is doing well this week. I've had a busy week so I'll try not to go on too long. I have an art show in a gallery coming up Friday the 13th in Austin at Propaganda HQ a new art gallery. The show

My Big Win Over Anxiety

I was debating posting about this but I try to be as real as possible. For years Ivr had social anxiety and since before COVID at times it's debilitating. Since the end of lockdown, I haven't attended an event or show without my wife with me.

The Minefield of Being an Indie Artist

Sorry I have been so quiet as of late, but I've been navigating the art and social media world trying to find the best place and methods to sell art, create art and what events to attend and vend at. One thing I've been up to

Casting My Witchy Spells

I've talked about my affirmations and manifestations before as I return down a witchy path. I had been exploring Buddhism for several months, and there was a lot of things I loved about it, but also a lot of restrictions and at least in more Westernized forms of

Reconnecting with my inner Witch

I know I did a whole blog series on finding Buddhism, and there are a lot of elements to Buddhism I really appreciate, I just find it a bit tricky to keep up with in practice. I'd been a practicing witch and pagan for years before, so decided

Fighting My Own Toxic Positivity

I always try to be as real as possible on my mental health journey. Sometimes I catch myself feeding into some not so healthy things. I started on this journey about 5 or 6 years ago. I won't go into gory details other than I had a bad

A Lost Brother

April was the 6 yr anniversary of my older Brother's funeral. He was 5 years older than me. Growing up we never got along. I always wanted a real older brother, but he treated me like an annoyance and regularly beat on me like I was his personal

Attack of the Crazy Cats!

It may or may not be a secret that I love cats. We got our first cat, Loki around 3 years ago. We found him cold and shivering outside of a convenience store. We've since added 2 more cats and they each have their own distinctive personalities. You

An Artist's Journey and Frustrations

Being an artist can be filled with frustration and trials. Nothing about it is easy. Thankfully I have a job I do from home that pays the bills, but allows me the time to pursue my art dreams. That said, some days I wonder if this will ever happen. As

My First Local Art Show

I haven't posted anything in a while and I apologize for that. I've had a lot going on here and had a medication change that has me readjusting some things. In the meantime I set up my art at a local art show. It was quite

My First Day in My New Art Studio

For the longest time, I did only digital art on my couch, because I had no room in our 800 square foot to do full on painting and such. Its fun and I love digital, but it has its limitations when it comes to experience and texture. Recently a few

Experimenting With Acrylic Paint

So My art journey has been wild and weird since I started on it three years ago. I've done digital art on my tablet for the past year or so because it was just easier and cleaner and we don't have tons of room in my

Making it Through Jury Duty with Social Anxiety

I Haven't written a blog in a couple days, but real life has had my attention a bit too much. Yesterday I had jury duty and while it turned out to be pretty easy, my head built it up into a lot. I had originally been scheduled for

Public Scrutiny Process Video

So I've never done one before, but a few people asked me to make a video showing my process. I guess people have never seen digital "liquid" art like mine. So despite my nervousness I went ahead and did one. Go easy on me! I won&

My Art from Today and Analysis

I didn't get a fancy blog done today, my apology one was pretty heavy, and I just felt kind of off today. I did do a lot of art by hand on my tablet and I feel like taking a few months to do other things has really

Getting Back in the Groove of Abstract Art

I started doing traditional art around three years ago. I started out drawing by hand and doodling and worked my way through about a dozen mediums before I settled on digital art using a Samsung Tablet and the Infinite Painter app. The reason was mostly a pragmatic one. I was