“I worry, you know? I worry about other young artist reading about my mental health struggles and saying damn- if she’s still suffering, with an actual job in the arts- how am I ever going to get anywhere. Mental health matters, and I have resisted deeply the status of “Crazy Artist.” I have dived deeply into “Fully functioning Elder Millennial with past Childhood Trauma.” This demand on my body, to ignore the healing still to do, by trying to reflect the healing we have done, weakens me.

I need my strength for the road ahead. I need to cultivate my energy. To move it through my body, and allow myself to be as healed as I actually am. To be healed, I have to allow myself to still need healing.”