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I live with ADHD, which means my mind is always in motion: full of ideas, connections, and moments of wonder. I am also prone to overwhelm and creative resistance. Creating hasn’t always been easy or consistent for me, but it has always been essential.

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During a particularly difficult period of my life, when I was living with debilitating chronic pain, I discovered something unexpected: when I was making art, my mind shifted. The pain softened. My attention moved. For a while, I could breathe again. That experience fundamentally changed my relationship with creativity. I stopped seeing art as something I had to be “good at” and started seeing it as something that could hold me and be a place of refuge, relief, and quiet joy.

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Today, my work is rooted in the belief that creativity is not about productivity or perfection, but about presence. I’m especially interested in how small, gentle creative practices can support us through hard seasons  and how art can help us stay connected to ourselves and to joy, even when the world feels heavy.

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The Radical Joy Project grew out of this belief. It’s not about denying reality or glossing over pain. It’s about choosing again and again to let joy exist alongside grief, resistance, fatigue, and uncertainty. In my work, joy becomes a soft form of protest: a refusal to let despair have the final word.

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Through my art and writing, I invite others especially sensitive, tired, creative, and neurodivergent people to slow down, begin again and remember that joy is not frivolous. It is brave. It is necessary. And it belongs to all of us.