Becoming and Homecoming | The joy of turning back the clock, second chances, and rediscovering myself

How does your sense of identity affect your immune system? If we immigrate and force integration without an adjustment period, are we setting ourselves up for a health crisis?

I healed for THIS?! Nah, I'm good.

Trading Diagnoses for Stages and Frameworks in Healing | A big part of healing my nervous system, I believe, was to accept the weirdness, love it, and give myself the freedom to explore it without judgment, without labels, without diagnoses, treatments, or suppression.

The Toxic Spiral of Looking for Purpose in Suffering

It's long and hard and lonely sometimes; no one tells you how to come back from the dead. But I made a promise I intend to keep with every fiber of my being: if I got a second chance at all the things I loved and took for granted, I wouldn’t waste it this time on fear and self-doubt. I was gonna live.

TW: Religious Abuse | The deadly consequences of silence

2024 | acrylic on canvas | 20cm x 20 cm

This Tickaversary post is purposely, joyously, and miraculously late. I had a feeling long ago that it might be, and I began so many drafts of this post throughout the year to get a head start, trying to remember my experiences and progress. But so much happens in the meantime that what I wrote (which felt Really Big and Important at the time) always seems so small and insignificant. Or rather, the lessons I learned incorporate so fluidly into my life that they become routi

"Mochirella" - Homemade dairy-free mozzarella sticks without gluten, soy, corn, nuts, or preservatives

A little holiday self-destruction and deconstruction

This Leaf | A Poem by Joyclam

2023 | recycled materials | 27" x 15"

Can I respect everything in its season – winter, exhaustion, rest, grief? Can I honor Sabbath, transition, liminal spaces, unknowing?

2023 | marker on paper | 7" x 5"