2025/6 | acrylic on canvas | 24cm x 30 cm

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?

The Toxic Spiral of Looking for Purpose in Suffering

TW: Religious Abuse | The deadly consequences of silence

A little holiday self-destruction and deconstruction

This Leaf | A Poem by Joyclam

Why I Don't Celebrate (If I Don't Want To)

My Lyme Story: Here I had it - the brain region responsible for all my problems, past and present: ADD, Depression, & psychiatric Lyme

My Lyme Story: When you are raised since conception with the teaching that you're a guilty depraved sinner deserving of eternal punishment, and the only cure is to die to self and become someone else... how do you NOT become self-destructive; i.e. autoimmune?

My Lyme Story: If we were raised in a culture of "No Pain, No Gain" or "suffering for Christ", how could we ever accept self-care and rest for healing?

If I am to remember God's love in my darkest times, I would ask Him to remember what it's like to grieve so hard you drown the whole world.

The Power of Validating our Lived Experience | In my health and trauma work over the past few years, I’ve come to explore and accept the very necessary concept of non-dualistic thinking; yin and yang, opposite but essential, both true… “yes, and.” It's usually called "both/and" thinking.

Maybe the key to violence in our world is the fact that we are all walking around with loaded weapons.

Hating yourself will literally destroy your brain and body with illness. Hating your self will destroy your view of God and love for others