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I draw diary comics and autobiographical cartoons to explore lived experience, feelings, and everyday life… and invite you to do the same, with guides, tips and resources!
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Diary Comics: Week 14
Juni is keeping Zara up all night with a phantom pregnancy…
Diary Comics: Week 13
It’s my birthday week, but the old dog of depression is in the air…
Diary Comics: Week 12
I’m feeling inspired… but how productive am I really being?
Diary Comics: Week 11
I started tapering off my medication this week, and was worried about getting "brain zaps".
Diary Comics: Week 10
This weeks of diary comics is a mixed bag of ups and downs, as Zara receives some disappointing news...
Diary Comics: Week 9
In this week's diary comics the struggle is real! Find out what lifts Zara's spirits...
Diary Comics: Week 8
In this week’s daily diary comics Depression literally makes an appearance!
Diary Comics: Week 7
Zara M. prepares herself for another stressful week, and trust me, there is PLENTY to be stressed about!
Diary Comics: Week 6
Zara M. is struggling with all sorts of things in the diary comic this week, but she also has a Eureka Moment!
Diary Comics: Week 5
Not the best week of diary comics for Zara M. She can't talk about it yet, but find out how she's distracting herself...
Diary Comics: Week 4
In this week's diary comics, Zara M. is struggling with the side effects of her meds. Find out what happens when she misses a pill...
Diary Comics: Week 3
This week in the diary comics of Zara M... there's a heat wave (in more ways than one!) Plus, drama at the Birdie Buffet...
Diary Comics: Week 2
Find out what I've been getting up to during the week in my round-up of daily diary comics.
Oversharing: A cartoon about boobs and family
A funny cartoon about boobs and family, and a story sharing how I have felt about breasts, growing up.
Diary Comics: Week 1
I'm excited to announce the launch of my new thing... DAILY DIARY COMICS, published every evenings over on my growing Instagram account.
A silly story about walking your dog after dark
I hadn't realised that walking my dog after work when the clocks went back would be so complicated...
Sunday Scaries and other days of the week
Halloween seemed like the perfect opportunity to share the mental health horrors of a week-in-the-life of yours truly...
Set your own goals, live life on your terms
Explore with me why this virtual badge of honour boosted my mood for like - 30 seconds - and how to achieve true satisfaction!
Creating art for mental health: Screaming into the void
I read an article that interviewed artists on "The mental health benefits of creating art" and decided that I belonged in it too!
The dreaded 'Inbox Vortex'
Who else relates to the idea that their inbox is like a vortex?
Landlord vs tenant cartoon: Is the idea of "home" an illusion for tenants?
Faced with the prospect of being homeless again, I freaked out and drew this funny cartoon, depicting the battle between landlord and tenant
Cartoon about grief: How a death in the family made me manic
A funny cartoon and personal story about how differently people respond to and grieve a death in the family
Stories about hypomania: There's "happy" and then there's hypomania...
A funny cartoon (true) story about how I nearly smothered my niece while hypomanic.
Walking the dog is thinking time
This is how I walk my dog (and I wonder why I’m not a CEO yet). It wasn’t always like this though. It’s not that I’m a pushover or that I don’t have the skills! Once upon a time my dog knew how to ‘heel’. Hell, once upon a time I even ran my own business teaching other people’s pups how to ‘heel’. My problem is that I lack consistency, which is why I bring this story to LinkedIn (which was where this story was originally published, in case you didn't get that) . I keep readin
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