“With Rae’s help, I have been connecting with my inner parts — the different facets or identities within me. I recently discovered www.heromachine.com, which is a wonderfully retro flash website where you can create your own characters. It’s designed for fantasy games like D&D, but I really enjoyed using it to make avatars to represent my parts. It feels really good to be creative and to connect with myself in this way. I made avatars for three of the parts that I’ve been wor

“Sephy was an extension of a drawing I had done previously and was now creating out of clay. The process was more deliberate and controlled despite working through a chaotic emotion (anger). I tried not to get frustrated with the “imperfections” and differences from the original drawing. But anger isn’t precisely as we wish it would be, we can only control it to the best of our ability, Ferris was an organic creation. My hands molded him as I talked without any planning going

Minifigs support participants to express and explore inner experiences in ways that feel safe, creative and contained. They are...

“I have been exploring the concept of the compassionate other in therapy. This involves being a supportive friend to yourself. I’m...

“This is an extension on my continued exploration of my personality parts focused on my teacher part Mx Nelberry (they/them) The teacher,...

“This artwork captures a moment of my Self energy meeting with a tender part. Self is opening up and the tender part feels the embrace....

“This is all the parts of me; the ones I didn’t ask for, the ones I worked hard to get and the ones I work with well. I am in the process...

In The Tender Parts, part memoir, part self-help, Ilyise Kennedy leads you through the process of meeting, embracing, and tending to your...

“These are parts of me that came to my attention through a body scan experience. I payed attention to where each part showed up in my...