Reflecting on my "life with spoons"
During the recent online meeting for staff with disabilities,
we talked about "spoon theory" and life with spoons.
https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illness-explained-like-never-before#1
I usually express myself better and more fully through my visual creativity and through art.
I’ve created this digital painting about what "spoon management" means for my life - juggling being a full time carer, working part time for the NHS, thinking about further studies, being a full time Mum, a housewife, being an artist with many dreams, being a person with a number of very complex chronic health conditions and just being neurodiverse me.
Yes, life seems to be very full, but also positive and hopeful. After many years of not seeing a clear direction for my personal development in terms of career / study progression, a door seems to be slowly, very slowly, opening... step by step... I have tried to paint how all of this links with my "spoonie life".
Art is a journey, a journey of new openings.
This painting is about life juggling with spoons, a life of many colours,
a life of joy, pain, hopes and dreams
