Making sense of life through comic art - Rachael Smith
Episode 236, Jun 02, 2023, 11:56 AM
Janey chats to comic author of Glass Half Empty, Rachael Smith on making sense of life through comic art. Connection is key, join The Sober Club
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Janey chats to comic author Rachael Smith on making sense of life through comic art on the release of her highly acclaimed new book
Glass half empty
Grief, mental health problems, and a troubled childhood leading to her to self-medicating with alcohol. The pandemic made all her problems worse: she was isolated and depressed. Stuck scrolling the internet for horrible news, both global and personal. People were either terrified or bored, or a heady mixture of both. It was a weird time.
Alcohol turned from a way of making everything a party into making everything bearable. A worrying turning point. She got better through therapy, and journaling through comics. Comics are how she make sense of the world. Making comics about her life helps her work out how she is feeling about things, and she realised she was feeling pretty awful about her relationship with alcohol. She’s feeling a lot happier now.!
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Janey chats to comic author Rachael Smith on making sense of life through comic art on the release of her highly acclaimed new book
Glass half empty
Grief, mental health problems, and a troubled childhood leading to her to self-medicating with alcohol. The pandemic made all her problems worse: she was isolated and depressed. Stuck scrolling the internet for horrible news, both global and personal. People were either terrified or bored, or a heady mixture of both. It was a weird time.
Alcohol turned from a way of making everything a party into making everything bearable. A worrying turning point. She got better through therapy, and journaling through comics. Comics are how she make sense of the world. Making comics about her life helps her work out how she is feeling about things, and she realised she was feeling pretty awful about her relationship with alcohol. She’s feeling a lot happier now.!
Events
STOP PRESS - To celebrate the 250th episode of this podcast we are hosting a meet up and live podcast recording on Tuesday Aug 15 at 6.30 in London - special guests will be the first few guests who were on the podcast when it launched, William Porter, Laura Willougby and Clare Pooley
Tickets will be on sale soon at www.thesoberclub.com/events/
Sat Aug 19 its Sober by the Sea in Southend, join us to create a vision board and focus on what you want for the future - click on events
Follow Janey on social media - always reach out! @janeyleegrace
Interested in being a Sober Coach?
Get in touch for a chat.