Pain into Passion

Over my working life, my anxiety has developed as each environment taught me new things, and others left me feeling traumatized by the way I was treated. As I have embarked on my own personal journey to overcome the repercussions of this, it has become my responsibility to learn and share these management tools with those around me.

Following the horrible ways, I was treated, my passion has become people, and being a person that lives to spread more kindness.

It makes me so sad basic kindness is so difficult for humanity at times, and it makes me so frustrated when it feels so simple to be kind. So, with my whole being I hope to share my little happy piece of the world that I have created, using my experiences and challenges and hard moments as an example, with the hope that just one person does not feel alone anymore because they relate to my story.

I am 33, and consider myself a professional anxious overthinker. I have triggered anxiety which comes from past experiences that get set off in present moments. Sometimes it is a daily challenge to get up and face the world. Other times it’s much easier through my various management techniques that I have discovered along the way.

Most recently I have found the thing that I can do to truly help people, Art therapy. Using creativity to inspire happiness, and release endorphins to help the body cope and fight the challenge of anxiety.

Through my website, www.kismetmindfulness.com.au, and my Facebook group, I am trying to offer my insights and inspiration to be more creative. I decided that why learn how to take care of just my anxiety, so I chose to learn in a way that I can harness that knowledge to help others too.

What I do at the moment, is give free content. I fund this through my Virtual Assistant business where I help my clients gain more time back in their day, through doing the tasks that would take them a long time.

I would love to develop it into a more hands on course where I can offer people online personal classes they can do in their own time from home, I would also like to develop online 1:1 zoom classes and face to face opportunities.

All of my ideas can expand in so many directions, including a 100 day of prompts email automation, adding people to the group and providing a place for them all to share their artworks and be supported.

Growing up, I have always been interested in exploring art and craft, and developing it into a management tool for my anxiety has been greatly successful. I am studying art therapy to help enhance those skills and how to turn my creativity into something effective. I feel like it is my responsibility to share my trauma in a way that can help and heal someone else. Even just one person, would be enough, but more, would be a blessing.

Through my social media platforms, I try to share the all the things that make me happy. It ranges from walking, animals, and my art. I love that people respond and tell me that they enjoy seeing my posts, so I would love to scale it up to be more and mean more to people.

I have found through the power of music and art, using it in different forms, I have been able to manage my emotions and find it easier to cope with what I am experiencing. While I feel sad to know my story would be relatable, I hope to make the best of what I have been through by letting others know that they too, can survive.