Settling into Vancouver after a big move from Toronto, EA is figuring out how to find balance in our busy world while managing her mental health and wellness. In this episode, she opens up about some really low times she’s experienced that landed her in the hospital, and how writing, photography and art help her look after her mental wellbeing.

EA demonstrates some incredible vulnerability on her social media platforms, and opens up about some personal stories from her past with us during this conversation. Her self awareness and ownership of behaviour is really admirable, as you’ll hear in the stories she shares. She opens up about MDD, and what living through psychotic episodes can feel like.

EA shares the whys and whats behind her “zine” – her self published booklet called “Strange and Mysterious Creatures,” and how this personal diary helps her maintain her creativity and share her sense of humour and even the darker sides of life as she knows it. This platform allows EA a space for her own personal narratives through her past, which is woven with emotional and physical abuse, self-harm, trauma and substance abuse.

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LINKS:

Broken Pencil – Canzine

EA Douglas’s Website, Newsletters, and Online Shop!

The Artist’s Way – Morning Pages

EA’s Instagram @ea.douglas

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