drawing during therapy

Part self-exploration, part meditation, part coping mechanism.

Starting last year, I embarked on my first dedicated experience with Exposure Response Prevention therapy. This is the best clinical treatment for OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). But I have to say, I was having a hard time motivating myself and I was scared. One day, I broke out my iPad during therapy as a sort of self-soothing activity as I knew it was going to be a particularly hard session. Afterward, I posted the drawing on instagram and was shocked by the reaction. I never realized people would connect so much to what felt like a very weird and interpretive journal entry. After that (and a conversation with my therapist) I decided to begin drawing and posting a meditative piece during/after every therapy session. This is the gallery of those drawings. While this feels scary and intimate in a way that pokes at my vulnerabilities, I know that there are many people out there who experience similar feelings and experiences. I hope that in sharing these pieces which all have been drawn during one of my therapy sessions, that people will experience feelings of acceptance and peace.