Psychology Art

I believe art can help make complex concepts a little easier to understand. For visual thinkers, seeing a concept illustrated can help make connections. Even for those who don’t identify as visual thinkers, seeing an illustration can help us remember a concept in a more meaningful way than if we just reading about it or are told about it. In this category I’ve collected my psychology illustrations, comics, and visuals that don’t seem to fit in other, more specific, categories.

Intergenerational Trauma – Illustration and Questionnaire

If you aren’t naming and breaking the cycles that have entangled you, you are participating in them. This is true in most systems we are …

Magical Thinking

Magical thinking is a normal phase in childhood in which we think that our thoughts- or totally random, unrelated events- can change the future. Lots …

A Flowchart for Getting to Sleep – A Playful take on Sleep Hygiene

A flowchart for getting to sleep. We all know how elusive sleep can be, but quality sleep is essential for physical and mental health. When …

Pyramid of Crisis Response & Planning – A Visual

The nature of crisis is that it’s (1) overwhelming, and (2) inevitable. Whether you are a clinician in the helping professions or a person …

How We Tend to Cope with Anxiety Falls on a Spectrum

Everyone has a different “default” way of coping with anxiety- and many of us will experience a shift from one extreme to the other at …

Urge Surfing, Alternatives, and Harm Reduction

To follow my post earlier this week on developing (new) coping skills rather than attempting to just desert our old ones, here are a few …

Recovery Isn’t “Getting Rid” Of Negative Coping Skills, It’s Learning New Skills

If you’ve avoided recovery because giving up the only-ways-you-know-to-survive feels overwhelming, know that the goal of good therapy isn’t “stopping certain behaviors” it’s SO MUCH …

Understanding The Help Rejecting Complainer Mindset

Most of us know one or two help rejecting complainers. It can be tempting to get frustrated, give up, or get “even,” but when we …

Illustrated Embodied Grounding Exercise – Free Printable

Get a free PDF copy of this art: Social media can be a dark, divisive place sometimes. On the other end of the …

Red Flags for Early Stage Schizophrenia- an Infographic

Schizophrenia is among the most debilitating mental health disorders- so much so that there is still a lot of stigma around the diagnosis. The …

What Psychology Research Says about Why We Like Getting Scared – Illustrated

Ghost Attachment Styles

Attachment styles illustrated as ghosts. To learn more about attachment styles and how the way we tend to relate to others can be plotted on …

Disclosing Trauma in New Relationships 101

In a culture where “vulnerability” can sometimes feel like relational currency, it’s easy to fall into a trap of disclosing trauma stories before a new …

How we Give Language to Traumatic Events Changes how we Heal

For a while now, the terminology of both “victim” and “survivor” has sat uneasily with me. Both terms center the traumatic experience as part …

Untreated Depression can Cause Permanent Changes in the Brain

Results of a recent study confirmed what has long been suspected: “neurodegeneration underpins disease progression when major depressive disorder is left untreated,” In layman’s …