Anger & Fear A Sketch Series

Learning to trust intimacy again after narcissistic abuse is huge theme in the collective that is being triggered right now in order to heal.
~ Maryam Hasanaa

According, to the Kubler-Ross Model grief, is experienced and overcome in five stages; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. This has not been my experience. My experience in conscious healing has not been a clear-cut ascension to recovery, like organized classes you graduate from or coursework you complete. For me, this phenomenon has been (is and continues to be) a shifting of identity layers, overlapping emotions and shocking realizations. Piling trauma left me with no choice but to heal, and to cope with the process I sketched as I felt, I wrote the pain indulged in different art forms, and read about the foreign feelings in my body the result … a sketch series that began with anger and fear.

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