between process & possibility

A design + wellbeing journal exploring the questions, connections and emotions that emerge
in the space between design process and transformative possibility.

Denise Shanté Denise Shanté

Less Brokenness, More Peace

When you’re so used to feeling pain and experiencing loss and heartbreak and trauma, you start to believe you are that pain, loss, heartbreak, and trauma. It’s a toxic relationship that you become attached to, dangerously dependent upon, and it’s scary to think that you may lose the very part of yourself that has been so close, so comforting even with its psychological turmoil and self-destructive patterns.

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Denise Shanté Denise Shanté

Trying to Do a Thing

I was deep in the process of creating something so personally meaningful and also felt a wave of emotions pulling me into an anticlimactic ending that barely recognized joy.

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