Personality Drawing Board

When learning to be yourself is your hardest challenge yet

This is a comic strip about the masks we wear when we haven't learned to recognize and process our emotions.

I am guilty of this and used to pride myself on hiding my feelings and having a high threshold for pain - until all the emotions caught up with me and ran me over like a double-decker bus. I wasn’t prepared and I didn’t know how to face them one at a time, much less all at once.

Here is a cartoon from 2017:

An early cartoon, titled “Universe, Tough Love,” 2017, by Connie Sun

Recovery has been a long journey - imperfect and ongoing. It’s a process to learn to face strong feelings upfront or at least not bury them so deep that they are irretrievable. As messy as they are, our emotional selves make up a vital part of who we really are. I’m learning to embrace all of it, one cartoon at a time.