[Re-upload of a newsletter from Oct 14, 2025, for the archive]
So, honestly, I really don't know how to introduce this. It's kind of awkward to jump in, but.. here I go!
As many of you may have understood from my self-love kickstarters, I have CPTSD from childhood trauma, and have been working on healing ever since I realized my childhood was even considered traumatic, around 6 years ago.
I've been wanting to write and draw "trauma comics" ("comics" not in a funny sense, just the generic strip-of-art sense) ever since I finished a summer of EMDR therapy (the first big turning point for me, 5 years ago), but never knew how or why or what they'd look like.
Late last year, the urge to express my deepest and darkest thoughts increased significantly for some reason -- perhaps because I felt like I got to a certain checkpoint in healing??... I've done a lot of practice talking to my parts, and built a vague handwavy amount of self-love and self-worth, and I can look back without feeling completely consumed by trauma... so... that's something! I mentally decided I would actually, really do it. Somehow.
It took me many months from there, to get from decision-making to actually putting pen to paper, but this summer I finally managed to carve out some time, and start creating some pieces that I'm now genuinely quite proud of. They express my feelings in a way I've never been able to before, and I think that's pretty cool. Sharing it is rather terrifying, so I've been delaying for months already haha, but I think I'm finally ready. The first chapter is really just about... how difficult it has been to even start.
I have four "chapters" in my back pocket now (they are standalone long-form comics / pieces, but I also don't know what else to call them other than chapters ahaha), and I'll be releasing them one at a time, every Tuesday for the next few weeks, to give them each some space to breathe. After that, I'll just be uploading them sporadically, which really just means, whenever I feel compelled to make another one.
The first chapter and a tiny little preface are uploaded now, and you can check it out here:
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Sharing Sent with Dandelions is.... hmm. This is either an unimaginably huge step for me, orrrr it's just been built up way too hard in my head because I've been sitting on this idea for years now, and sitting on these huge long-form comics for months.
Regardless of whether or not you're interested in reading it, thank you for being here! <3
All the best,
Jessica