I’ve been working on this new therapy comic zine for a few weeks. I wanted the important text to be really clear so I’ve used a collage approach, pasting in printed words.

A year ago I read Janina Fisher’s book, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors”. It includes an exercise at the end called Five Steps for Unblending.

Blending, a term from parts therapy (e.g., Internal Family Systems), happens when our present self is flooded with emotions from a child part. As we identify as that part we may experience age regression as we act or speak from our blended state.

I’ve turned these steps into a zine because this process has helped me grow and heal so much over the past year.

https://imgur.com/a/4xjCSoL click through to see all 8 pages of the zine.