We're here to catch you if you fall

Visual Treat #9

Welcome to Resurface, with me, Tamzin Merivale.

I’m an intuitive artist, writer and mentor, and this space is for creating deeper connections not only to others, but to parts of ourselves that have been forgotten, neglected, or are waiting to be discovered. It’s time to see the unseen, to hear the unheard. My mission is to show you just how much you light up the world around you, simply by existing. You can learn more about how I do this here.

At the beginning of every month, I post a “Visual Treat” — an illustration or a photograph alongside a short prompt. See it as a chance to give our eyes a rest, a moment of calm and mindfulness.

Dragonfly Print available on request, or as a greeting card here.

Before the glass shatters

I prepared this from one of my favourite cafes, and as I leant over to pick up a pen, I knocked my glass of water off the table, just barely managing to catch it before it smashed on the floor (phew).

I often feel like that glass — in free-fall, unable to grab onto anything, sensing the impending smash — but I catch myself, over and over again. I pick myself back up to keep trying, to keep using my voice in the hopes of empowering others to do the same, to keep creating things despite endless reasons not to.

With my clients, I aim to provide a space in which they can fall and pick themselves back up, where they can learn to catch themselves pre- or mid-fall, where they can smash everything to pieces, if they want to, and build something fresh instead.

Whenever I can be the hand that reaches out to catch you before you crack, then I will be.

If you’ve already collapsed, then you can rely on me to guide you to gather the pieces up, to pull you back up to your feet, and encourage you to take up more space.

Because, honestly, we need you.

We need to hear from you.

We need your voice to join the chorus.

Prompt:

In what areas of your life, if any, do you feel as though you’re in freefall? What can you do to stop the fall?

Think of a time when it felt as though everything was smashed to pieces — how did you put yourself or your life back together?

Is there somewhere you wish you could join the chorus right now, but haven’t?

Tamzin xx

P. S.

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