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How to Make Your Own Mental Health Zine

Posted by strange on February 12, 2019
How to Make Your Own Mental Health Zine

Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published booklets that anyone can make. You can make them different sizes, and put anything you’d like inside them. Below is a prompt to make your own mental health zine, instructions on how to create it, and four examples of mental health zines created by The Strange is Beautiful’s staff.

Posted in: Lily Ren, Mental Health Zines, Sanjana, Sarah Smith*, Self-Care Practices, Shannen | Tagged: anxiety zine, depression zine, how to make a mental health zine, how to make a zine, lily ren, mental health zines, mental illness zine, mind obstacles, nataline ziola, sanjana manjeshwar, shannen roberts, the strange is beautiful, zines

Zine Review: “Processes: A Meditation” by Terra Olvr

Posted by strange on February 6, 2019
Zine Review: “Processes: A Meditation” by Terra Olvr

There are many different ways to meditate that have been proven to calm your anxiety, depression or other mind obstacles, and to ground you. Some people like guided ones, where a person is speaking for the entire time and tells them what to do or visualize. Others enjoy practicing in silence, and simply letting the mind journey and wander to wherever it needs to explore. “Processes: A Meditation,” a zine by Terra Olvr (she/they) that I bought at their San Francisco Zine Fest table in 2018, is an inbetween option.

For each set of pages, there’s one philosophical sentence on the right-hand page that seems to both acknowledge daily mistakes and struggles, and to encourage taking healthier choices of self-love. And on the left-hand page, there’s a drawing representing what it would look like in a meditative physical form or “how the verses live in the body,” said Olvr.

Posted in: Media Reviews, Shannen | Tagged: #thestrangeisbeautiful, an old blue light, and still to sleep, lgbtq author, lgbtq poet, meditation zine, poc author, poc poet, processes: a meditation, recenter press, san francisco zine fest, sf zine fest, shannen roberts, terra olvr, the strange is beautiful, vipassana, zines

A Love Letter to Myself: Self-Love Zine

Posted by strange on February 22, 2018
A Love Letter to Myself: Self-Love Zine

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A Love Letter To Myself

Dear Kelly:

I’m going to be honest, I’ve been wanting to express my love for you in person but I couldn’t get myself to do it. So I wrote you this love letter instead.

Posted in: Advice for Mind Obstacles, Kelly Duarte, Self Care | Tagged: kelly duarte, self care zine, self love zine, the strange is beautiful, write a love letter to yourself, zines, zinester

PREMIERE: “theCHILD” by Enrique Jesus Hernandez for SADCORE SUNDAYS

Posted by strange on October 8, 2017
PREMIERE: "theCHILD" by Enrique Jesus Hernandez for SADCORE SUNDAYS

We just featured Enrique Jesus Hernandez in our domestic and sexual abuse zine, “It’s not as simple as just leaving,” available for free here. I am honored to have been given the opportunity to present his new video for “theCHILD” from his recently released Hunger City EP.

Posted in: Georgia St. Jones, Sadcore Sundays, Sadcore Sundays Features | Tagged: domestic abuse awareness, domestic violence awareness month, dvam, enrique jesus hernandez, georgia st. jones, it's not as simple as just leaving, music blog, music blogger, music premiere, music video, new music video, poc artist, poc music, premiere, queer artist, queer music, sexual abuse awareness, the strange is beautiful, theCHILD, zine, zines, zinester

The Strange is Beautiful 2017 Goals and Recap

Posted by strange on January 1, 2017
The Strange is Beautiful 2017 Goals and Recap

It’s easy to lose sight of why you started something – the genuine, root, pure catalyst. Below I’ve revisited the root reasons I started The Strange is Beautiful (TSIB), the original goals and the actions I’ve taken, which goals have changed and the future goals for TSIB in 2017 and beyond <3 <3 <3

Posted in: Uncategorized | Tagged: alternative medicine, anxiety, anxiety relief, anxiety support, beat depression, blog, blogger, chingona fire, depression, famous instagrammers, fringe music fix, gift exchange, goal setting, goals, her campus, hercampus, instagram, la zine fest, mental health blog, new years resolution, panic attacks, sadcore sundays, secret santa, self care, self help, self love, self-care gift exchange, set goals, sf zine fest, the strange is beautiful, Yoga for Mind Obstacles, yoga instructor, zine fest, zines
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