How To Heal

This piece plays with the illusion that healing could be solved by simply reading a book. The figure is fully invested in a guide titled “How to Heal,” which adds a quiet humor to the moment, because if it were that simple, we would all be fixed by now. I wanted the softness and texture of the punch needle to mirror the slow work it actually takes to care for ourselves. This piece holds both the desire for clear answers and the reality that healing is something we learn through experience, patience, and showing up for ourselves again and again.