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Reality is just one way of looking at things
Be Wild Be Free is one of those books that encourages us to treat ourselves (and the world around us) a little bit better with illustrations and text.
The writer, Amber Fossey worked as a doctor in the NHS for 14 years, working in mental health before she became an artist and writer and, according to the book, driven by a deep-rooted compassion for those that society rejects, mistreats and ignores and for those suffering mental anguish.
This manifests in her art, where she likes to cherish the unloved, feared and endangered. Like the tapir:
"Tapir did not know he was endangered. He couldn't be sure what tomorrow held, but he had survived today! And that was good."
Her artwork is shown on her own website as well as on Instagram under the name of Zeppelinmoon.
The Nautilus Award winning book encourages us to be like the beasts and be wild and free again through watercolor illustrations, combined with poetry and sentences.
She lets us look at life through the eyes of a sloth, an emu, a manatee, angry cats and even a blobfish. These and more animals tell us to break down the walls we build ourselves, live a little more, enjoy the beauty around us and to accept ourselves, our beautiful flawed bodies and minds.
The poetry and text is uplifting or sometimes just funny but it never gets trite. The illustrations are so colorful and fun to watch. Like a sloth doing yoga, or a polar bear in a pink field and not to mention the bear in the rainbow.
There is somewhat of a storyline in it, on how to be like the beast and act like them, but the lines and pictures also speak for themselves:
“Expressing emotion is not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign you’re alive! And not a cold, dead fish”.
Reading the book left me with a big smile on my face, a lot of feel good, and maybe I will try to be kinder to my furry little self. I am usually not that much into selfcare books but this one is so different because of the humor (and a little swear word here and there) used and the funny illustrations. It makes you think. And laugh. And that’s never a bad thing.
The writer, Amber Fossey worked as a doctor in the NHS for 14 years, working in mental health before she became an artist and writer and, according to the book, driven by a deep-rooted compassion for those that society rejects, mistreats and ignores and for those suffering mental anguish.
This manifests in her art, where she likes to cherish the unloved, feared and endangered. Like the tapir:
"Tapir did not know he was endangered. He couldn't be sure what tomorrow held, but he had survived today! And that was good."
Her artwork is shown on her own website as well as on Instagram under the name of Zeppelinmoon.
The Nautilus Award winning book encourages us to be like the beasts and be wild and free again through watercolor illustrations, combined with poetry and sentences.
She lets us look at life through the eyes of a sloth, an emu, a manatee, angry cats and even a blobfish. These and more animals tell us to break down the walls we build ourselves, live a little more, enjoy the beauty around us and to accept ourselves, our beautiful flawed bodies and minds.
The poetry and text is uplifting or sometimes just funny but it never gets trite. The illustrations are so colorful and fun to watch. Like a sloth doing yoga, or a polar bear in a pink field and not to mention the bear in the rainbow.
There is somewhat of a storyline in it, on how to be like the beast and act like them, but the lines and pictures also speak for themselves:
“Expressing emotion is not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign you’re alive! And not a cold, dead fish”.
Reading the book left me with a big smile on my face, a lot of feel good, and maybe I will try to be kinder to my furry little self. I am usually not that much into selfcare books but this one is so different because of the humor (and a little swear word here and there) used and the funny illustrations. It makes you think. And laugh. And that’s never a bad thing.
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