This is a not-alone space for trauma healing, mental health, and survivor voices through paintings and poetry

Welcome, Dear Soul 🦋.

If you have found your way here, perhaps something inside you has been searching, maybe for words, for understanding, or simply for the quiet feeling of not being alone.

My name is Leonie.

I am a psychologist working in counselling and psychotherapy, and this blog is a space for trauma healing, mental health recovery, and survivor voices expressed through paintings and poetry.

There was a time when my life felt like a landscape of ashes. I carried wounds that had no language yet and walked through places where hope felt very far away. For a long time, I did not know how to belong in this world without disappearing. But somewhere beneath the silence, slowly, piece by piece, something inside me began to rise again.

Today I accompany people on their journeys of trauma healing and mental health recovery through counselling and psychotherapy. And still, like all of us, I remain on a path myself. This blog was born from that journey.

Here you will find paintings, poems, and reflections about trauma, mental health, healing, and the courage of survivors who keep moving forward, even when the path is uncertain.

Most of all, this space exists for one simple reason: So that anyone who arrives here might feel this truth for a moment: You are not alone.

This is a small not-alone.space
A space for survivors.
A space where even from ashes, life can begin again.

With warmth,
Leonie

You are not alone!
We grow together like flowers,
over obstacles, sometimes crooked and twisted, but always towards the light.