03/04/2026
It’s been quite a slow year financially with sales, as with my health and other things going on with my family I haven’t sold very much. But I am incredibly grateful to have sold what I have in this current economic climate. I so appreciate every single one of you who like, share, comment on a post and even purchase something that I have made.
I often lay in bed at night and an idea of something to create will start to form in my mind and I’ll think, I wonder if that will work? So I’ll try and sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn’t! It’s all a creative learning process! Art is my therapy. It’s given me a purpose after I felt like the light had been snuffed out. After I felt worthless as I couldn’t do anything anymore.
When I see the happiness on someone’s face when they like something I have pondered over, designed and then created, you cannot imagine the fulfilment this gives me. It’s very different from the jobs I used to do before my brain surgeries. But I love that I can do this whilst also supporting Headway Essex.
Like I said, it’s been a slower year, but I can never stop thinking there for the grace of God go I. The people that I left behind in hospital who never made it out in Neuro ICU. The families whose lives are changed forever. So yesterday at the end of the financial year, I donated £117. It’s a lot more than 10% of my profits. But I know it makes a huge difference. This amount could help sponsor a brain injury case worker for a day.
I will never forget how Headway helped me. Always being at the end of a phone for people like me. They may just think, “I’m just doing my job.” Well please rest assured, you’re not. It takes a special person to understand and advise someone who feels that helplessness and loss. That grief over their old life slipping away as they realise nothing will ever be the same again. So thank you Headway, and if I could give you one hundred times more, please know, I would.
And for those of you who may be struggling - please never forget the battles you have fought and won.
Love Tracy 🥰
One of the people admitted to hospital every 58 minutes in Essex with an acquired brain injury.