Eye Am Counseling

29/08/2026

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29/08/2026

What if happiness is not something we need to create or strive for,...

28/08/2026

Water lilies at Thetis lake

28/08/2026

Kusama died in a Tokyo hospital on August 14 at 97, her company Yayoi Kusama Inc. said in a statement Thursday. She kept painting until her final days.

She started seeing hallucinations as a child in Matsumoto, Japan, where flowers seemed to swarm and speak to her. Drawing what she saw became a coping mechanism, and those visions of endless repeating patterns became the engine of her whole career.

She left Japan for New York in 1958, rejecting an arranged marriage her family had planned. In 1962 she sold one of her early "infinity net" paintings to fellow artists Frank Stella and Donald Judd for $75. In 2014, her painting White No. 28 sold for $7.1 million, a record at the time for a living female artist.

She always said white male artists, Andy Warhol among them, appropriated her ideas while she was written out of art history. She staged "body festivals" with naked performers painted in polka dots, presented uninvited work at the 1966 Venice Biennale, and once wrote to Richard Nixon offering to sleep with him in exchange for ending the Vietnam War.

After a mental health collapse, she checked herself into a Tokyo psychiatric hospital in 1977 and chose to live there permanently, working every day in a nearby studio from morning to night. The recognition that eluded her early on arrived late: retrospectives at MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Hirshhorn, and a 2024 show in Australia that became the most attended exhibition in that country's history.

"I cannot imagine how I will be classified after my death," she once said. "It feels good to be an outsider."

25/08/2026

Let’s begin.

16/08/2026

3. Emotional neglect and disconnection.

07/08/2026

After a su***de loss, I’ve seen people get stuck on one question: why.

A friend once told me about a phone call they had the night before a friend died by su***de.

Just a short conversation, nothing alarming. And for years afterward, my friend carried one sentence: "What if I'd said something different?"

Our mind almost always reaches for a moment it believes it could have changed the outcome.

Grieving a loss from su***de is complicated in this way, and if you’d like to learn more about how to support others or find support if this is a loss you’ve experience….

…I’m doing a free event with Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Su***de Prevention.

Helping With Grief After Su***de: What Helps, What Hurts, and What No One Tells You Thursday, August 20 | 12pm PT / 3pm ET Free.
One hour. And a replay sent to everyone who registers.

I invite you to join us.

Link to register is below.
https://www.davidkesslertraining.com/grief-after-su***de

05/08/2026