Hello everyone 
Leo in his Burntisland station studio.
The painting being held by Leo is available - birth of a space goblin.
Here's a long art and health and everything update, including details of an absolute bargain transformational course my friend runs a few times a year. A course which has helped me so hugely on my recent personal and art journey. BS To Bliss. The next dates of this course are 16th to 19th June 2025, ie starts on Monday!
Book your place here but do read on to discover my story:
My Story
If you already follow me via my mailing list or my social media you probably already know that in January 2025 I came radically out of a period of many months and in fact many years of chronic, intense, and eventually debilitating anxiety. I find it very hard to believe how awful things were for me back then and I am so grateful for and so proud of where I am now. Of who I am now compared to Leo of only half a year ago.
It's magical.
2.0 
I am completely open about the rollercoaster I have travelled and about all the steps I (eventually) took to get out of it. I have been astounded by how many other people have opened up and tell me that they too have lived with or do live with debilitating anxiety. Thank you for sharing with me.
Isn't it an honour when other people tell us their stories?
birth of a space goblin (detail), acrylic on canvas. Available
If you are someone who hasn't yet been able to open up, or perhaps haven't even yet fully realised that you are living with anxiety - I didn't realise, for years and years - I'd love you to know that if you speak people will listen.
porpoise at Kinghorn. Available
As I told in previous emails, many different friends, family, professionals, AND my own actions helped me to get out of that old state and into my new improved self. I'm sending this particular email to highlight one of the key things which has helped me so much - transformational coaching. I was so sceptical of and in fact deeply scathing of coaching, let alone transformational coaching! Whatever that was. I was so judgemental of various of our friends who are coaches or who like coaching.
Well I can tell you now, it's transformed me.
It got me out of my ever-spiralling head and back into my excitement for art, family, friends, nature, love, life. Love Life. My art inspiration, my life inspiration, is back and it's big.
rise of a space goblin, 120x150cm. SOLD
birth of a rainbow, 120x150cm. SOLD
Our friend, clinical psychologist and transformational coach, Dr Sarah Madigan, runs a twice-annual week-long online absolute bargain (£44) offering called BS to Bliss. BS to Bliss in January of this year helped my art and me so massively. It was in that space, a loving caring online group of dozens of people, that I was live-coached by Sarah. I admitted to her and to everyone just how much I want to do with my art, how much I yearned to get back to painting LARGE as I had done nearly twenty years ago at art college, and how much I wanted to let the paint flow... freely and excitingly, to see what would happen. I told the group I would order some big canvases and share a photo of my progress exactly a month from then.
A few days after the coaching session I ordered six lovely 120x150cm deep-edge canvases and three weeks after that I posted on the private facebook group a photo of the first one of the big paintings - complete! Now, five months later, I have completed five large canvases. Three of the five have already sold, as has a fourth even larger painting.
valley of the space goblin
acrylic on canvas, 150x120cm
Available, £5,000
title tbc (what do you suggest?)
acrylic on canvas, 120x150cm
Available, £5,000
I have plans for so many more. Next up I intend a series of large canvases based on this year's Isle of May trip. Here are some of the big works on paper I made out on the island this year. Some shown complete, some in progress. I loved making them. I love them. One has already sold. The others are available, message me for more pics etc.
Bishop's Cove
Isle of May cliffs. SOLD
So, I wholeheartedly recommend BS to Bliss if you want to grow yourself - your contentment, your excitement... your relationships... with yourself, everyone else, your work, the world.
Look at the link to learn more and you are most welcome to ask me more about my own experience - drsarahmadigan.com/bstobliss
I want to end by sharing my story as written by Sarah:
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When a friend unfollows you on Facebook :) - spoiler alert! happy ending! When a friend unfollows you on Facebook because the way you showed up...
“was just all too much and seemed too unreal and unbelievable and cringey and embarrassing”………
(his exact words)
Meet Leo!
Leo & Sarah
Around 6 months ago a good friend of mine was having a really awful time.
(My husband) Neil told me how our friend Leo had been experiencing chronic anxiety and panic attacks (Leo has given full permission for me to share this).
Neil said Leo was in a really bad place.
As someone who previously experienced debilitating anxiety AND as someone who really loved Leo my spirit was called to reach out.
We arranged to go on a walk after having spent some time discussing panic and anxiety via WhatsApp over Xmas.
I said to Neil “it’s interesting the timing of Leo and I going on this walk right before BS to Bliss, I’m going to invite Leo to do it”.
Neil: “I don’t think it’s Leo’s kind of thing”….
Leo had clearly thought the same as he subsequently admitted that he had unfollowed my Facebook account a while ago because
“it was just all too much and seemed too unreal and unbelievable and cringey and embarrassing”
Anyway. We had a beautiful walk in nature (walking in nature with Leo is really something else, he notices every single bird and creature it’s gorgeous).
I offered my support as a friend primarily, as someone who intimately knew anxiety and panic both personally and
professionally as a clinical psychologist, and as a powerful coach. (Really merged all my identities!)
I was spicy (i.e, reflected back to him where I thought he wasn’t taking responsibility for his own mood etc) (with his permission).
And I invited him to BS to Bliss.
He said yes.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Leo has embraced The Joy Movement with such enthusiasm it has been an absolute joy for me.
He describes what we do as “terribly terribly exciting”….
You see, ‘fear is just excitement without the breath’ - Fritz Perls (gestalt therapy).
And something between us just works!
I proved him wrong!!!! (I prove so many people wrong - because behind the sequins and wigs and high vibes,
there is so much substance and passion and love and me and the team are highly highly skilled).
Aside from utterly transforming his anxiety and panic, Leo has started painting BIG paintings (and selling many of them! - he is an amazing artist)….
cosmic voyager
acrylic on canvas, 120x150cm
SOLD
(watch cosmic voyager taking a walk through Burntisland - www.instagram.com/p/
Leo was feeling unable to enjoy painting (feeling guilty about not being with kids) and unable to enjoy the kids
when he was with them (wishing he was painting) - and now can enJOY both!
Leo's boys examining one of his latest canvases
The work we do WORKS guys.
Maybe you’re an absolute cynic. (like Leo was!)
I’m well aware my posts annoy the f out of many people. (like they did for Leo!)
And I’m never gonna stop.
Never gonna stop vibrating high and teaching and coaching and doing my thing my way.
Because IT WORKS.
I would love you to join us for Bs to Bliss.
Take a leap and a risk.
Let me prove you wrong!!!
16-19 June !
4 days !
All online from comfort of your own home !
Can watch on catch up !
Teachings and group coaching !
Celebration stations !
Inspiration galore !
Dancing (optional) !
Connection (or lurk with camera off!) !
And a chance to shake things up! !
Join us!
Sarah xxxxxxx
PS. Leo's gorgeous painting below!
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flight of a space goblin, acrylic on canvas, c.150x180cm. SOLD
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With gratitude,
Leo 2.0
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