The Fearless Pursuit of Creative Living

Art is healing. I create pen & ink surrealist art, narrative driven stories, and practical tools for strengthening mind, body, and spirit. My joy is to assist others through creative healing. What would you like to create? Come on in, the water's fine.

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ART & RESOURCES

Welcome to the Art & Resources section.

Here you'll find expressions and reflections on living the threefold path

of mental, physical, and spiritual wellness.

These are my best attempts to assist those in need of understanding.

You don't have to walk the path alone.

I'll hold the lantern, you put the pen to paper...

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  • Anxiety
  • Art of Recovery
  • Bipolar
  • Creativity
  • Day in the Life
  • Depression
  • Mania
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Wellness
  • Mixed Episodes
  • Mood Swings
  • Psychosis
  • PTSD
  • Recovery
  • Self-Love
  • Wellness
This blog heading image for the article "PTSD: Post Episode Recovery," is a piece of black and white artwork illustrating the unsettling feelings of experiencing a post-traumatic stress disorder flashback. There are dark abstract shapes descending from the top of the art, where hooks, blood, snakes, claws, and a gunman dangle from. These objects hover closely above a man who is half-asleep and clearly feeling fearful, with one eye open, witnessing these scary things that look like they are coming for him.
PTSD: Post Episode Recovery
Black and white abstract art depicting the trials and tribulations of love. As the header blog image for an article about Self-Love, the art illustrates flying hearts with wings being targeted by arrows, kissing lips being snagged by a hooked line, a figure to the left side opening a door that says "Do Not Enter," and the silhouette of a shark and its fins coming from below.
Self-Love: The Lasting, Sustainable Accomplishment
This is a black and white drawing by the author of the article depicting a bipolar mixed episode. Two human figures are seen in outline only, overlapping each other with frenzied energy. The larger figure has an abstract Native American headdress on. On the left of these figures, a devilish character riding a sharp spear is heading towards a raging, rearing bull under a half moon. Lightning bolts are coming in from the righthand side toward the entangled figures. Despite being cutoff by the frame, the artistic message around the art reads "LET ME OUT!"
Bipolar Mixed Episodes – The Gateway To Hell
This is a black and white illustration of many random abstract shapes sprawled around randomly next to a large, very finely drawn, mandala-like flower. The artwork symbolizes finding zen and beauty within the random mess of life and its many parts, illustrating the subject matter of the article, “Bipolar Mood Swings and Navigating Toward Zen.” The random shapes include lightning bolts, flying kites, stars of different shapes and sizes, and other more abstract icons.
Bipolar Mood Swings & Navigating Toward Zen
This is a piece of black and white artwork depicting how the artist feels when under the influences of anxiety. The symptoms of anxiety are exemplified by characters with different faces dancing on an abstract heart while it beats, along with other faces, stars, and the artist’s rendering of outer space. Other shapes, like tear drops, arrowheads, and wings are present in random order to illustrate chaos.
Anxiety is a Future Tripping Cosmonaut
This is a piece of black and white art depicting a depressed man laying down in bed with a depression monster reaching out from the corner of the room. There's a clock on the wall, but the numbers are falling off, relaying that time doesn't matter when you're depressed. There's a window above the man in bed with nighttime and daytime shown. Dirty socks are on the floor, and a bedside lamp is knocked over on the floor.
Depression: The Big Black Blob
This image is mostly black and white abstract art depicting the chaos and wild nature of the artist's interpretation of a psychotic break. There are strange, alien-like faces, liminal space, outer space, and a rattlesnake heading into a triangle filled asteroid belt. The text in the top of the image is the title of the blog post: Can you heal from a psychotic break?
Can You Heal From a Psychotic Break?
This is a piece of black and white abstract expressionist art depicting the hope and wild energy of mental health recovery. The art is filled with characters, such as swimming fish, a smiling monk, a hummingbird attracted to a lightbulb-centered flower, and a roaring dinosaur.
Mental Wellness and Recovery – Finding the “Good Side”
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TESTIMONIALS

David Rahn

“Jake is a great guy, I’ve watched him go through a heap of challenges, and come out the other end. Now he's helping people recover, and his style is refreshing. Jake’s art is intriguing and his holistic approach inspires hope.”

David Rahn - Lecturer, CSU Chico

Christina Kantzavelos 2

“Talking to Jake is relaxing and enjoyable while I work through my challenges. He makes me feel safe and understood. Jake is extraordinarily compassionate. He creates a safe space and an environment for healing.”

Christina Kantzavelos - Founder, Begin Within Today - LCSW

This is a book cover and piece of artwork by Jake R. Wade. There is a figure with one eye missing its heart region diving down to retrieve its other eye. The figure's eye is being held by a giant hand, implied to be the ocean, which is also the wave that threatens to toss the figure around. There is a silhouette of a shark behind the diving figure in the distance of the ocean. Seaweed grows on the bottom of the art piece, signifying depth.

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...LIFE AFTER LOSING IT -- The Art of Recovery, is an interactive art book inspired by true events. The black and white, "outsider art" pieces detail what it's like to lose your mind, and the meandering path back towards stability, sanity, and freedom.

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