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          Jaeda DeWalt, Artist.

        1. I come from a long history of women who exemplified resiliency, overcame tremendous challenges, loved deeply and worked diligently throughout their lives.
        2. When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.
        3. “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” ― Jaeda Dewalt.
        4. The DeWalt Industrial Tool Company is an American worldwide manufacturer of power tools and hand tools for the construction, manufacturing and woodworking.

          5. When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience..

          Please welcome first-time contributor Jaeda DeWalt, a conceptual self-portrait artist in her forties from Seattle, Washington.

          Her battles with mental illness hearken back to her earliest memories, at age 4, when she became obsessed with the number four and performed exhaustive rituals in patterns of four. During her teen years, she began noticing extreme mood swings, manic one moment and depressed the next, and in her late 20&#;s she finally sought treatment and was diagnosed with Bipolar, OCD, PTSD, Anxiety, and ADHD.

          Her doctors told her they believed the mental illness was brought on by a severe concussion she sustained at age two, along with the trauma of being sexually abused as a child into her young adult years.

          Jaeda DeWalt: 'Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability.

          Her life was filled with self-destructive coping methods until she went full force into creating, in her mid-twenties. The process of creating and putting herself in front of the camera felt cathartic, liberating and healing. The photographic medium opened up a new