Artist Azalia Suhaimi, a mum of two, is making parents feel less alone, one Instagram post at a time.
In her work, she enjoys capturing the raw and real moments of parenthood, raising awareness of maternal mental health issues and offering solidarity to other parents in the thick of it.
Suhaimi’s kids are now ages eight and four. She said this is her favourite phase of motherhood so far. “I can finally sit a bit and reflect on all the lessons I’ve learned from the struggles of early motherhood the past few years. And you can see these reflections on my artworks.”As an artist, Suhaimi hopes to make parents feel less alone in their own journeys, whatever they’re going through.
“Parenthood is hard and messy as it is, so it’s nice to have solidarity, and a safe space where we can talk about the hard things without being judged and where our feelings are validated,” she says. “And I hope my artworks provide that safe space.”“Some of my darkest moments of parenthood were really made darker simply because I wasn’t kind to myself,” she said. “I easily judged myself and concluded myself as a bad mom when what I faced was simply just a bad day.
For Suhaimi, learning to practise self-compassion made “a whole lot of difference” in how she parents her kids and in her motherhood experience.“So I hope that my artwork can help remind other parents and myself too – I still need the reminder – to practise self-compassion,” she says.
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