The Take Care of Number One project is a personal series I began in 2025. It gently captures the seven distinct types of rest that make up true self-care — putting yourself first so you can truly be present for everything else.

Real intention, genuine interest, passion, and the pure desire to live and create all flow more freely when you’re properly rested. That’s when your thoughts become clear and audible, your limits feel acceptable, and what you actually want comes into sharp, honest focus.

This level of rest often seems like an impossible luxury — something only the overly pampered would even consider. Or worse, we’ve somehow started to glorify the opposite: that wired, pre-collapse state where we push to the absolute edge, quietly proud that we’ve crammed a month’s work into a single day.

Yet the project was born from a quiet opposite intention: to reframe free time as rich, varied rest — emotional, mental, physical, creative, and beyond.

These illustrations were used for postcards and a few group calendars, but a more complex product is coming soon, with all the original intentions kept intact. An update will appear on the site shortly.