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Hej 😊

I'm Mone.

A peaceful, vegan and detail-loving dog mom, a nature lover from Hamburg, a bookworm, deeply in love with my beloved island of Amrum, and I'm so happy you're reading these lines right now.

This profile is about my art as a form of therapy.

The picture isn't that old, but I have a buzz cut now, as you can see in my stories from time to time.

My heart beats for ceramics, wood (I trained as a carpenter many, many years ago, before I decided on a career in psychosocial work), and glass – but the most for metal jewelry, which moves us and, in the best case, triggers magical feelings full of glimmer.

I also love photography, being by myself and music.

In 2012 I founded the blog "meine 7 leben" and have since written over 200 posts in which I put my emotions into words.

I've been chronically ill since childhood, severely disabled, and live 24/7 with many symptoms such as severe pain, spasticity, and severe fatigue because of primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis, CRPS, hEDS, Clusterheadache, ME/CFS and other "daily demons".

An early stage of Cervical Cancer has been part of my life since Christmas 2024.

Very late, at the age of 43, I received a diagnosis of Asperger’s (high-functioning) autism - or rather, since the term "Asperger's" is no longer preferred for very good and important reasons:

I am autistic.

Though it had already been suspected for a good year prior; so much makes sense to me now because of it, and unlike the other physical diagnoses, this realization is a blessing for me:

I am NOT wrong, too much, too little, or strange.

Unfortunately, I can no longer pursue my job as a team manager in the psychosocial field as a Pain & Palliative Nurse.

Making art is a kind of a deeply calming process and a "rock in the storm" for me, especially as a woman living on the autistic spectrum.

So, over the past few years, I've been learning a very engaging form of slowness.

I'm grateful for EVERY good moment in which my body can cope with this.

It's all the more wonderful when I can bring joy to other people (like you) with my one of a kind jewelry pieces.

All the best,
Mone

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