My Mouth-Terpiece

Listening to my inner voice set me on a healing creative path…

Jennifer Sosich, 48, Taranaki, NZ.

Chatting with my friend Mai, as we wandered through town, I spotted a $2 shop across the road. “Do you mind if we have a little look around?” I asked her. “Of course not,” she said. It was 2013, and although I’d studied social science at Rotorua Polytech, I’d always been creative and loved to paint. So, it was no surprise later when I came out of the shop armed with brushes and canvases. Back home, I set everything up, but as I went to grab a brush with my hand, I heard a voice in my head. Use your mouth, it said. I’d been born with the condition arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, meaning the joints in my limbs hadn’t developed in the womb. Due to this, I found using my…

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