The Feels Club

ISSUE 12 | JUNE 2018

“An Undiluted Truth”

The birth of The Feels Club

Words by Chloe Webb Founder of The Feels Club @welcometothefeelsclub

What you are about to read is a story a long time coming; a story often diluted, but now presented in its most potent honesty. My name is Chloe Webb I am the artist & writer behind The Feels Club. How did I get here? Well, like you - birth. But also like many others, more than we often realise - a journey through depression.

As cliche as it sounds art was something that found me, in the dark when I think of it. My creativity, regularly squashed & denied; began to speak to me a whole lot louder in 2015 when I had been going through a pretty turbulent time with my mental health.....

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.....Obviously, something inside me had grown sour and it became all I could taste, all I could breathe and no matter what I did all; I could present. When I returned home from the tour still disrupted with bizarre urges and little to no energy, that’s when the thought to end my life entered my mind. Once that seed was planted, the sourness fertilized it, encouraging its growth... And soon the idea burgeoned from a passing disruptive thought to a lingering voice. And more swiftly than I care to admit, into a legitimate plan that no longer frightened me. Looking back now that right there is the most frightening thought of all.....

Read more online in Issue 12 of The Eye Creative: issuu.com/theeyecreative

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