Hi... I'm Jason.

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I didn’t create The QuirkWork as a theory…  I created it because I needed something additional that actually worked for me.

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For a long time, I struggled inside in a way that was hard to explain.  I could be around people… and still feel completely disconnected.  I could be having a normal day… and suddenly feel overwhelmed or anxious for no clear reason, amongst other things.  And the hardest part was— I didn’t really understand why.

I was diagnosed with a major mental health challenge at the age of 25 and worked for years on my mental health journey of recovery and discovery.  I applied all that worked for me and came far in my healing the functioning and way that I thought.   

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In my journey of Recovery and studying and improving my own ways of thinking, I invented a new solution and modality that helped continue to ease my still inflated feelings - My Quirkz!  My emotions were turned into cute, cartoon characters because I learned eventually that it helps to package them into something I could relate to.  I also learned by doing that, referencing them in this way, gave me a fun way of talking about something that was usually a little scary.  It also gave me something that I never had before:  space.  Space to see what I was feeling... without being completely consumed by it.  Space to understand it and even respond in a calmer, more supportive way.  ​

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The QuirkWork grew out of that experience.  It’s not about getting rid of emotions.  It’s about learning how to relate to them differently.  And from that place…  feeling just a little bit better becomes possible.