​​​I successfully defended my thesis and completed my PhD in Visual Cultures in 2024. The thesis was examined by Dr Rachel Sweeney and Dr Molly McPhee. In this practice as research project, I approached the moving body as an ecologically entangled and storytelling medium, informed by my applied experience working in mental health crisis recovery services, and embodied research encountering somatic and dance movement improvisation practices. The activist scholarship of Mad Studies and Critical Mental Health orientate my praxis to question experiences of distress as the sole responsibility of the individual to consider how structural inequities and material environments may also generate experiences of distress in times of polycrisis. I engage embodied practices, primarily using creative movement as method, to unearth ecologically entangled and collective embodied storytelling. In this way, the methodology I developed through my practice research enables me to politicise personalised experiences in dominant approaches to mental health. The Visual Cultures doctoral researchers Counterfield Collective as well as the Embodied Research Working Group were important spaces of experimentation and reflection in the development of this praxis research.