Zentangle’s 2025 Mental Health Awareness Month 21-Day Challenge – Chronology

To honor May’s Mental Health Awareness Month, recently Zentangle HQ launched a 21-day “challenge”: the 2025 Bijou Be Well Series.

The video series also introduces new Bijouisms each day from May 10th through May 30th.

The new Bijouisms are introduced through a daily video lesson:

During this challenge, we will delve into one tangle on one square tile each day and allow the pen to soothe our soul.

Each video lesson is accompanied by Native American-style flute music by Rick Roberts. With its calming effects and gentle tranquility, we think it’s the perfect soundtrack for creating Zentangle art. Rick plays all the songs on flutes he carved himself. We invite you to find 15-20 minutes to tangle along with us!

This article is a chronology containing links to the daily video and will be updated each day when the new video is published. Be sure to bookmark this page and revisit it for the daily link.

RESOURCES:

• • Zentangle May 2, 2025 newsletter introducing the 2025 Bijou Be Well Series and explaining what to expect
  • Bijou Bundles – available from the Zentangle Store through May 2025 only
  • Subscribe to Zentangle’s newsletter here
  • Zentangle Wrap Up post summarizing the “images and wisdoms” behind each of the new Bijouisms (note: Bijouisms #37, 41 and 47 were not included in this 21-Day series)

Below is a list with links to the daily videos for this series, click the Day title to go to its video on YouTube. NOTE: The full video for each tangle is also added to the corresponding tangle’s page on TanglePatterns.

Day 1 – Saturday, May 10

Bijouism #25 – Embrace, NOT Erase. Julie Willand tangles Tidal. (8:53)

Day 2 – Sunday, May 11

Bijouism #28 – Elegance of Limits. Molly tangles Munchin. (9:13)

Day 3 – Monday, May 12

Bijouism #31 – Pause. Maria tangles Mysteria. (13:30)

Day 4 – Tuesday, May 13

Bijouism #34 – Love your work. Molly’s daughter Mazzy tangles Tortuca. (7:18)

Day 5 – Wednesday, May 14

Bijouism #26 – Share. Martha tangles Pepper. (9:44)

Day 6 – Thursday, May 15

Bijouism #29 – Respect. Martha tangles Diva Dance. (11:05)

Day 7 – Friday, May 16

Bijouism #32 – It’s the Journey. Rick tangles Huggins. (11:21)

Day 8 – Saturday, May 17

Bijouism #35 – I can decide. Julie tangles Drupe. (10:05)

Day 9 – Sunday, May 18

Bijouism #27 – Take another look. Maria tangles IX.  (13:51)

Day 10 – Monday, May 19

Bijouism #33 – Silence. Rick tangles Nipa. (6:47)

Day 11 – Tuesday, May 20

Bijouism #36 – Patience. Rick tangles Cubine. (8:47)

Day 12 – Wednesday, May 21

Bijouism #40 – Be brave, be true. Maria tangles Keeko (with a Pokeleaf tendril) (9:58)

Day 13 – Thursday, May 22

Bijouism #43 – Add love. Maria tangles Idoz. (12:04)

Day 14 – Friday, May 23

Bijouism #45 – Nurture. Molly tangles Fife. (10:16)

Day 15 – Saturday, May 24

Bijouism #48 – Explore. Martha tangles Purk. (10:28)

Day 16 – Sunday, May 25

Bijouism #38 – Change and grow. Molly tangles ‘Nzeppel. (9:59)

Day 17 – Monday, May 26

Bijouism #30 – Stretch. Martha tangles Ravel. (8:52)

Day 18 – Tuesday, May 27

Bijouism #42 – Look up. Julie tangles Tripoli. (8:25)

Day 19 – Wednesday, May 28

Bijouism #46 – Find balance. Rick tangles Crazy Cadent. (12:02)

Day 20 – Thursday, May 29

Bijouism #44 – Dream. Julie tangles Arukas. (11:18)

Day 21 – Friday, May 30

Bijouism #39 – Marvel. Molly tangles Pokeroot. (8:53)

Wrap Up – Saturday, May 31

“Molly shows how you can savor your art and the new Bijouisms from this year’s 21-day journey.” (1:12)

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