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Expressive Art and Writing Courses

Are you a creative woman who is feeling blocked, unoriginal, or distracted away from uncomfortable emotions that are needing to be truthfully expressed?

Are your repressed emotions translating into depression, illness, relational or psychological discord, or just a feeling of being comfortably safe, acceptable and bored?

Do you sense that you might have authentic aspects of yourself that never got a chance to develop in your family, school, cultural or religious environments because they were not seen or accepted?

Do you ache to express your truth as a joyful free spirit, but sometimes feel compelled to please and appease others at the expense of your honest self-expression? Do you feel like you can only express your true self when you are alone?

Do you long to have a corner of freedom in your life, such as in a private journal, where you can practice boldly expressing your truth through expressive drawing, painting, collage and writing? 

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Explore three simple but deep intuitive art and writing exercises to help you heal your shadow, amplify your intuition, and access inspiration!

Hello! I'm Shelley

Depth-Oriented Psychotherapist and Expressive Arts Educator 

As human beings, we have a primary core conflict between attachment and authenticity. As children, our priority was to remain attached to our caregivers, which means most of us have authentic aspects of ourselves in our shadow that have never been known or expressed. This translates into feeling like something is missing inside, yet it is still there, repressed and depressed. And, too often, we don’t go through the murky unknown to the clarity and joy on the other side. 

I support women who feel unseen and unexpressed in some essential aspects of themselves, likely due to inaccurate mirroring and emotional misattunement in childhood. I have foundsilent, unseen, and unknown aspects within myself, and I have been able to mirror these lost aspects through expressive art and writing. This is why I create in-depth, expressive art and writing courses to help you rediscover your Original Self.

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What is a Core Wound?

We all have one - usually more than one. Your core wound is your hidden negative identity from childhood, and it drives your inner critic to be mean and shaming. Your unhealed core wounds will either drop you into a murky depression where it feels hard to express how you feel and what you need. Or, core wounds can instigate an anxiety-driven "perfection plan" for happiness that you hope will save you from having to face your deepest fears about yourself.

Negative core wound identities sound like this: I am not good enough. I am not important. I am flawed. I am not worthy. I am not valued. I don’t deserve love. I am not acceptable the way I am. I am too different. I don’t belong. I am not worthy of love. I am a burden. I am weird. I am a loser. I am not wanted. I am inadequate. I am powerless. I am unlovable. I am alone.

Core wounds block your soul's deepest longing: Like all people, you have a unique longing in your heart for something higher and more fulfilling. This differs from ego fantasies seeking to compensate for core wound pain. You might have a genuine soul longing to have a beautiful love relationship or to be financially free, for example. You might ache to express who you truly are in the world, or perhaps you want to find your core strength and accomplish something magnificent. These deep soul longings are blocked by unhealed core wound pain.

Core wounds express the places inside you most separated from Unconditional Love. Typically, your core wounds lie hidden in the subconscious and deeper unconscious mind, waiting for you to acknowledge and tend to them with love and care. But first, you must find what is missing so that you can give yourself what you need in order to grow.

It is common to ignore core wounds. When core wounds remain deeply unconscious, you may achieve success in life in an anxiety-driven way that demands perfection. Conversely, when core wounds come closer to the surface, you might grapple with a depression that blocks intuition and creativity.

Your core wounds are lies but they feel true. We carry core wound lies from our familial and societal conditioning within our emotional body. When you look at the world through the lens of your unhealed core wounds, you will see a world that mirrors your shortcomings and insecurities. This core wound feedback loop blocks the intuition you need to actualize your soul's deepest longings.

What is a Core Wound?

We all have one - usually more than one. Your core wound is your hidden negative identity from childhood and it drives your inner critic to be mean to you. Your unhealed core wounds will either drop you into a murky depression when it feels hard to express how you feel and what you need. Or, core wounds can instigate an anxiety-driven "perfection plan" for happiness that you hope will save you from having to feel your deepest pain.

Negative core wound identities sound like this: I am not good enough. I am not important. I am flawed. I am not worthy. I am not valued. I don’t deserve love. I am not acceptable the way I am. I am too different. I don’t belong. I am not worthy of love. I am a burden. I am weird. I am a loser. I am not wanted. I am inadequate. I am powerless. I am unlovable. I am alone.

Core wounds block your soul's deepest longing: Like all people, you have a unique longing in your heart for something higher and more fulfilling. This differs from ego fantasies seeking to compensate for core wound pain. You might have a genuine soul longing to have a beautiful love relationship or to be financially free, for example. You might ache to express who you truly are in the world, or perhaps you want to find your core strength and accomplish something magnificent. These deep soul longings are blocked by unhealed core wound pain.

Core wounds express the places inside you most separated from Unconditional Love. Typically, your core wounds lie hidden in the subconscious and deeper unconscious mind, waiting for you to acknowledge and tend to them with love and care. But first, you have to find so that you can give yourself what you most need in order to grow.

Your core wounds are lies but they feel true. We carry core wound lies from our familial and societal conditioning within our emotional body. When you look at the world through the lens of your unhealed core wounds, you will see a world that mirrors your shortcomings and insecurities. This core wound feedback loop blocks the intuition you need to actualize your soul's deepest longings.

It is common to ignore core wounds. When core wounds remain deeply unconscious, you may achieve success in life in an anxiety-driven way that demands perfection. Conversely, when core wounds come closer to the surface, you might grapple with a depression that blocks intuition and creativity.

THE PATHWAY

to healing your core wounds

If you are new to my work, I recommend the following courses.

Inner Child Therapy Worksheets

Even if you had a good childhood, your parents probably only saw and nurtured a few aspects of your original, innocent being. These gaps in nurturing, recognition, and attention create the sense of not fully knowing who you are.

It is up to you as an adult to self-parent your original child self daily in a warm, inclusive, consistent, nurturing way so that you can discover and recover all the essential aspects of your authentic self.

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100 Days of Art Journal Therapy

Is it possible to live your life from inspiration instead of depression? Absolutely! It just takes practice. This in-depth daily e-course will support you to emotionally heal through daily spontaneous imagery paired with in-depth writing prompts.

To heal the deepest core wounds that cause depression you will need to gain access to the inspiring and encouraging imagery that arises from your creative unconscious mind.

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Collage For Self-Discovery

Like many empathic women, you may not yet have developed a strong sense of self. So, if you long to find a profound way to self-mirror, self-recognize, and self-affirm your inner truth, this is the course for you!

In this video course, I offer you a process of spontaneous collage as a way to self-mirror your repressed emotions, desires and dreams through pictures so that you can heal depression and discover who you truly are.

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THE PATHWAY

to healing core wounds

If you are new to my work, I recommend the following courses.

Inner Child Therapy Worksheets

Even if you had a good childhood, your parents probably only saw and nurtured a few aspects of your original, innocent being. These gaps in nurturing, recognition, and attention create the sense of not fully knowing who you are.

It is up to you as an adult to self-parent your original child self daily in a warm, inclusive, consistent, nurturing way so that you can discover and recover all the essential aspects of your authentic self.

JOIN ME
100 Days of Art Journal Therapy

Is it possible to live your life from inspiration instead of depression? Absolutely! It just takes practice. This in-depth daily e-course will support you to emotionally heal through daily spontaneous imagery paired with in-depth writing prompts.

To heal the deepest core wounds that cause depression you will need to gain access to the inspiring and encouraging imagery that arises from your creative unconscious mind.

JOIN ME
Collage For Self-Discovery

Like many empathic women, you may not yet have developed a strong sense of self. So, if you long to find a profound way to self-mirror, self-recognize, and self-affirm your inner truth, this is the course for you!

In this video course, I offer you a process of spontaneous collage as a way to self-mirror your repressed emotions, desires and dreams through pictures so that you can heal depression and discover who you truly are.

JOIN ME

THE ART OF HEALING DEPRESSION

A YEAR OF EXPRESSIVE ART AND WRITING

This emotionally explorative, depth-oriented, expressive arts course provides a year-long transformation path from emotional pain to joyful creative freedom.

Enjoy insightful daily self-expression prompts, weekly video teaching and monthly creative deepening sessions to help you access your unconscious mind, love the neglected parts of yourself, and heal the entrenched core wounds that cause depression.

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Inner Child Therapy Worksheets

Thank you Shelley for your insight. Without a doubt, your thoughtfulness when preparing the program, your calm, nurturing manner, and the easy pace of the lessons made it easy for me to work through them at my pace. I will never forget what I've learned. I've already recommended this course to others. 

- Course Participant

100 Days of Art Journal Therapy

Your course, Shelley, is among the best of 'journeys' I've gone on this life. It is challenging, revealing, refreshing, and inspiring.

Thank you for all you've gone through yourself to have evolved and become so experienced that you can offer growth-services to others.

- Course Participant

 

 

Collage For Self-Discovery

I enjoyed the entire course, I looked forward to the video each week. The content is excellent, well presented and visually pleasing and your presence is very reassuring. Thank you for this excellent course which brought me beautiful discoveries and made such a difference in my life!!!!! 

- Course Participant

 
 

Heal Your Core Wound Guidebook

Each one of us has such devastating negative beliefs about ourselves that we cannot bear to acknowledge them. Find your primary core childhood wound and learn how to heal it.