From Pain to Purpose
While I briefly experienced a visionary state at the age of 30, my thirties were focused on working through my shadow self through expressive art and writing. After my crisis-induced spiritual awakening, my human default of depression felt unbearable. I created many journal pages during that time, visually drawing myself clawing my way up out of a dark hole.
After ten years of expressive shadow work, I started to share my creative experiences of emotional healing with others. In my 40s, I went back to school. I spent my nights and weekends earning my designation in counselling psychology while working full-time in Canada’s largest government-funded art therapy studio for Canadian veterans.
Working in the art studio with a vibrant team of artists and art therapists for ten years was an inspiring process of creative cross-pollination. It took me far beyond my scope of practice to see how much different ways of art-making can help people feel calmer, more precise, more original and alive. Over the past 20 years, through my community art workshops, online teachings, art studio, and non-profit work, I have facilitated expressive art and writing processes for individuals ranging in age from 2 to 100.
The Healing Power of Spontaneous Creativity
Spontaneous art and writing practices have certainly enlightened my life. Creating spontaneously provides a "symbolic emotional release." As a spontaneous painting teacher, Susan Bello explains, "Through the living symbol, the Unconscious gradually reveals messages from a higher consciousness. Symbols are representations of our greatest selves in seed form. They hold our potential."
I am now a full-time psychotherapist and online educator supporting women to heal the core wounds that cause depression through self-expression. I am unabashed in my enthusiasm for the power of spontaneous self-expression to heal emotional pain, illuminate mental darkness, reveal higher possibilities, and bring out the originality of what we are.
When we are honest and deeply accountable, we can love what feels dark and denied inside. When we express and honour the hard stuff, we clear and transform. Spontaneous creative expression takes us far beyond the heavy psychological patterning we can feel ourselves stuck in, opening us up to the soul's originality buried beneath our human heartbreaks, losses, and traumas.
Within six months
I changed my entire life...
MYSTICAL CREATIVITY: For six months, I awoke to the spiritual reality of my life and experienced only Love, no shame, guilt, sadness, anger or fear. I had prophetic dreams, left my marriage, and fell in love with my soul mate. Together with my daughter, we left the big city to start a mystical creative life in the mountains of Canada.
DEPTH CREATIVITY: Settling down into regular family life my unhealed core wound pain returned full force and an unsettling depression set in. I felt creatively blocked, flat, sad and empty. I felt called to clear out the core wounding blocking access to my soul's originality through expressive art and writing.
MY MISSION
is to offer you deeply creative ways to clear the ego conditioning that blocks your originality.
INTUITIVE CREATIVITY: The spontaneity of intuitive art and writing bypasses the ego defense system that looks outside of itself for love, approval, security and survival. Intuitive creativity arises after you clear a layer of wounding from your shadow. If you are an outer-directed person and want to creatively look within, you will probably love what I offer. With spontaneity, you can clear out your creative blocks, and intuitively access the what is original in you.
DEPTH CREATIVITY: I have developed hundreds of expressive art and writing directive that invite a wondrous way through your lowest emotions in ways that bypass defensive ego thinking. Expressive art is not about creating a beautiful end product, it is about seeing what is inside of you so that you can heal your core wounding and live your life from a higher level of freedom, originality and creativity.
FREE DEPTH CREATIVITY COURSE
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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!
DEPTH CREATIVITY can help you SEE AND HEAL YOUR NEGLECTED PARTS OF SELF
including inner child and teen parts of self as well as the core wounds that block access to your original soul nature.
How I Can Support You:
INNER CHILD
THERAPY
SELF-MIRROR
WITH COLLAGE
DAILY INTUITIVE
CREATIVITY
DEEP SHADOW
EXPLORATION
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