Whenever I go outside, I invite myself to find my feet on the earth and allow my senses to wander and play. I wait to see what catches my heart and I reach for it. The goal is to connect. To connect differently from how I connect within the confines of walls or the context …
Two tiny drops of water that landed on my desk when I was filling a little mason jar is where today’s art exploration of the mother wound began in a therapy session with a client today. I could have ignored these two tiny drops. I could have just wiped them away. But instead, I noticed. …
Today, in session with my clients, I invited them to work small. There’s a wisdom in that. A part of it is that when we work big on a large piece of paper or canvas we can overwhelm ourselves with too much blank space to fill and too many options to choose from. Working small …
This little collage may just be my favourite.There is something so captivating about losing myself in my messy bins of overflowing collage materials. This little piece is made up of two different pieces of my own art, a greeting card and words from a magazine. Oh, and a tiny piece of embroidery thread. So simple, …
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I find so much peace and joy in the process of collage. There’s something about it that almost always brings with it an emotional release. I think there is something so healing about creating without any expectations or intentions and collage often lends itself to that by its very nature. It is spontaneous and intuitive. …
It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense or Sound Good This evening’s unwinding came in the form of free flow of consciousness journaling. One of the things that I’ve learned is that I journal from a deeper place when I journal in unexpected ways. So, tonight, I took an empty roll of aluminum foil, used it …