Creative Juices Arts Blog

Welcome to my blog page! I love writing about the healing power of the creative process. Here you will find a collection of all of my writing from all the way back to 2005! Enjoy!

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Chris Zydel

Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Ellen Morrison

Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Ellen Morrison

Art making and creativity have always been a part of my life and I give credit to an upbringing amongst artists and activists who encouraged me and rooted a belief and respect of its vital influence on both the individual and the collective.  Alongside my career as a clinical social worker, facilitator and mediator, I am a community artist and deeply value the expressive arts creative process in helping me take risks, pushing the boundaries of what I think is possible. 

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Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Damini Celebre

Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Damini Celebre

Why I LOVED the Wild Heart Teachers Training. Chris is amazing! She shares generously her abundant wealth of experience, knowledge and guidance. Chris has a big givin’ heart. She held my hand and made me laugh, when I was worried that I would fail… The women that were part of my teachers training I will always be call my sisters. Chris held each us in Big Mama Love, as we navigated the terrain of our hearts and intuitive painting.

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The Creative Invitation

The Creative Invitation

                 Life is an ongoing invitation to be fully alive. It’s simply saying YES. It’s being willing to follow that aliveness and to allow that aliveness its full and unbridled expression. How much money you do or don’t make, what you achieve or accomplish, if...

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Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Julee Winterbourne

Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Julee Winterbourne

I weave together the magic of women’s circles with intuitive painting. We gather in circle, drop into meditation, use journal prompts to get really connected to our inner world, a bit of discussion to bring in sisterhood and then we get quiet and we move to the easels. We paint and from then it’s all process, no product. It’s all expression and no judgement.

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Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Deborah Young

Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Deborah Young

This painting process helps me follow my emotions (energy in motion) by painting stories of my childhood and adulthood which has simply transformed my life!… I’ve proven that I’m a strong survivor who believes that tragedy in life doesn’t define me. It has empowered me to find my authentic voice, encouraging me to speak my truth!

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What Exactly IS Intuitive Painting?

What Exactly IS Intuitive Painting?

What exactly is the Wild Heart Expressive Arts intuitive painting process? And how is it different from other ways of making of art? I get asked this question a lot because there’s some honest confusion about what it even means to paint intuitively. And also a need...

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Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Kelsey Gustafson

Wild Heart Teacher Spotlight: Kelsey Gustafson

When I learned how to paint for the process not the product, my entire life began to become art. I became less afraid and more curious. I could dance with my shadow and question my own taboos. I began to see that so much of what limits me is cultural programming. I began to see that I have more agency and power than I ever realized. Painting from your soul is a liberatory and evolutionary process.

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