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!
I recently spent a week feeling pretty bad. I was extremely depressed. And had zero energy. In trying to make sense about where this onslaught of misery was coming from, there were a number of things I could point to. It’s been a crazy intense year. Lots of...
My dear friend Andrea Schroeder of Creative Dream Incubator fame and I are offering an online workshop next Tuesday, December 4th entitled Gifts Of The Shadow. Wild Creative Momentum. And since she is HERE with me at my studio this week ( YAY) we decided to make a...
As promised from my last post I wanted to explore the TYPES of things that we put in our shadow box. The truth of it is that it can be ANYTHING. But one thing that all residents of the box have in common is that they are a result of feeling shamed. Which is how they...
As we move even further into the deep dark of the year ( at least in the Northern Hemisphere) we need a sizzling source of blazing light. And spirited Sagittarius is here to lead the way. Sagittarius is the sign of the freedom loving adventuress. She is infused...
I’ve devoted my life ... both personally and professionally... to spiritual, psychological and creative healing. And I’ve learned a thing or two over many long years about what it means to heal and what it TAKES to heal. What I mean by healing is engaging in the...
Among the many professional hats that I wear... Wild Heart Queen, Wild Heart Painting Facilitator, Mentor, Creativity Soul Guide, Writer, Artist, Teacher, Creative Entrepreneur... I am also an Evolutionary Astrologer. And one of the aspects of my work that brings me...
Medicine. Whenever I think of that word, my first association is with something that tastes incredibly nasty, like castor oil ( yes, I’m old enough to remember castor oil) or the cringe in my mouth when I accidentally bite down on an antibiotic pill. I have...
I know it’s been a rough couple of weeks for so many of us on an emotional level. So I just wanted to offer you a bit of handholding, a lot of commiseration and some virtual pie. It's really OK to simply let something shitty be shitty. Crappy things don't...
Earlier this week I sat in circle with 5 other women at my Creative Juices Arts studio. And everyone spoke to the feelings of rage that were being unearthed because of Christine Blasey Fords testimony about her sexual assault at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh. One...
Among the many professional hats that I wear... Wild Heart Queen, Wild Heart Painting Facilitator, Mentor, Creativity Soul Guide, Writer, Artist, Teacher, Creative Entrepreneur... I am also an Evolutionary Astrologer. And one of the aspects of my work that...
It takes a lot of bravery to explore our inner underworld. Those places inside our souls and psyches that harbor our shame and our pain and our most difficult emotions. It’s scary down there in those dark recesses of what we have tried for so long to keep hidden. Even...
Once you are truly committed to a path of radical transformation, you are in for life. You can SAY fuck it all you want when you hit the hard spots... and there WILL be hard spots. Guaranteed. In fact it can feel really good to say fuck it once in...
It doesn't matter if you made some choices that did not turn out the way you expected them too. If you ended up feeling disappointed. Or like you failed. It doesn't matter if you promised yourself that you would stop doing something or start. And then you didn't. Or...
The Sun recently went into the sign of Virgo... one of my favorite signs since I AM a Virgo. And right now I think we need ALL the Virgo energy we can get. It’s a sign that is often misunderstood. So I want to take a few moments to talk about the deeper more esoteric...
I’ve got transformation on the brain since I just got back from week two of my AMAZING teacher training program with some of the most incredibly bad ass, creatively alive women on the planet. My teacher training is divided up into four in-person retreats. And every...
I was recently having a conversation with one of my beloved students when she stopped me in my tracks with a lovely acknowledgement. She said to me: “You know the reason that I chose you for my teacher is that you REALLY mean it when you say that you support me 100%...
It has always seemed so unfair that opening to my creative muse immediately whips my judging mind into a frenzy of activity. For a long while it was a puzzle to me. It didn’t make any sense as to why I would be so crippled by fear and doubt whenever I was inspired to...
When a true spiritual breakthrough is imminent, our soul will let us know that it is time through an experience of suffering. We will find ourselves in a place of distress that often has no discernible source. We just know that we’re miserable, hurting and...
Recently, in one of my sacred creativity circles, a women shared about how flabbergasted she was when she heard me nonchalantly talk about my superpowers without apology, justification or disclaimer and without it being a big deal. Like it was the most natural...
Perfectionism lives in the mind. The place of creative refuge is always in our body. When perfectionism comes on the scene frustration is not far behind. If you find yourself spinning out into mental anxiety around creating the RIGHT way, simply breathe your...
One of the biggest lies around the creative process is that we have to be in a magical state of inspiration in order to create. This fantasy state is some combination of bright eyed and bushy tailed excitement, uber confidence and feeling an unbroken connection...
I recently returned from an incredibly transformative week with my newest group of teacher training students. And was once again struck by the power of this work to make significant changes in people's lives. Through this Wild Heart Expressive Arts Process...
I just returned from spending a mind bending and heart opening week facilitating the Wild Heart Expressive Arts Intuitive Painting Process with a bunch of amazing creative folks in a GORGEOUS natural environment. And I am reminded once again about the...
I just came back from a ten day journey to my beloved Southwest, where I got replenished and re nourished from spending time BATHING in the energy of that ancient red rock universe. One of the things that feeds me so deeply in that landscape is the incredibly...
I am a person who has spent her life trying to heal the hurting places in women. Starting with myself. I want women to feel powerful. To have agency in their lives.To be full of their own light and shining goodness. To bring that goodness out in the world where it can...
I have a confession to make. In writing this blog I talk a lot about the creative process which makes it sound like it’s something that’s kind of abstract. Or at least part of the workings of my own mind. Which isn’t exactly the truth. I’ve been avoiding telling the...
When I told my husband that I had decided to write an article about the positive aspects of women and aging he said, only half jokingly: “That’s going to be a very short post.” He made that statement with love, based on witnessing me struggling with a whole multitude...
