Creative Juices Arts Blog

       Folks who know me in my public persona as a teacher and workshop leader are often VERY surprised to find out that I feel fear. I’ve even had people try to talk me out of it, saying things like “ Who you?? You couldn’t possibly be afraid? How could you...

In just a few days on March 1st, 2014  Spectrum opens the door to a Visual Journaling Experience plus SO MUCH MORE that celebrates Art-Body-Nature. Spectrum is a collective of 30+ holistic-minded artists, healers and visionaries that have come together to offer a 10...

                                              When I told my husband that I had gotten this invitation from my dear friend Susannah Conway to write an...

     I'm in the middle of facilitating one of my week long Painting From The Wild Heart workshops. And I have a developed structure for all my retreats that's based on transmitting the principals of the intuitve painting process to the folks who show up for the...

    Each January I choose a word that embodies an energy that I want to call in, dance with and learn from in the coming year.         Last year it was EASE. Learning about EASE was no picnic and so much more demanding than I could ever have...

      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...

  Learning to listen to our intuition is one thing.       But truly being willing to obey it is another thing altogether. Especially when what our intuition is asking us to do goes counter to what the ego wants or thinks makes sense.       Just recently I was...

  For the past few months I have been on a pretty intensive healing journey, led of course by my greatest teacher, my body.   It's not that I don't take care of myself. I am a Virgo after all and experimenting with different types of herbs and diets and tinctures...

    Many of the outer planets are swimming around in water signs and will be there for quite awhile.   And more are joining the party. So I wanted to share with you all a few astro tips to help you navigate these sometimes murky waters as we continue to...

Transformation is one of those things that sounds really good in theory.   And that's because what people are focused on is what happens on the other side of a change they are envisioning. They get excited thinking about how fabulous it's going to feel to be at...

"If you become someone who is uncomfortable unless she is creating change, restless if things are standing still, and disappointed if you haven't failed recently, you've figured out how to become comfortable with the behaviors most likely to make you safe going...

    Many of the retreats that I facilitate end up having a theme that spontaneously evolves during the course of the workshop.   It's like there is an energy that begins with one person that then catches fire with the the group as a whole. It's really exciting...

  When I get caught up in the swirling momentum of my life Buried by busyness Overcome by obligation Seduced by the mad compulsion to cross off as many things on my to-do list as possible   I find myself forgetting my most essential nature And losing track...

  She is cracking She is bleeding She is birthing  She is grieving   She is howling a holy yes She is growling a sacred no   She is dancing She is laughing She is painting She is drenched in color   She is speaking her truth She is claiming her...

    Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark. ~ Agnes De Mille   As we step...

  You and I are magicians. We are capable of taking a vision, a fantasy or a desire and turning it into something that lives and breathes in reality. One of the things I love about the fact that I am a creative person is being part of that magical process of...

The Guest House    This being human is a guest house.  Every morning a new arrival.    A joy, a depression, a meanness,  some momentary awareness comes  as an unexpected visitor.    Welcome and entertain them all!  Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, ...

  There is no way that you are not part of this world You couldn't disconnect from the matrix of life if you tried You became a captive of love the moment you were born Summoned by a wild divinity  Hell bent on mixing things up   Calling you forth Into a holy...

    What  women need to heal is not for anyone else to tell them what to do or how to feel. They've had enough of those messages all of their lives. And they don't need to follow someone else's wisdom. What they yearn for is a radically empathic container of...

      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...

    I have been on a mission for many years now to help people reach their full creative potential.   Which can mean different things for different folks. But what I am trying to help others avoid is living their lives without being creative if in their hearts it's...

I have two Painting From The Wild Heart retreats coming up at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center in September and they are both close to being full. If you have been longing to come but have been a bit short of the funds to make it happen I have an amazingly generous...