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Join me in my explorations and musings of how spirituality can be creative fuel for visual art as well as allowing you to live a more authentic life!

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Finding "the place of your resurrection"

Unpack the Celtic phrase “Let your feet follow your heart to the place of your resurrection.” What does all that mean? How can you follow your heart? How can you listen to the voice of your soul? What is specials about the place of your resurrection? And how can you practice resurrection long after Easter Sunday has come and gone.

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Inhaling Spirit, Exhaling Art

Are you any good at trusting your gut?

Do you let your intuition be your guide?

I am slowly learning to listen to that still, small voice inside. I’ve often wondered why it can’t be louder so we never miss it? Well, that finally happened. I finally heard my holy howl!

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Are you showing up for YOU?

Your art practice needs you to practice showing up!
It's important to show up for your art practice. And for your soul. Keeping promises to yourself is a way to show yourself some loving and grow in self trust.

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Recapturing Wonder and Awe

Why I started talking to rocks after my trip to Ireland. God’s presence is everywhere all at once. This is a critical and urgent realization for us right now because it requires us to acknowledge the interconnectedness of all creation, all the people and all the rocks.

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Hello! My name is...

#Goals:

To empower souls to turn toward that which is deepest within us, rather than waiting for permission and approval from external sources, and

To inspire budding creatives to dive in and find out how good it feels to play with art materials and colors that light us up! You don’t need anyone’s permission to do that either!

I believe that through creative expression, we can find our own voice and learn to express it in a joyful and soul-nourishing way.

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Reimagining Holy Week

After rejecting atonement substitutionary theory to explain the death of Jesus, do you need to reimagine Holy Week? Perhaps a better way is to see Jesus as an example of transformation and explore what it is we need to allow to die so that we can resurrect as our truest loving self.

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Returning to the work

My second Crone portrait, Vikki, wearing a gold bejeweled headscarf. I’ve returned after a long break to face and work through the challenges of the messy teenage stage of this painting.

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