Finding Your Creative Strength as a Woman
"The Creator created us as creators. Most people are afraid of their creativity, because it is a profound opening of the heart and mind. We do not do creativity. It does us. It is a deep surrender that adds art, healing, beauty, and bonding to the world. Creativity is one of life's gifts that makes us profusely happy." - Chuck Spezzano - Psychologist
Expressive art is spontaneous art and it employs the principle of syncronicity in that it tells you exactly what you need to know for your growth in this moment. Creation without pre-planning often clears out unconscious psychological patterns we are unaware of. Spontaneous imagery is often "wider" than words and it can invite our deeper, more feminine, intuitive wisdom to pour forth into our practical, everyday world.
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Who Are You As A Woman?
"There is a difference between who we've always thought we had to be and that which is within that we might never allow to emerge."
Often our lives are filled with practical details and concerns and we rarely take the time to listen within. Spontaneous art-making is a way to love the creative side of yourself that you may be neglecting in your life.
We are encultured to be practical, "masculine", linear, and logical in our daily doings. My mentor and friend Naomi Rose puts it this way, "Our souls must have room and place to tell us what is happening in the rich and secret world within. Yet that part of our lives that depends on financial focus for income, material well-being and even human relatedness frequently seems to take up all the room there is, elevating the "outside" life at the expense of the "inside" life."
We are often "asleep" to our creative, authentic selves and are only aware of our daily, more socially functional, practical personality. And yet our practical lives are enriched enormously when we set aside time each day to tend to our creative spirits. When we attend to our unexpressed creativity our daily lives become richer with insights and direction. Our dreams become wider and our purposes in life become clearer.
The aim of the sevices on this site are to help you express and discover the multidimensional parts of you that you do not pay attention to in the midst of your busy life. When you honor and accept your full scope of being, your rich and unique creativity, you become more alive and embodied as a woman in the idst of your practical world. Sometimes this is not easy for in becoming more fully alive you need to move through what you avoid and repress and turn it into wisdom instead of weakness. But when you do your inner creative work you become more "here" in your distinct authenticity in this world.
I have developed incisive, and effective creative healing programs for practical women who are often too busy to look within. The courses and coaching services I offer can take as little as 10 minutes a day of deepened self-reflection to help you build your strength as a woman and your intutitive insight. These services are geared towards women who long to know themselves on a deeper level and long to uncover there "distinctiveness".
A highly effective course if offer is designed to encourage your creative confidence is an easy, suprising and fun way into your inner world with Spontaneous Collage. Spontaneous art requires no artistic talent and is an immediate and surprising way to see what is going on inside of you.
Support for Your Creative Journey
If you would like personal support from me for your creative journey I have three ways that you can connect personally with me:
1.) E-mail Coaching involves sending me one spontaneous collage per week by e-mail. You will receive questions, insights and feedback by e-mail to help you understand the various aspects of your psyche and understand what part of you are helping you and what parts of you are holding you back from success and happiness.
2.) Creativity and Life Purpose Coaching is designed you help you understand what your deeper purposes are and to support you to moving into your greatness, your creative strength and your spiritual largess as woman. You will recieve weekly phone support, will set up a daily creative practice and will recieve support to move toward your goals on a daily basis.
3,) Spiritual Counselling involves weekly one hour phone sessions to deeply explore what is holding you back from living in your truth and integrity. In your sessions you will explore the troubled and unnaccepted parts of your psyche to better understand what parts of your mind are holding you back from living the innate unique patterning of your soul.
Self-Led Support
If you are outside of the Vancouver Canada area I offer an array of acclaimed e-courses as well coaching programs. Collage for Self-Discovery offers a six week collage journalling program, an online community and support and feedback for your work.
If you have very little time to try a creativity practice try meditating on one small 10 minute collage for 30 days with The Ten Minute Collage E-Course.
If you would like to receive 365 days of A Course in Miracles for Creative Women you will recieve daily insight for one year on living into the creative, spiritual life.
Free Resources
I offer a number of free resources on this site:
Free Creative Intuition E-Course
30 Day Drawing Challenges - to motivate you to try the benefits of a daily creative practice and to win a free e-course.
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