Dearest members, so many are struggling with exhaustion and burn out. Go on a little imagination vacation with me to have a reset. 🤍🕯️

Sometimes a pen, a scrap of paper, and 5 minutes of scribbling is enough to create a small exhale; and those exhale moments add up. 🖌️ We tend to underestimate the power of small, imperfect acts. A scribble. A line that goes nowhere. A page with no plan. But from a nervous system perspective, these tiny creative gestures matter more than we’ve been taught to believe. When stress is high, personally or collectively, the brain looks for safety. Not productivity. Not perfection. Safety. Scribbling, doodling, and simple mark-making send a quiet signal to the body that it’s allowed to soften. That there’s room to feel without needing to fix anything. 😃 For me, it feels like a happy bubble around me when I do art. In that sense, art isn’t an escape from reality. It’s a healthy rebellion against hardening the heart. You don’t need talent. You don’t need supplies. You don’t even need time. Scribble out your emotions. Let the pressure express your feelings. Switch hands. Open and close your eyes. Come home to your body. 🫟 Be messy. Let it not make sense. Leave it unfinished or turn it into something. Recycle it. It doesn't matter. Be in the moment and feeeeeeel. 🌬️ I'm not saying scribbling is a replacement for therapy by any means. It is more like a preventative multivitamin for the heart, so things don't build up. In this moment in the world, we most take care of ourselves. However you find your glimmers, you moment of calm, I salute you. We have such an incredible community of self healers and enduring badasses who choose to stay soft. What works for you? Tell me...

For creative play over the weekend. Especially effective if you are having anxiety symptoms or are worrying. Art journaling helps us reduce mental tension and process our life experiences in a safe, comfortable way. It can help us reduce anxiety and self doubt because of the healing effect on the amygdala, which regulates emotions and creative thinking. Use these prompts one at a time or all together to explore the depth of these concepts. Use color, shape, line, magazine cutouts, words, phrases - anything goes! Art journaling can be as playful or as serious as you'd like it to be. All you need is paper and simple supplies. Take a load off and lighten your heart. Unwind at the end the week or when you need some lighthearted self care. My heart's work is guiding people in personal liberation through tools of the mind and imagination. 🫟

Affirmations for a slow, gentle start to the new year. Honoring the natural rhythms of the body, our intuition and softness.

Some of my most creatively inspired ideas come from getting past letting my mind think all it's thoughts and have all its worries. This is not possible in each 24 hour period, but when I am able to get past all the thinking, even past being the inspiration phase, my thinking is actually quite hilarious! I don't consider myself a funny person, I'm definitely silly at times, but there is a part of me that's voice comes out rather rarely that I long to hear amidst the noise of the world. 💪🏼 Building the muscles of relaxation is supremely valuable to so many aspects of our wellbeing, and that is a huge reason behind why I do what I do. Art is medicine. The breath is medicine. The unstuck mind is medicine. We’ve been taught that growth comes from effort, pressure, and pushing through. My body could go along with this crap in my twenties, but today? LOL! Rest is not quitting. Rest is how the body remembers calm. Rest is where we stop performing. 👑 When we practice rest, the mind softens. The crown opens. Ideas arrive without force. Gentleness becomes a soft place to lay the pressure down instead of piling more on the wound. Do you have a practice around Intention rest? 🛁 Mine tend to include long baths, no - expectation spontaneous watercolor paintings, laying on the balcony with my plants, meditating and stretching. Tell me about yours...