If you are going home to be with family for the holidays, please make time for yourself too. Time to journal, to sketch something, even just to move some paint across a page without needing for to to be about making something. ⁣ ⁣ Because those acts are the true going home.....to yourself.

...but I hadn’t understood the mechanism of it, the why or the how art therapy works and can heal past trauma.  Sarah explains what's actually going on with the left brain and the right brain in trauma experiences, and how creating art can support us to access, reconcile and ultimately resolve past traumas in ways that are sometimes limited by talk therapy alone. 

The creativity inside us is excitedly waiting for us to jump on board so she can take us on the incredible adventure of THIS ONE WILD LIFE. When we recognize that it was never our job to lead the adventure, when we show up with our hearts & minds peacefully partnered, poised & ready to respond with creativity for all that is to come, then the magic happens.

n this episode she shares the incredible story of the painting that came to her in a life-changing dream, after the passing of her beloved mother in law. How that painting helped her through her grieving process and would go on to lead her on a completely unexpected journey leaving a busy, hectic career in Corporate America behind to become a full-time artist with a thriving career. 

This quest for perfection is an endless, frustrating, unattainable loop - we can not perfectly create the things we see in our minds anymore than we can exactly imagine the hotel room that awaits us on a long anticipated vacation.The magic resides in letting go and allowing what IS in front of us to delight us in the way only IT can.