If you are struggling with depression, you are likely not connecting to your strength and confidence. You likely have lost connection to yourself, and to your own way of knowing. This lack of confidence suggests that you have lost your connection to your soul center. In your depression healing process, you can begin each creative practice session by developing a felt-sense of your true soul center. Once you can strongly sense your soul center, you can also start to sense into your ego structure. You can watch how your socialized ego structure is ..read more

“We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.” ~ Serina Hartwell I loved creating my Inner Child Therapy Worksheets and I invite you to enjoy the art journal exploration excerpted from the worksheets below. Because negative emotions become trapped in the body, you might only able to keep a life-affirming statement running in your mind for a few minutes before you revert back to your habitual negative self-talk. Commonly known as positive affirmations, statements such as, "I love myself," do not often take hold whe ..read more

For as long as I can remember, I have longed to feel joy. In my twenties, I created "joy journals" by cutting and pasting beautiful things that sparked joy for me. Eventually, my life started to shape around my consecration to joy. The old fell away, and the new arrived. Imagine a new emotional reality that you would LOVE to create. Now, imagine NOT being able to create this reality. The negative thoughts and emotions that come up will reveal your limiting beliefs. If you have no negative reactions, you will have no blocks to creating your new reality. Now, imagine your dream of a new reality ..read more

An Intuitive Poetry Journal is Experimental I invite you to begin a very easy spontaneous creative practice and to take a journey deep into your body's spontaneous wisdom. In my one year expressive art and writing course, you will be invited to develop an experimental, intuitive journal, and fill it up with free form words and imagery. In this journal, I will encourage you to meditate upon the poetry of your mysterious inner life. Set aside five minutes each day to quickly pull an image that feels strong for you, and to try your hand at an intuitive poem. This simple daily way of expressing i ..read more

Over the years, my creative practices become simpler and simpler - sometimes to the point of sometimes just picking one image from a magazine a day, and meditating upon what it means to me.  The Simplicity of Gluebooks Have you heard of gluebooks? I have been making gluebooks for over 20 years -  before I knew that they were called gluebooks! Gluebooks are different from collage journals in that they are simply a book that you glue things that you like into. If you would like to cut, collage and glue in a more elaborate way, I have written an article on How to Create an Intuitive C ..read more

Imagine a new reality you would LOVE to create. Now, imagine NOT being able to create this reality. The thoughts and emotions that come up will express your negative core beliefs. If you have no negative reaction to your new vision, you will not have any blocks to creating your new reality. Now, imagine your dream of a new reality coming true - BIG TIME. Then, see what thoughts and emotions come up. If you have no emotional reaction to your new vision, you will not have any blocks to your new desired reality. If you so have emotional reactions to your new reality, invite them to "come up" and ..read more

The Bridging of Two Inner Worlds   To be human is to be vulnerable in your humanness and indestructible in your spirit at the same time. In therapy, you can open up to the loss, limitation and conditioning of your human life. It is from your humanness that you are able to experience the whole range of feelings from the deepest of sorrow to the most incredible joy.   Presence as I offer it as a depth-oriented therapist is loving and non-judgmental, holding open space for your difficult human experiences with unconditional compassion. In unconditioned presence, every inner conflict ..read more

What is Intuitive Painting? Do you know what intuitive painting is? Intuitive painting for the process instead of the end result.  You can choose to suppress your emotions or accept and express them so that they can transform. Emotions hold tremendous energy, and when you paint your emotions out intuitively, you release them from your habitual control. The intuitive painting of your emotions neither burdens other people with the unskillful expression of your emotions, nor does it force your emotions deep down into your body to create dis-ease.  Emotions are never permanent. The ..read more

Week 52: Healing Collage - Festive Quote:  “The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.” ~ Dejan Stojanovic Poem:  Living in the light. Living in the light. A festive promenade! A Year of Healing Collage!  ..read more

Over the years, it has been my honour and pleasure to share my expressive arts practices and principles with so many wonderful people all over the world. And, I have created a webpage of all my interviews and art demos for you HERE!   ..read more