Category: The Healing Arts
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The Healing Arts: Stress Weaving
I haven’t painted since January. For someone who has spent much of her life creating, that feels almost strange to say. Art has always been part of me. I learned to paint when I was young, along with sewing, crocheting, knitting, and weaving. Creating things with my hands was simply part of childhood, and those…
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The Healing Arts: When Creativity Becomes a Lifeline
Some of the most creative people I have ever met… were also carrying some of the heaviest burdens. Not always visibly. Not always in ways the world immediately recognized. But quietly, beneath the surface, many of them were navigating things most people around them never fully understood. Things like chronic illness, rare diseases, disability, grief,…
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The Healing Arts: Painting What I Couldn’t Pray
The Healing Arts Series #1 There are some wounds that do not loosen their grip through conversation. Some grief does not untangle itself through explanation. There are losses that sit too deep for tidy prayers. I did not paint this piece to decorate a wall. I painted it because I could no longer carry the…
