Pouting, Whining and Getting Aligned With My Artists Soul

Whenever I launch a new round of my Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Training Program it takes me back through my journey of being an intuitive painting facilitator that began almost 30 years ago. And one thing that stands out for me was the challenge of filling my classes. I had been working primarily as a psychotherapist when I started my Creative Juices Arts business, and I was supporting myself nicely with that work. But intuitive painting … even though it meant I was still working in the realm of psychological and emotional healing… was something that not a whole lot of folks knew about or understood. When people thought about using art as a healing path they either approached it from the technical/product oriented perspective… ( I’ll learn to make “good” art to help me relax and feel better about myself) or they saw it from the art therapy vantage point where art making is a way to solve your problems and analyze your psyche so that you can understand yourself and your psychological issues better. But intuitive painting is really neither of those things. It’s got a kind of anti-product orientation… what the painting looks like to you […]