Spring is here!!! If you're at all like me the inner juices are starting to rise and begin the movement of energy out into the world again. Winter has been a time for tending the inner flame and allowing the process of divine alchemy to realign us for the creative expressions of our Souls. Spring calls us forth now into the world to express our heart's yearnings with as much authenticity and vibrancy as the crocuses and daffodils that push their green shoots up toward the warmth and light of the Sun. What is stirring within you that is ready to share with the world? My own creative expressions are reflecting this new growth in my newest painting "Waking Heart", which is available for purchase in fine art prints and canvases. Click on the image to be taken to their website

New Offerings at Blue Earth Awakening
So Spirit has been inspiring me to allow my Path to shift and alter course a bit. It is also time for my artistic/creative path to join with my healing/therapeutic path in a way that reflects a more complete expression of my true nature. And so I am introducing this new process called "Creative Awakening Sessions". This work utilizes drawing, dialogue, spiritual inquiry and body-based trauma processing techniques to discover and awaken your divine creative gifts. I invite you to join me in watering that creative garden of dormant seeds you have had buried within you that are just waiting to see the Light of day! I look forward to sharing this joyful exploration with you.

I have been an artist in many forms for the last 4 decades. Yet it took me many years to discover how much I had been taught to repress my creative urges when I was very young and therefore to divert my path from this Calling many times and in many ways. For the last decade I have allowed this creative Divine impulse to open within me and to share it with the world from an entirely new level. And I have discovered that every time I allow myself to explore a deeper layer of this inner creativity, it teaches me more and more about who I AM and how my life longs to express itself in the world.

So now I am discovering that by combining the rich and beneficial processes I have learned through Somatic and Trauma Therapy practices, with the simple yet profound process of writing and drawing from the Soul, we begin to uncover the inherent creativity in each of us. This is not about being an artist. This is about realizing that we all have natural areas of interest, joy and ability that we came into this life with. Often times we have been highly influenced by family, culture, religion and other forms of external authority to believe that we need to follow a particular path in order to be successful or loved in life. Too often this prescribed path is not really what our heart and soul would have chosen.

I have discovered that we store many of the experiences of our lives, both what we would label positive and negative in our bodies. By learning to listen deeply to our felt sense and to allow us to draw and write what we see and hear in an uncensored way, we begin to remember just what it is that really makes us tick. Drawing allows us to get underneath the analytical mind and access preverbal experience and intuitive insights that words may not access. Then by allowing the image to speak through us we gain greater understanding into the inner guidance that has been here all along.

So I invite you to join me in this profound and inspiring way of exploring your Soul's terrain. You don't have to be an artist to use color, shape, texture and words to explore who you really are. You only need to have an open mind, a willing heart and a curious interest in discovering the Calling of your Soul.

What will you receive from your Creative Awakening Session?

1. You will learn to use the power of drawing simple images that access the inner unconscious material that is the source of your wounding and dialogue with it to discover hidden beliefs about yourself that talking often cannot reach.
2. You will learn to utilize the body and your somatic awareness as a resource for tracking and resolving old limiting patterns. Cutting edge trauma resolution therapies rely on this process for releasing and healing many forms of trauma and repressive conditioning and you will discover the innate intelligence of your inner body awareness and learn to understand its messages.
3. Using these combined tools and processes, you will begin to access your own inner guidance and discover the unique and creative purpose of your Soul. This insight will begin to guide your life and you will discover the joy and fulfillment that your Soul has been Calling you into all along.

Creative Awakening Sessions are best done in a series of sessions to allow the unfolding of your inner story to be revealed, but single sessions are welcome as a way to dip your toe into the water. Using simple materials like an inexpensive journal or pad and crayons or pastels you can begin to utilize this process to explore the uncharted areas of your body, mind and Soul. I look forward to joining you on this path of exploration.

To schedule a session please contact me at Contact Jeanette

As I sat in meditation my body suddenly jolted as if struck by lightening as this image came into my mind. I knew its name was Night Messenger and that it was a gift of inner guidance for me. It felt as if it was sent to me from out of nowhere, but I immediately recognized the importance of it. So I set about sketching it out for future painting, but could not sleep until I actually began the canvas. It has taken me over a month to not only complete the final oil painting, but to also sit with it to hear the message it carries.

When it finally spoke to me it said....
"I come as messenger of the night bringing memory of the Light to your dormant Mind. What do you know of the Creation of the Universe but everything? See this symbol I carry? Watch it swinging gently in the light of the waxing moon. Does this stir your memory? Does this strike at the chord within you to awaken the dormant senses of Spirit? They are not the senses of the flesh that you are so very fixated on. They are the senses of the Divine Mind which knows all through the energetic vibration that all things emit." There is still more coming through from this Divine Messenger, but without doubt it is first and foremost calling all of us to remember our ancient wisdom that is and has always been carried by our own Souls. As we take the time to listen more deeply we will discover that each of us has an inner yearning to share our lives in creative ways that may not have been supported when we were young, but that is knocking on our inner door and asking to be seen and heard once again.

Since this time there has been much inner shifting in my life that is slowly trickling into the outer world. The first is the creation of an online print-on-demand website at Imagekind, where these images are now available in fine art reproductions for under $20 for prints and under $100 for stretched canvases. This is very exciting for me because it will allow me to focus more of my time on the creative expression of my Soul's True Calling.