HeArt and Healing*

Photo: Annecy Baez – Intuitive Collage – “Dreaming of the Past”

All of my life, I have loved  art, creating, making things with my hands. Art for me is spiritual, sacred healing practice.  I have loved stories, written stories, and visual ones through art.  Stories that are told  with images, collages, photography. I have loved book art, making books, little books and large ones. As a child I was drawn to the expressive arts:  poetry, writing, visual art, music, and movement to name a few. I have kept journals for most of my life, mixed media and digital collages posted on my journals.

I am so glad you are here today. This site  is for your, for everyone who passes by. If you are here right now reading these words, it is because destiny brought you here. For some reason, you and I and these words, and this page were meant to meet. Maybe I am a reminder of your need for adventure, and these words a call to do the things you want to do because they bring you joy and peace. So start today. Start right now.

Sit quietly and allow whatever images surface to surface. You can cut out images from magazines, words too. Collect items that represent your day. Place them in the journal. You can add other found objects on your journal pages too. You can write ideas about future stories, or write the beginning draft of one or you can sit quitely in the morning and write a poem from your dreams. Dreams hold our truth, and in images they are the stories we have been wanting to tell ourself.

Be friend them. Listen to them.

This is a time well spent journeying deep within to your heart. Your body is the vehicle to take you to places you have not allowed yourself to explore. Do this every day, be gentle, even if it is for five minutes. Then see a theme develop, as it tells you a story like a dream.

You can share it with me.

Please remember to seek professional support as this is an informational site only and it does not substitute the therapeutic support of an expressive arts therapist, or psychotherapist.

Báez, A. (2019). HeArt & Healing 2. ChinChinPress, 6(2).