Strength shows up in different ways. It’s not always bold and overpowering. There’s strength in silence, solitude, patience, and stillness. Strength stands quietly by your side as you weather the storm whispering in your ear giving you the courage to endure.
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Strength {Self-Portrait}
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Connecting Through Art
Self-portraiture gives me a sense of freedom and control. Turning to creativity and art during this distressing time has provided me with both an escape and a feeling of grounding.
Sharing and connecting through our art is more important now than ever before. How can I support you? Let’s support one another and hold space for each other.
Who Are You?
It takes courage to break away from the norm and to be different than what’s expected of you. It can show up in different areas of your life. Art is just one way.
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Being different and unique is being yourself. In what ways and areas of your life does is show up strongest for you? For me, it’s in my self-expression. Being able to create freely without expectations and exceptions is so important to me. Once I began to overcome this hurdle, my artistic vision grew wildly.
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Being different can feel like an outsider looking in, but it’s also an opportunity to create your own world and how you see it. Do you dare to be different in a world where fitting in is so valued? 🎭
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Your Relationship With Self and Art
What’s your relationship with yourself like? What about with your art?
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I work on my relationship with myself every morning when I step onto my yoga mat, every time I put pencil to paper (yes, I prefer to hand write everything and with pencil ✏️ 🙂), every time I make the conscious choice to put the time in to nourish my body and not choose the opposite, every time I pick up or listen to a book, every online class I take to further educate myself (we can never stop learning), and in so many other ways.
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The other night I shared a little BTS video in my Instagram Stories of me setting up for a self-portrait in my backyard. It was completely impromptu. I had gone outside with Linhsey (my daughter) while she played hockey in the driveway, but the fading light and woods whispered for me to come.
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I obliged.
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While I didn’t create anything magical, I embodied and relished myself in the process. I spent so much thought and time in the winter pondering why I wasn’t out there creating as much. The cold and snow had never stopped me in the past. Now I see I just needed to lean in and trust in the process. It may call at the oddest of times, or lie dormant for quite some time. I just need to trust that whatever I’m meant to create, I will.
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I needed to go through this process the other night of feeling that spark of inspiration, setting up, making the images, and taking it all down again. It’s within that process that my relationship to self grows the most.
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What about you?
