Why Understanding Emotions Isn’t Enough: How The Body Helps You Heal
Many people understand their emotions but still feel stuck. This article explores why insight alone isn’t enough for healing and how the body, nervous system, somatic therapy, and art therapy help release stored emotions, trauma, and chronic stress.
What happens in an Art Therapy session?
Wondering what actually happens in an art therapy session? This blog post walks you through the process and how art therapy supports emotional healing, anxiety relief, and self-connection.
Why Emotions Need Movement
Emotions live in the body, not just the mind. In this post, discover why feelings need movement to release and how somatic healing helps the nervous system feel safe, supported, and free to heal.
A Gentle Start to the New Year: Mindful Practices from a Somatic Art Therapist
We tend to feel pressure to perform, to conform and do things as everyone else is - often from a place of force or expectation. But what if you gave yourself the permission to simply be, ask and then act. To give yourself the time and space to see what it is that you truly want. The new year is a beautiful time to re-evaluate, assess and set intentions, yet maybe this year you allow yourself to do so in a gentle and mindful way. The days are short but overall life is long, why not allow yourself to live it how you truly want to?
Winter Solstice: Rest, Reflection and Creative Renewal
Explore gentle winter solstice rituals rooted in creativity, mindfulness, and somatic awareness to support rest, reflection, and emotional renewal during the darkest days of the year.
Holiday Anxiety: Creative and Somatic Tools to Stay Grounded
If the holidays leave you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally stretched, you’re not alone. This gentle guide offers creative and somatic practices to help you reconnect with your body, find calm, and support your mental well-being.
December Full Moon Rituals: Creative and Somatic Practices for Release
A calming guide to the December full moon with simple art-making rituals and somatic practices to help you let go and enter the new year with ease.
Creative and Somatic Gratitude Practices to Honor your Body
Discover creative and somatic practices that help you deepen gratitude, release stress, and reconnect with your body. Learn simple art-making and mindful movement techniques to support emotional wellbeing and cultivate everyday thankfulness.
Tuning In To Your Inner Flame: Nurturing Light From Within
Learn how art and mindfulness can help you tune into your inner flame — your source of intuition, warmth, and emotional balance.
The Healing Power of Holding Space in Art Therapy and Somatic Healing
Discover the meaning of “holding space” in therapy and how it supports emotional healing. This post explores how both therapists and clients experience holding space—physically, emotionally, and energetically—through Art Therapy and Somatic Healing practices.
How to Start a Creative Journal for Emotional Wellness
Learn more about ways to start your creative journal practice. This blog post discusses ways to set up your space and what supplies you need to start your creative journal. Find the link for your Creative Journal Guide.
The magic of the creative process
Creativity has a way of bringing us back to ourselves. In this post, I share how the art-making process can help you reconnect with play, presence, and your inner world. Whether through painting, movement, or simple creative exploration, art has the power to heal and inspire. Learn how engaging in creativity can support your emotional well-being and discover ways to begin your own healing journey through art therapy in Miami.
The Gift of Boredom: How Stillness Sparks Creativity
Discover how boredom can open the door to creativity and mindfulness. Learn to embrace stillness, reconnect with yourself, and find flow through art and play.
The Art of Gratitude
Discover mindful ways to cultivate gratitude this fall through art, reflection, movement and creativity. Learn about the benefits of gratitude and identify what it is not.
Embracing Fall: Finding Balance, Creativity and Pause
Discover how to embrace fall with mindfulness, creativity, and balance. Learn simple wellness practices, explore art therapy for seasonal transitions, and join our Fall Equinox Women’s Circle in Miami on September 26th.
Finding a sense of balance within
In honor of one of the themes of the Fall Equinox, balance is the practice of choosing to come back to ourselves, our body and finding a sense of inner peace - no matter what is going on around us. This blog post goes into what is balance, why it is an internal process and some tools to find a sense of balance within.
Embracing Change: Somatic and Creative Practices to Move with the Season
Feel calmer during seasonal transitions with gentle somatic tools, art therapy ideas to help your nervous system find balance.
Understanding Your Window of Tolerance
Learn what the Window of Tolerance is - what affects it and how to notice if you are inside or outside your window of tolerance.
Remembering the Magic: How to Connect with Your Inner Child Today
Reconnect with your inner child through a simple practice that invites healing, joy, and self-compassion. Learn how to honor the playful, tender parts of yourself.