How I got here…
The spiritual practices I have engaged with most for the past 30+ years are consistent, strong, creative visualization practices and meditation practices rooted in Tibetan Buddhism and Jhana.
I have spent countless weekends at silent meditation retreat centers, a few dozen two-week silent meditation retreats, and one three-month silent meditation retreat at a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery. I have also engaged in plant medicine ceremonies for the last twenty years.
I am uncertain if I would have been able to get so deeply in touch with my own healing if it hadn’t been for the sustained creative visualization practice I have maintained since high school. The plant medicines led me in such a lovingly profound and powerful way to know there is much more than what we perceive in this reality. This helped deepen my understanding of our ability to create the reality we want to be experiencing. There have been painful experiences that have plagued and limited my joy in life in far too many ways to understand, and for me, plant medicines, creative visualization and a strong meditation practice have been the ways that I have transformed my childhood trauma and painful life events into an integrated part of my awesomeness and love for life and helping others. For all of these spiritual worlds of experiences, I am deeply grateful.
II have also experienced and witnessed profound healing and releasing of trauma in EMDR and somatic treatment with my clients. I believe there are also therapeutic techniques and practices, like EMDR and somatic psychotherapy, dance, yoga, trekking, writing … that can also achieve profound results in healing and releasing.
There is no one way to achieve creative expansion and freedom in your mind.
And I wouldn’t trust anyone who told me their way was the only, or right way for me. These are just the ways I have explored in my life and know very well.
Your path is your own.
And I can help you figure out what way is best for you to get your creativity off the ground.
But ultimately, none of the work I did through retreats or ceremonies would have mattered, without my sober, every day mind integrating those sacred experiences.
I was first introduced to Shakti Gawain’s book Creative Visualization when I was in high school, and I believe that book transformed my life into one that has been magical and empowered. The power of actively visualizing what you truly want in life is, without question, one of the healthiest activities we can engage in.
It takes daily, loving and fun discipline to maintain our open creative minds. And that is why I am here, if you are needing support with your creative endeavor, please reach out, I’d love to hear from you.
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