February 26, 2025 • 42 mins
Healing Through Art: Unlocking Emotional Well-being
In this episode of 'Practically Magick,' host Courtney Pearl explores the transformative power of healing through art. She shares her journey from a mainstream education teacher to an art instructor and healer, integrating emotional and energy healing with art classes. Pulling the 'Devil' tarot card, Courtney delves into how art can help break negative patterns and coping mechanisms. She emphasizes the importance of self-confidence, emotional intelligence, and curiosity in her teaching approach, recounting her experience of overcoming personal challenges.
Courtney introduces her 'Healing Through Art' workshops, describing its methodology, including the use of colors to express emotions and the adaptation of integrative processing techniques. The episode concludes with information on upcoming events and how to stay connected with Courtney's work.
00:00 Welcome to Practically Magick
00:48 The Devil Card: Misconceptions and Meanings
02:44 Healing Through Art: My Journey
04:20 Art as a Catalyst for Emotional Healing
06:33 Overcoming Artistic Insecurities
07:55 The Importance of Creative Expression
09:10 Teaching Art to Different Age Groups
13:11 Healing Through Art Workshops
15:19 The Power of Mistakes in Art
16:37 Integrating Emotional Healing with Art
17:42 Full Moon Healing Through Art Course
37:59 Upcoming Events and Workshops
41:24 Final Thoughts and Thank Yous
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Hello, welcome to Practically Magick.
I am your host, Courtney Pearl.
Today I am your healer and I am going totalk to you about healing through art.
I often say to my art students how youfeel about art is how you feel about life.
So let's get into it.
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I have
the Everyday Witch tarot deck thatI'm going to pull a card from today.
Okay.
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All right.
And today I have pulled the Devil card.
Of course, the card that gives Tarot abad name because everybody thinks that
it's of the devil or it invites the devilor something associated with the devil.
But actually, this card is in thedeck because it's an archetype.
It does not mean the literaldevil, which of course, none
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of the cards mean literally.
Although sometimes they do.
Depends on how you read them, I guess.
But this card in particular comes upwhen I feel like The association or the
invitation for us to look at is what is itthat you keep falling into patterns about?
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Falling into getting associatedwith, getting these vices,
these addictions, these copingmechanisms that don't serve you.
that are not aligned with who youreally are and who you want to be.
And so it's kind of like the devil inyour shoulder is the way that I see it.
I'll show the picture, but if you areunable to see it because it's audio, then
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you need to go to my YouTube channel.
So you can see in this card, I lovethese, uh, fun little sort of cartoon,
um, artwork in this everyday witch deck.
Uh, it's sort of giving the impressionthat the devil on your shoulder telling
you, just do what feels good or dowhat feels like it would help without
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your actual self, your actualizedself, being able to say, actually, if
I keep engaging with those patternsand falling into old cycles, I will
just end up, um, more miserable.
I will just end up not.
really processing or dealingwith what's going on.
And that is going to play apart in the discussion we're
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going to have today about art.
Um, I have been an artteacher for many years.
I started out as a regular, um,Mainstream education teacher.
Taught kindergarten and first grade.
And because I was in a charterschool most of that time, we
were also the specials teachers.
So, we did physical activity withthe children, we did, um, we taught
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the, any music or, extracurriculars.
Um, and so I was able tostretch my art skills, something
that I loved to do anyway.
I was, um, an artist in high schooland college and so I got to teach
art to these little little kids aswell as their regular curriculum.
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And so when I had my children and Iwas staying home with them, I decided
to teach art lessons after school.
Small art classes started just aroundmy dining room table after school.
And, uh, that was really fulfillingand wonderful and fit very nicely into
my life while my kids were little.
And as I, have been taking acareer path towards healing work.
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When I went to the Instituteof Healing Arts to learn how to
facilitate emotional processes.
When I learned about Reiki and starteddoing emotional and energy healing, um, I
really felt like art had a very vital rolein what I was going to play as far as how
that healing work was going to show up.
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Because I didn't have to separateteaching art lessons and healing work.
Um, my art lessons adapted to what newknowledge and experiences I could bring
to the table, and I began to see artas an amazing catalyst for healing.
Um, so for example, children who come tome for art lessons, um, there are many
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amazing art teachers in our local area.
We have some art classes, we have, um,Little schools that teach art, uh, and
I've met several artists that teachart lessons, watercolor classes, things
like that, and they're all amazing.
And I, uh, I absolutely recommendthem when I meet a student or
an artist who wants to learnand develop their art skills.
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They want to get better at the foundationsof how to make The picture look like
they wanted to look right techniqueand skill even I have a lot to learn
in that area but What I feel that Ican bring to the table when it comes to
my art classes is we learn very littleskill Um, in that area, I of course
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guide the students on how to make theirpicture look like they wanted to look.
I teach them about watercolortechniques, things like that.
But as far as the overall percentageof what we're doing there, I would
say that's about 20 percent is skill.
Because what I really focus on is selfconfidence, emotional intelligence, using
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art as a way to express ourselves andas a way to understand ourselves better.
I don't know how many times in thepast few years when I've tried speaking
to people about what I do and I,um, I did a really amazing thing.
I think it's very amazing, but Itook the, uh, emotional process
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which is also a healing cycle, um,the integrated processing technique
that I do in one on one sessionsthat I learned to facilitate it.
I decided it would be a really amazingadaptation to be able to offer that
process to a group of people whowere painting or using art to pull
out shapes and colors of energy.
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And so that's what I adapted it intoa workshop, Healing Through Art.
Now when I tell people about this,when I say, Oh, I have this amazing
workshop that I'm offering andit's Healing Through Art, it's an
emotional process through a painting.
painting session.
Um, a lot of people, I, I cannotbegin to tell you how many people,
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the reaction is they freeze.
They are pretty much, they hearthe word art or painting, and you
can just see, well I can, I canjust see the inner child in them.
Whoever in the past told themthat they can't do art or however
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they decided they can't do art.
I can see it in their face wherethey're just like, Oh, painting.
Oh no, no, that's not for me.
I don't do that.
I'm not good at art.
And I just think to myself, isn'tthat interesting that everyone,
not everyone, but most people havedecided somewhere along the lines
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that they are just not an artist.
I'm just not an artist.
Oh, I can only draw stick figures.
That's what I hear a lot.
And there's so much to dive intothat, but what I feel that that helps
highlight is where the healing begins.
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So again, the way people feel aboutart, Their engagement with creativity,
and that can include music, it caninclude, uh, you know, any form of art
that is a creative outlet for them.
But the way that someone might view thatis the way they might feel about life.
Do they just avoid what they feelis too hard or scary, or they
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just know they can't do it right?
Have they decided there is a right wayto do it and there's a wrong way to do it
and therefore they cannot engage with it.
Because our creative center, the sacralchakra, it empowers us to be able to
visualize and create the world we wouldlike to have, to be in, to be a part of.
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Every single person walking thisearth right now It needs some
form of creative energy to beable to say, what's next for me?
What's the next right thing for me?
What am I going to do next?
What do I want to make my business into?
What do I want this nextproject to look like?
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What would my family, myhome, uh, my future look like?
And so, I want to talk about successand failure because It is right around
the developmental age of nine thatnine year olds begin to decipher
what is success and what is failure.
And it is so interesting to watchchildren grow to a point, and it
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is always around age nine, could beeight, could be ten, could be eleven,
but around age nine is when theydecide they are not a good artist.
I see it time and time again.
That is why when I used to teachart lessons, I would take children
from age five all the way up to 12.
And after several years of that, Irealized I needed to shift things a
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little bit because actually five toeight year olds do not need anybody
just to teach them art or to help themunderstand that they are an artist.
Five to eight year olds walk intothis world, artists, and they.
paint and they draw and theycolor and they create purely
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on instinct for the most part.
And I won't say that totallyapplies to every small child, but
it depends on their experience.
And for the most part, I have never hadto convince a small child that they're
an artist and that they can create art.
What I found was that the nine to 18year olds are the ones who, at some
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point, they're nervous about their art.
They start to judge their own art.
They start to decide that they areeither a success or failure at art,
at creation, at what they're making.
And that is where I wanted tofocus my weekly art lessons.
So I have an art class called Myth andMagick art class, and I still do teach
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it around my old dining room table,but now it's not my dining room table.
It's the art table designatedin my art room just for art.
And I love every Tuesday whenmy art students come, we do
a little bit of story time.
I usually pull out a myth orfolklore that I think would be
applicable to our lesson that day.
Um, sometimes we will do a warm upactivity or a right brain activity.
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Um, something to get the creativejuices flowing, to get our brain on
our right side engaged with creativity.
And I also love these activitiesbecause I pick certain things that
I know will push aside judgment.
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For example, blind contour drawings,which means that you cannot look
at your paper while you're drawing.
You can only look at thesubject you're drawing.
So it might be someone's face, orit might be an object that I've
put in the table, but they're notallowed to look at their paper.
They simply put their pen on the paperand start and they do not lift their
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pen off the paper until the timer goesoff and we see what they've created.
This is an important kind of activityto do for artists because I want
the students to understand it's notabout the product or it's not about
the quality of art that you make.
It's teaching yourself to seethe world in different ways.
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So when they are keeping their eyestrained on their subject, they are
focusing on being observant and followingthe lines and shapes of the subject
in front of them, rather than I needto make sure my paper is correct.
I'm using air quotes incase you can't see me.
Correct.
I am trying to shove aside someof those ideas that there is a
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correct way to do art and there'sa not correct way to do art.
I know the art world and thosethat market art and those that have
galleries, they would have opinionson what is the right way to do art
and what's the wrong way to do art.
But I am a healer.
So my opinions are there is noright or wrong way to do it.
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And one of the ways I teach this tochildren and to adults, when I do
my healing through art workshops is,
have you ever been walkingor hiking out in nature?
You're on a trail, you're in themountains, you're in the woods, you're
wherever, and you come upon a tree.
that looks interesting to you.
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You just happen to notice it morethan the other trees around you.
You just go, Oh, look, look at this tree.
Do you judge the tree forlooking or being wrong?
Or do you just say,that's a beautiful tree.
That's a tree.
It's a wonderful tree.
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It is what it is.
It's a crooked tree.
It's a Windy, bendy tree.
It's a very straight tree.
Whatever.
It's a tree.
Do we judge the tree?
No, because it's a natural occurrence.
It grew from the ground and itsurvived however it needed to survive.
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Perhaps it needed to bend andtwist to get through rocks and
boulders as it was growing.
And therefore it's a littlebent and sideways and whatever.
But the tree is not andwill never be wrong.
And I try to help studentsengaging with art to understand
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their artwork in that way.
It's not wrong.
It just is.
Right?
And we learn so much aboutourselves in that struggle.
In the battle of, oh, thispicture I'm working on doesn't
look like I wanted it to look.
I want to throw it away and start over.
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I have a few students rightnow that struggle with this.
Um, and so I pulled out a book that mydear friend, Alicia Hensley, look up, um,
Alicia Hensley, uh, who does design work.
She and I were hosting a Daybreak Networkmeeting and she brought this book up.
The Book of Mistakes.
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So.
If you're not watching on YouTube, it isthe Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken.
I think it's how you say it, Luyken.
I will put these references in theshow notes, but, um, the Book of
Mistakes has some beautiful, beautiful,illustrated artwork for the pictures.
And the important thing to rememberis that when the illustrator is making
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their pictures, they make mistakes.
So one eye is too big and thenthey try to match the other eye
and then that eye gets too big.
And it says these are mistakes.
But putting glasses onher, that was a good idea.
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Rather than throw the picture away,the artist continually makes mistakes
and then finds ways or opportunitiesto make those mistakes into good ideas.
When I make an intentional choice tomake my picture into something new and
different, I am engaging with curiosity.
I'm engaging with theenergy of creativity.
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So, what I would like tohighlight in understanding how
art correlates with our energy.
These healing through art workshopsthat I do, um, and IPT session already
engages with the energy of color.
And if you have not checked out myepisode in season one about colors and
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why they are a vibrational frequencyor energy, please go check that out.
It was an amazing episode.
I'm very proud of it.
I did a lot of research and it's areally, really cool idea to think about
how colors are not just aspects of light.
In fact, Psychologists havediscovered they are emotions.
They are our emotional energeticreaction to seeing that color,
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seeing that vibrational frequency.
And so when I do an IPT session,I will ask people to engage
with their emotions as a color.
What color is your emotion?
And they have to pull that out.
They are engaging their left brain,speaking about difficult things, heavy
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emotions, and then they're engaging theirright brain by assigning it a color.
And all I did with the HealingThrough Art workshop, which is now a
Healing Through Art full moon coursethat you can take starting in April.
Our new session starts in April.
If you'd like to sign up, it's amazing.
This is the one we made lastweek in our Full Moon course.
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So I facilitate and walk the classthrough an emotional process.
We go through a meditation todiscover what is the age of decision
that we're working with today.
Um, we work through heavy emotionsthat might have happened at that age.
And so I will say, okay, identifywhat fear your inner child is having.
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What would the fear be about?
And then we're going to paint it outon our canvas as a color and a shape.
So we are not trying to make a picture.
This isn't like your wine and paintnight thing where someone paints a
beautiful picture and you follow alongand then everybody gets to go home with
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a carbon copy of the exact same picture.
And I think those are great by the way.
I'm not making fun of them.
I've done some paint nights and Iactually learned quite a lot about
some techniques I didn't know.
So I'm all for a good datenight, good ladies night out.
glass of wine orchampagne and paint night.
But this class is not going to give youa, just a beautiful image to take home.
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This class is going to give you apainting specifically of your struggle
and replace it with positive energy.
So this is one that I started out with.
Um, this is one I did for myself.
When I started the painting, I wasPainting out fear as the screen triangle.
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I was painting out, I, I am embarrassed.
Um, you know, these all representheavy energies in blue and purple
and orange and, and in the shapesthat I felt that they needed to be.
So we spend a little time on thisand then we journal, uh, And we go
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through an entire cycle of healing,just like the Avalonian Cycles of
Healing in Jenna Tendry's book.
Um, it's the same process.
It's the same cycles.
We identify what is it thatour inner child needed and how
did they get that need met.
It's a powerful experience, but it'svery powerful because you are the
one guiding yourself through it.
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And You are having zero judgmentor expectation on what the
painting is going to look like.
I had no idea what thiswas going to look like.
This is what my paintingended up looking like.
I have been doing this for twoyears, every month, um, with
different groups of people, and Ihave never seen two paintings that
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look anything like each other.
Everybody's painting andexperiences their own.
every single person who comesinto my class as an artist.
So we do this and then at theend to replace it we might
choose to turn it upside down.
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We might choose to draw with our sharpiemarkers over it and make it into a new
image that is the gift we are receivingat the end of our healing process.
We can take that home and paint over it.
This next painting I'm going toshow you, this started out as
a Healing Through Art painting.
Underneath it was all the shapes andcolors that I wanted to, uh, represent
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what I was feeling at the time.
And then after I did that, I started usingthat same canvas as a background for a
painting that I, was inspired to create.
So this is a famous photograph aboutthe Great Depression and I decided
to paint the woman in the, in thephotograph because it was meaningful
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to me at one point in my life.
And I used a lot of colors,
As I said before, it's not about havingthe skill to paint something like that.
That's something I decided to do with it.
But I want people to engage with artand creativity in a way that heals.
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When I was a kid, I wastaking, um, piano lessons.
And it was kind of, I was talked intoit, like, lots of kids take piano
lessons, you should take piano lessons.
And I struggled so much because Ididn't have a lot of self confidence
and I was very hard on myself.
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And honestly, making mistakes in asong as I'm trying to play the song as
perfectly as I can was too much for me.
I got into self harm andjust really low self esteem.
Piano didn't cause that.
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It was a,
what's the word?
It was a catalyst for thatto act out in my life.
And so I regret that it happenedthat way, but I didn't have
a teacher telling me that themistakes are part of the learning.
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I thought I should be better at this.
I should be able to playthis song without mistakes.
And I would play the songs overand over, but I would get to the
mistake and I would stop playing.
I would get mad, frustrated, angry,and I would start the song over.
As an adult, I talked to another pianoteacher who's very good at her job and she
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said, Oh, I, I always teach my studentsnot to stop when they make a mistake.
I teach them to keep going, toplay through the mistakes, make the
mistakes and just keep playing anyway.
I cannot even begin to tell youhow that understanding, that way of
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seeing it, healed a part of my innerchild to know that it could have been
different and I could have seen myselfas a piano player, someone who is
good at piano, if I had kept going.
I thought, I understand howto make mistakes in art.
I know how to draw something wrongand then make something out of that.
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So I preferred art lessons andI, and I went that route instead.
I convinced my parentsthat piano was not for me.
But I think that in every creativeway that we can engage creatively
with something that allows us to workthrough those parts that are triggering.
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And I teach my studentsthat colors are energy.
You can move that energy out of thebody through the paint and through the
colors that you choose to paint out.
And it should feel good.
It shouldn't feel frustrating.
It shouldn't feel, um,triggering after a while.
Um, you should be able to look at theartwork that you've created and say, Well,
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that turned out different than I thought.
Or That turned out exactly like I thought.
Or, I'm an artist because I do art.
It doesn't have to be good, andit doesn't have to be anyone
else's standards of good.
It just has to be art, and if Icreate it, that makes me an artist.
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So when people say to me, oh, I'mnot an artist, it's very difficult
for me not to react with, why doyou think that about yourself?
When did you come to that decision?
And is there anything thatwe can do about that now?
Because I think there is.
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Um, I also love to engage with mystudents and talking about authenticity,
that when a painting is showing up ora drawing is showing up authentically,
when you are in your most authenticstate of mind and being, there is a
way to tell if you are engaging inthat authenticity or if you are not.
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And I like to say that everythingstarts with the letter C. If you
know that you are in your mostauthentic self, you will be calm.
You will be connected.
Now that could be connected to sourceor, or earth or creative energy.
That's what connected means.
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You are curious.
So this is the opposite of judgment.
I'm not going to say that's wrong,that's bad, I'm not good at this.
You know, the devil on your shoulder whois telling you you're not good at it.
That's where the devil cardcomes into our episode today.
I'm not good at this.
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I don't know what I'm doing.
Everyone else is better than me.
All that.
If you are not engaging in judgment,you have Curiosity instead.
I am curious what willhappen if I do this.
I'm curious why you chose to do that way.
I am curious, not judgmental.
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You are compassionate.
Compassionate.
Oh my gosh, this is a big one.
You have to be compassionate.
Compassionate towards yourself and others.
If someone else tells you your art isterrible or that you're no good at it.
I didn't know that was a dog.
That didn't look anything like a dog.
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Have compassion for them becausethey may not understand what art
is and how to engage with it.
Have compassion for yourself.
In moments when you feel likeI'm creating something and it's
not going well, it's not working.
It's, I made a mistake.
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I put the wrong color in the wrong places.
I drew it too big.
I drew it too small, whatever it is.
That voice inside thatsays, I'm no good at this.
I'm not an artist.
Compassion for yourself, compassionfor people that would judge
you and say, You know what?
Maybe my picture doesn't look like a dogand she doesn't think it looks like a dog.
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But I'm also not going to be done with it.
I'm going to keep creating.
And that's the other C word.
Creation.
Creative.
When you are in a creative mode,you are in your authentic self.
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Hello, welcome back.
We were discussing the,
the Cs of how to tell if you arein your most authentic state.
And I want to just circle backaround because to me, this is sort
of the, the comparison or differencebetween engaging with spirituality
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in religion versus intuition.
Because when we are Using creativethings like our creativity in art
or other modalities, I feel that weare moving into a space where we're
trusting our own body, our own mind,our own connection, versus relying on
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someone else to tell us what is right.
right or wrong, if that makes sense.
Um, and this is not to rag on anyonewho is religious or who subscribes to
a religious organization, but I thinkthat it is highly suggested for you
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to be most connected and authenticfor yourself is to trust yourself.
Trust that you know what's bestfor you and that you are expressing
yourself in the way that is most truefor you and stepping into a place of
sovereignty where you are the authorityin your own spiritual connection.
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That makes sense.
So I understand, and I've talkedabout this on other podcasts before,
where we talked about paganism versusreligious spiritual experience.
But the important thing to remember withthat is that no matter which way that
you engage with what you see as yourhigher power or as guidance for your
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life, it's really important that Youfeel that it is authentic to you, that
you are in a growth mindset and thatyou are feeling that You came to these
decisions because you asked questions,because you had curiosity, because when
something did not feel aligned withyou, you were able to question that.
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And sometimes with a religious experience,when it comes to that sort of interaction
with spirituality, a lot of timesyou are told not to question it, but
to act on someone else's authority.
And that's kind of why art isa perfect, uh, A perfect What
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is the word I'm looking for?
I keep trying to think of it.
The perfect
vehicle?
That kind of fits.
Vehicle for which you can driveyour own finding yourself, right?
Your art is your own.
It's personal, right?
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And there can be critics and therecan be art experts who tell you that
your art is not aesthetic, that it'snot correct, or that you don't have
the correct technique and skill.
But they said all of those thingsabout Vincent van Gogh, and he,
and it turns out he's one of thegreatest painters of all time.
That's because he didn't paintbased on what was supposed to be.
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And what, um, techniques and skill thatthey deemed were good and talented at
that place and time in Paris, France.
At that time?
No, he painted what he felt.
He painted what the worldlooked like from his eyes.
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through the lens of his painand his appreciation for beauty.
And I think that's really powerful.
All right.
So in finishing up, I just want to showyou how this aligns with our, uh, Prism
Healing's, Healing Through Art course.
Um, when I started to adapt theintegrative processing technique into
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an art course, I, as I said before,I was already teaching art classes.
And so it was a really smoothtransition to be able to say, Emotional
healing, the type of emotionalhealing I do with people, requires
them to identify what their feelingslook like or feel like in a color.
Then it only makes sense to adapt thatinto a painting class where with different
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mediums we can engage with watercolor andacrylic and watercolor pencil and I've
done crayons, um, many different, manydifferent mediums of art but that you
can express the feelings through paintingthem out and moving energy from the body
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and from your past experiences out of thebody through expression, art expression.
So I did take the integratedprocessing technique, which I do
one on one as a session, and Iadapted it into a full moon course.
And what that looks likeis we do a healing through
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art, It's a two hour class.
Um, the same group of peoplefor six months get to go
through the course together.
Each month has a different theme basedon the Mythic Moons of Avalon and some
mythic portion that goes along with that.
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We engage with the storytelling andwe Um, ask ourselves and reflect on
certain things that are coming up for us.
So from the dark moon to the full moon,we're becoming aware of what shadow
parts we need to address and what'scoming up for us in that particular
time, in that astrological time period.
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And then we get to identifywhat is ready to be released.
What do we want torelease at the full moon?
And with that, as a guide, What Itypically do with a session is I
will muscle test an age of decision.
What age is needing to releasesomething from the body, from the,
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from the ages that we've been?
What negative belief patterns?
What heavy emotions?
And so when I muscle test that,that age in a one on one session.
I will engage with a meditation in a groupsession so that everybody gets to identify
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and pull forward an age they would liketo work with in that class that day.
And then I will guide.
the class through an entire healing cycle.
So from the dissension stage into theconfrontation stage, when we confront
our shadows, all the way throughemergence, and then integration with
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our left and our right brain, our body,mind, and spirit, we get to have a
full immersive experience with that.
And We get to support each other in asmall group setting so that everybody in
that group gets to enhance their healingexperience because everybody in the
group oftentimes has similar experiences.
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I've even done those sessions whereit turns out without talking to each
other about it, Every single person,almost every single person in the
entire group is working at the same age.
It's kind of hilarious and coincidental,but those are not synchronicities
that happen for no reason.
Everybody's working on somethingthat, uh, It feels like we
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are all working on together.
So I did have the entire class, six peopleis the entire class, and everybody was
working at age seven at the same time.
And so that was really powerful.
So we got to share our experiencesand even enhance the healing
with the shared experience.
And then, of course, at the end ofthe class, we receive a gift and we
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age up, and we make sure that ourpainting, what has expressed our
feelings and emotions for that time,is also a gift that we receive back.
Releasing and clearing all of thenegative energy and replacing it with
positive energy and new belief systemsand patterns that will serve us as we age.
better and meet our needs better.
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It is an incredible workshop.
So if you live locally and youwould like to try this workshop
that I have, uh, going on, it'sgoing to start again in April.
So it will go every month right before,during or Immediately after the full
moon is how I've set up the classes.
So it will be within the few days of thefull moon or before the full moon so that
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you're getting ready for the release.
And I also have a group me groupduring the class as we're going along.
that gets to talk about thingstogether in a, in a very
intimate and supportive setting.
So everyone in the class will getan opportunity to be a part of that
groupme, and then each week I postreflection questions, journal questions,
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discussion questions that have todo with the phase of the moon each
week, taking us through the cycles ofhealing throughout the entire month,
as well as that same cycle that happensin the two hours we are in class.
So larger cycles and smaller cycles,because that's what healing is.
It's all about these cycles andfollowing the flow of those cycles
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of our bodies and learning howto integrate them into our lives.
So if that sounds like something you'd beinterested in, remember when I confront
you about these healing through artclasses that I teach, just know that I
am not asking you to join an art class.
I am asking you to engagewith art as a healing.
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session as a healing opportunity.
So that is what I haveoffered coming up in April.
Um, you can check out that on my website.
We'll be on www.
prism healing.
com is where I will haveall of my upcoming events.
I have a my body, mydance party coming up.
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I am just releasing tickets.
today, the day I'm recording this,not the day I'm releasing it.
So by the time this isreleased, it will already be up.
So go check that out.
We have a limitedtickets that we can sell.
It's going to be a pretty fun and amazing,but also kind of small dance party.
So only 80 tickets will be sold.
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And that sounds like alot, but it's kind of.
you know, kind of smallfor a dance party, I guess.
So you can check that out on my websitethat will be available to purchase.
So if you are local and you would liketo engage with some of those things that
I have going on, if you are not local,I do have a couple of online classes
that I'll be releasing on my website.
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So stay tuned for my rituals andspells class coming up and an online
altars, creating sacred spacesclass that you can take over Zoom.
They will be online so anyone fromanywhere in the world can hop on.
And those will not at this momentin time be recorded and released.
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So you will want to be on theclass live to get in on that.
And it's only 10.
So very affordable for anyonewho would like to join us.
So you can check those out.
And if you want to follow me toget Reminders about those events,
you can follow me at on Instagramat Prism underscore Healing.
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Go make magic witches and wizards!
Hello, welcome to Practically Magick.
I am your host, Courtney Pearl.
Today I am your healer and I am going totalk to you about healing through art.
I often say to my art students how youfeel about art is how you feel about life.
So let's get into it.
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I have
the Everyday Witch tarot deck thatI'm going to pull a card from today.
Okay.
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All right.
And today I have pulled the Devil card.
Of course, the card that gives Tarot abad name because everybody thinks that
it's of the devil or it invites the devilor something associated with the devil.
But actually, this card is in thedeck because it's an archetype.
It does not mean the literaldevil, which of course, none
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of the cards mean literally.
Although sometimes they do.
Depends on how you read them, I guess.
But this card in particular comes upwhen I feel like The association or the
invitation for us to look at is what is itthat you keep falling into patterns about?
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Falling into getting associatedwith, getting these vices,
these addictions, these copingmechanisms that don't serve you.
that are not aligned with who youreally are and who you want to be.
And so it's kind of like the devil inyour shoulder is the way that I see it.
I'll show the picture, but if you areunable to see it because it's audio, then
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you need to go to my YouTube channel.
So you can see in this card, I lovethese, uh, fun little sort of cartoon,
um, artwork in this everyday witch deck.
Uh, it's sort of giving the impressionthat the devil on your shoulder telling
you, just do what feels good or dowhat feels like it would help without
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your actual self, your actualizedself, being able to say, actually, if
I keep engaging with those patternsand falling into old cycles, I will
just end up, um, more miserable.
I will just end up not.
really processing or dealingwith what's going on.
And that is going to play apart in the discussion we're
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going to have today about art.
Um, I have been an artteacher for many years.
I started out as a regular, um,Mainstream education teacher.
Taught kindergarten and first grade.
And because I was in a charterschool most of that time, we
were also the specials teachers.
So, we did physical activity withthe children, we did, um, we taught
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the, any music or, extracurriculars.
Um, and so I was able tostretch my art skills, something
that I loved to do anyway.
I was, um, an artist in high schooland college and so I got to teach
art to these little little kids aswell as their regular curriculum.
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And so when I had my children and Iwas staying home with them, I decided
to teach art lessons after school.
Small art classes started just aroundmy dining room table after school.
And, uh, that was really fulfillingand wonderful and fit very nicely into
my life while my kids were little.
And as I, have been taking acareer path towards healing work.
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When I went to the Instituteof Healing Arts to learn how to
facilitate emotional processes.
When I learned about Reiki and starteddoing emotional and energy healing, um, I
really felt like art had a very vital rolein what I was going to play as far as how
that healing work was going to show up.
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Because I didn't have to separateteaching art lessons and healing work.
Um, my art lessons adapted to what newknowledge and experiences I could bring
to the table, and I began to see artas an amazing catalyst for healing.
Um, so for example, children who come tome for art lessons, um, there are many
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amazing art teachers in our local area.
We have some art classes, we have, um,Little schools that teach art, uh, and
I've met several artists that teachart lessons, watercolor classes, things
like that, and they're all amazing.
And I, uh, I absolutely recommendthem when I meet a student or
an artist who wants to learnand develop their art skills.
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They want to get better at the foundationsof how to make The picture look like
they wanted to look right techniqueand skill even I have a lot to learn
in that area but What I feel that Ican bring to the table when it comes to
my art classes is we learn very littleskill Um, in that area, I of course
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guide the students on how to make theirpicture look like they wanted to look.
I teach them about watercolortechniques, things like that.
But as far as the overall percentageof what we're doing there, I would
say that's about 20 percent is skill.
Because what I really focus on is selfconfidence, emotional intelligence, using
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art as a way to express ourselves andas a way to understand ourselves better.
I don't know how many times in thepast few years when I've tried speaking
to people about what I do and I,um, I did a really amazing thing.
I think it's very amazing, but Itook the, uh, emotional process
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which is also a healing cycle, um,the integrated processing technique
that I do in one on one sessionsthat I learned to facilitate it.
I decided it would be a really amazingadaptation to be able to offer that
process to a group of people whowere painting or using art to pull
out shapes and colors of energy.
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And so that's what I adapted it intoa workshop, Healing Through Art.
Now when I tell people about this,when I say, Oh, I have this amazing
workshop that I'm offering andit's Healing Through Art, it's an
emotional process through a painting.
painting session.
Um, a lot of people, I, I cannotbegin to tell you how many people,
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the reaction is they freeze.
They are pretty much, they hearthe word art or painting, and you
can just see, well I can, I canjust see the inner child in them.
Whoever in the past told themthat they can't do art or however
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they decided they can't do art.
I can see it in their face wherethey're just like, Oh, painting.
Oh no, no, that's not for me.
I don't do that.
I'm not good at art.
And I just think to myself, isn'tthat interesting that everyone,
not everyone, but most people havedecided somewhere along the lines
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that they are just not an artist.
I'm just not an artist.
Oh, I can only draw stick figures.
That's what I hear a lot.
And there's so much to dive intothat, but what I feel that that helps
highlight is where the healing begins.
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So again, the way people feel aboutart, Their engagement with creativity,
and that can include music, it caninclude, uh, you know, any form of art
that is a creative outlet for them.
But the way that someone might view thatis the way they might feel about life.
Do they just avoid what they feelis too hard or scary, or they
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just know they can't do it right?
Have they decided there is a right wayto do it and there's a wrong way to do it
and therefore they cannot engage with it.
Because our creative center, the sacralchakra, it empowers us to be able to
visualize and create the world we wouldlike to have, to be in, to be a part of.
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Every single person walking thisearth right now It needs some
form of creative energy to beable to say, what's next for me?
What's the next right thing for me?
What am I going to do next?
What do I want to make my business into?
What do I want this nextproject to look like?
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What would my family, myhome, uh, my future look like?
And so, I want to talk about successand failure because It is right around
the developmental age of nine thatnine year olds begin to decipher
what is success and what is failure.
And it is so interesting to watchchildren grow to a point, and it
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is always around age nine, could beeight, could be ten, could be eleven,
but around age nine is when theydecide they are not a good artist.
I see it time and time again.
That is why when I used to teachart lessons, I would take children
from age five all the way up to 12.
And after several years of that, Irealized I needed to shift things a
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little bit because actually five toeight year olds do not need anybody
just to teach them art or to help themunderstand that they are an artist.
Five to eight year olds walk intothis world, artists, and they.
paint and they draw and theycolor and they create purely
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on instinct for the most part.
And I won't say that totallyapplies to every small child, but
it depends on their experience.
And for the most part, I have never hadto convince a small child that they're
an artist and that they can create art.
What I found was that the nine to 18year olds are the ones who, at some
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point, they're nervous about their art.
They start to judge their own art.
They start to decide that they areeither a success or failure at art,
at creation, at what they're making.
And that is where I wanted tofocus my weekly art lessons.
So I have an art class called Myth andMagick art class, and I still do teach
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it around my old dining room table,but now it's not my dining room table.
It's the art table designatedin my art room just for art.
And I love every Tuesday whenmy art students come, we do
a little bit of story time.
I usually pull out a myth orfolklore that I think would be
applicable to our lesson that day.
Um, sometimes we will do a warm upactivity or a right brain activity.
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Um, something to get the creativejuices flowing, to get our brain on
our right side engaged with creativity.
And I also love these activitiesbecause I pick certain things that
I know will push aside judgment.
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For example, blind contour drawings,which means that you cannot look
at your paper while you're drawing.
You can only look at thesubject you're drawing.
So it might be someone's face, orit might be an object that I've
put in the table, but they're notallowed to look at their paper.
They simply put their pen on the paperand start and they do not lift their
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pen off the paper until the timer goesoff and we see what they've created.
This is an important kind of activityto do for artists because I want
the students to understand it's notabout the product or it's not about
the quality of art that you make.
It's teaching yourself to seethe world in different ways.
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So when they are keeping their eyestrained on their subject, they are
focusing on being observant and followingthe lines and shapes of the subject
in front of them, rather than I needto make sure my paper is correct.
I'm using air quotes incase you can't see me.
Correct.
I am trying to shove aside someof those ideas that there is a
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correct way to do art and there'sa not correct way to do art.
I know the art world and thosethat market art and those that have
galleries, they would have opinionson what is the right way to do art
and what's the wrong way to do art.
But I am a healer.
So my opinions are there is noright or wrong way to do it.
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And one of the ways I teach this tochildren and to adults, when I do
my healing through art workshops is,
have you ever been walkingor hiking out in nature?
You're on a trail, you're in themountains, you're in the woods, you're
wherever, and you come upon a tree.
that looks interesting to you.
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You just happen to notice it morethan the other trees around you.
You just go, Oh, look, look at this tree.
Do you judge the tree forlooking or being wrong?
Or do you just say,that's a beautiful tree.
That's a tree.
It's a wonderful tree.
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It is what it is.
It's a crooked tree.
It's a Windy, bendy tree.
It's a very straight tree.
Whatever.
It's a tree.
Do we judge the tree?
No, because it's a natural occurrence.
It grew from the ground and itsurvived however it needed to survive.
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Perhaps it needed to bend andtwist to get through rocks and
boulders as it was growing.
And therefore it's a littlebent and sideways and whatever.
But the tree is not andwill never be wrong.
And I try to help studentsengaging with art to understand
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their artwork in that way.
It's not wrong.
It just is.
Right?
And we learn so much aboutourselves in that struggle.
In the battle of, oh, thispicture I'm working on doesn't
look like I wanted it to look.
I want to throw it away and start over.
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I have a few students rightnow that struggle with this.
Um, and so I pulled out a book that mydear friend, Alicia Hensley, look up, um,
Alicia Hensley, uh, who does design work.
She and I were hosting a Daybreak Networkmeeting and she brought this book up.
The Book of Mistakes.
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So.
If you're not watching on YouTube, it isthe Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken.
I think it's how you say it, Luyken.
I will put these references in theshow notes, but, um, the Book of
Mistakes has some beautiful, beautiful,illustrated artwork for the pictures.
And the important thing to rememberis that when the illustrator is making
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their pictures, they make mistakes.
So one eye is too big and thenthey try to match the other eye
and then that eye gets too big.
And it says these are mistakes.
But putting glasses onher, that was a good idea.
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Rather than throw the picture away,the artist continually makes mistakes
and then finds ways or opportunitiesto make those mistakes into good ideas.
When I make an intentional choice tomake my picture into something new and
different, I am engaging with curiosity.
I'm engaging with theenergy of creativity.
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So, what I would like tohighlight in understanding how
art correlates with our energy.
These healing through art workshopsthat I do, um, and IPT session already
engages with the energy of color.
And if you have not checked out myepisode in season one about colors and
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why they are a vibrational frequencyor energy, please go check that out.
It was an amazing episode.
I'm very proud of it.
I did a lot of research and it's areally, really cool idea to think about
how colors are not just aspects of light.
In fact, Psychologists havediscovered they are emotions.
They are our emotional energeticreaction to seeing that color,
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seeing that vibrational frequency.
And so when I do an IPT session,I will ask people to engage
with their emotions as a color.
What color is your emotion?
And they have to pull that out.
They are engaging their left brain,speaking about difficult things, heavy
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emotions, and then they're engaging theirright brain by assigning it a color.
And all I did with the HealingThrough Art workshop, which is now a
Healing Through Art full moon coursethat you can take starting in April.
Our new session starts in April.
If you'd like to sign up, it's amazing.
This is the one we made lastweek in our Full Moon course.
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So I facilitate and walk the classthrough an emotional process.
We go through a meditation todiscover what is the age of decision
that we're working with today.
Um, we work through heavy emotionsthat might have happened at that age.
And so I will say, okay, identifywhat fear your inner child is having.
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What would the fear be about?
And then we're going to paint it outon our canvas as a color and a shape.
So we are not trying to make a picture.
This isn't like your wine and paintnight thing where someone paints a
beautiful picture and you follow alongand then everybody gets to go home with
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a carbon copy of the exact same picture.
And I think those are great by the way.
I'm not making fun of them.
I've done some paint nights and Iactually learned quite a lot about
some techniques I didn't know.
So I'm all for a good datenight, good ladies night out.
glass of wine orchampagne and paint night.
But this class is not going to give youa, just a beautiful image to take home.
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This class is going to give you apainting specifically of your struggle
and replace it with positive energy.
So this is one that I started out with.
Um, this is one I did for myself.
When I started the painting, I wasPainting out fear as the screen triangle.
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I was painting out, I, I am embarrassed.
Um, you know, these all representheavy energies in blue and purple
and orange and, and in the shapesthat I felt that they needed to be.
So we spend a little time on thisand then we journal, uh, And we go
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through an entire cycle of healing,just like the Avalonian Cycles of
Healing in Jenna Tendry's book.
Um, it's the same process.
It's the same cycles.
We identify what is it thatour inner child needed and how
did they get that need met.
It's a powerful experience, but it'svery powerful because you are the
one guiding yourself through it.
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And You are having zero judgmentor expectation on what the
painting is going to look like.
I had no idea what thiswas going to look like.
This is what my paintingended up looking like.
I have been doing this for twoyears, every month, um, with
different groups of people, and Ihave never seen two paintings that
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look anything like each other.
Everybody's painting andexperiences their own.
every single person who comesinto my class as an artist.
So we do this and then at theend to replace it we might
choose to turn it upside down.
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We might choose to draw with our sharpiemarkers over it and make it into a new
image that is the gift we are receivingat the end of our healing process.
We can take that home and paint over it.
This next painting I'm going toshow you, this started out as
a Healing Through Art painting.
Underneath it was all the shapes andcolors that I wanted to, uh, represent
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what I was feeling at the time.
And then after I did that, I started usingthat same canvas as a background for a
painting that I, was inspired to create.
So this is a famous photograph aboutthe Great Depression and I decided
to paint the woman in the, in thephotograph because it was meaningful
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to me at one point in my life.
And I used a lot of colors,
As I said before, it's not about havingthe skill to paint something like that.
That's something I decided to do with it.
But I want people to engage with artand creativity in a way that heals.
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When I was a kid, I wastaking, um, piano lessons.
And it was kind of, I was talked intoit, like, lots of kids take piano
lessons, you should take piano lessons.
And I struggled so much because Ididn't have a lot of self confidence
and I was very hard on myself.
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And honestly, making mistakes in asong as I'm trying to play the song as
perfectly as I can was too much for me.
I got into self harm andjust really low self esteem.
Piano didn't cause that.
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It was a,
what's the word?
It was a catalyst for thatto act out in my life.
And so I regret that it happenedthat way, but I didn't have
a teacher telling me that themistakes are part of the learning.
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I thought I should be better at this.
I should be able to playthis song without mistakes.
And I would play the songs overand over, but I would get to the
mistake and I would stop playing.
I would get mad, frustrated, angry,and I would start the song over.
As an adult, I talked to another pianoteacher who's very good at her job and she
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said, Oh, I, I always teach my studentsnot to stop when they make a mistake.
I teach them to keep going, toplay through the mistakes, make the
mistakes and just keep playing anyway.
I cannot even begin to tell youhow that understanding, that way of
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seeing it, healed a part of my innerchild to know that it could have been
different and I could have seen myselfas a piano player, someone who is
good at piano, if I had kept going.
I thought, I understand howto make mistakes in art.
I know how to draw something wrongand then make something out of that.
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So I preferred art lessons andI, and I went that route instead.
I convinced my parentsthat piano was not for me.
But I think that in every creativeway that we can engage creatively
with something that allows us to workthrough those parts that are triggering.
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And I teach my studentsthat colors are energy.
You can move that energy out of thebody through the paint and through the
colors that you choose to paint out.
And it should feel good.
It shouldn't feel frustrating.
It shouldn't feel, um,triggering after a while.
Um, you should be able to look at theartwork that you've created and say, Well,
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that turned out different than I thought.
Or That turned out exactly like I thought.
Or, I'm an artist because I do art.
It doesn't have to be good, andit doesn't have to be anyone
else's standards of good.
It just has to be art, and if Icreate it, that makes me an artist.
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So when people say to me, oh, I'mnot an artist, it's very difficult
for me not to react with, why doyou think that about yourself?
When did you come to that decision?
And is there anything thatwe can do about that now?
Because I think there is.
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Um, I also love to engage with mystudents and talking about authenticity,
that when a painting is showing up ora drawing is showing up authentically,
when you are in your most authenticstate of mind and being, there is a
way to tell if you are engaging inthat authenticity or if you are not.
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And I like to say that everythingstarts with the letter C. If you
know that you are in your mostauthentic self, you will be calm.
You will be connected.
Now that could be connected to sourceor, or earth or creative energy.
That's what connected means.
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You are curious.
So this is the opposite of judgment.
I'm not going to say that's wrong,that's bad, I'm not good at this.
You know, the devil on your shoulder whois telling you you're not good at it.
That's where the devil cardcomes into our episode today.
I'm not good at this.
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I don't know what I'm doing.
Everyone else is better than me.
All that.
If you are not engaging in judgment,you have Curiosity instead.
I am curious what willhappen if I do this.
I'm curious why you chose to do that way.
I am curious, not judgmental.
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You are compassionate.
Compassionate.
Oh my gosh, this is a big one.
You have to be compassionate.
Compassionate towards yourself and others.
If someone else tells you your art isterrible or that you're no good at it.
I didn't know that was a dog.
That didn't look anything like a dog.
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Have compassion for them becausethey may not understand what art
is and how to engage with it.
Have compassion for yourself.
In moments when you feel likeI'm creating something and it's
not going well, it's not working.
It's, I made a mistake.
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I put the wrong color in the wrong places.
I drew it too big.
I drew it too small, whatever it is.
That voice inside thatsays, I'm no good at this.
I'm not an artist.
Compassion for yourself, compassionfor people that would judge
you and say, You know what?
Maybe my picture doesn't look like a dogand she doesn't think it looks like a dog.
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But I'm also not going to be done with it.
I'm going to keep creating.
And that's the other C word.
Creation.
Creative.
When you are in a creative mode,you are in your authentic self.
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Hello, welcome back.
We were discussing the,
the Cs of how to tell if you arein your most authentic state.
And I want to just circle backaround because to me, this is sort
of the, the comparison or differencebetween engaging with spirituality
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in religion versus intuition.
Because when we are Using creativethings like our creativity in art
or other modalities, I feel that weare moving into a space where we're
trusting our own body, our own mind,our own connection, versus relying on
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someone else to tell us what is right.
right or wrong, if that makes sense.
Um, and this is not to rag on anyonewho is religious or who subscribes to
a religious organization, but I thinkthat it is highly suggested for you
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to be most connected and authenticfor yourself is to trust yourself.
Trust that you know what's bestfor you and that you are expressing
yourself in the way that is most truefor you and stepping into a place of
sovereignty where you are the authorityin your own spiritual connection.
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That makes sense.
So I understand, and I've talkedabout this on other podcasts before,
where we talked about paganism versusreligious spiritual experience.
But the important thing to remember withthat is that no matter which way that
you engage with what you see as yourhigher power or as guidance for your
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life, it's really important that Youfeel that it is authentic to you, that
you are in a growth mindset and thatyou are feeling that You came to these
decisions because you asked questions,because you had curiosity, because when
something did not feel aligned withyou, you were able to question that.
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And sometimes with a religious experience,when it comes to that sort of interaction
with spirituality, a lot of timesyou are told not to question it, but
to act on someone else's authority.
And that's kind of why art isa perfect, uh, A perfect What
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is the word I'm looking for?
I keep trying to think of it.
The perfect
vehicle?
That kind of fits.
Vehicle for which you can driveyour own finding yourself, right?
Your art is your own.
It's personal, right?
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And there can be critics and therecan be art experts who tell you that
your art is not aesthetic, that it'snot correct, or that you don't have
the correct technique and skill.
But they said all of those thingsabout Vincent van Gogh, and he,
and it turns out he's one of thegreatest painters of all time.
That's because he didn't paintbased on what was supposed to be.
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And what, um, techniques and skill thatthey deemed were good and talented at
that place and time in Paris, France.
At that time?
No, he painted what he felt.
He painted what the worldlooked like from his eyes.
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through the lens of his painand his appreciation for beauty.
And I think that's really powerful.
All right.
So in finishing up, I just want to showyou how this aligns with our, uh, Prism
Healing's, Healing Through Art course.
Um, when I started to adapt theintegrative processing technique into
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an art course, I, as I said before,I was already teaching art classes.
And so it was a really smoothtransition to be able to say, Emotional
healing, the type of emotionalhealing I do with people, requires
them to identify what their feelingslook like or feel like in a color.
Then it only makes sense to adapt thatinto a painting class where with different
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mediums we can engage with watercolor andacrylic and watercolor pencil and I've
done crayons, um, many different, manydifferent mediums of art but that you
can express the feelings through paintingthem out and moving energy from the body
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and from your past experiences out of thebody through expression, art expression.
So I did take the integratedprocessing technique, which I do
one on one as a session, and Iadapted it into a full moon course.
And what that looks likeis we do a healing through
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art, It's a two hour class.
Um, the same group of peoplefor six months get to go
through the course together.
Each month has a different theme basedon the Mythic Moons of Avalon and some
mythic portion that goes along with that.
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We engage with the storytelling andwe Um, ask ourselves and reflect on
certain things that are coming up for us.
So from the dark moon to the full moon,we're becoming aware of what shadow
parts we need to address and what'scoming up for us in that particular
time, in that astrological time period.
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And then we get to identifywhat is ready to be released.
What do we want torelease at the full moon?
And with that, as a guide, What Itypically do with a session is I
will muscle test an age of decision.
What age is needing to releasesomething from the body, from the,
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from the ages that we've been?
What negative belief patterns?
What heavy emotions?
And so when I muscle test that,that age in a one on one session.
I will engage with a meditation in a groupsession so that everybody gets to identify
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and pull forward an age they would liketo work with in that class that day.
And then I will guide.
the class through an entire healing cycle.
So from the dissension stage into theconfrontation stage, when we confront
our shadows, all the way throughemergence, and then integration with
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our left and our right brain, our body,mind, and spirit, we get to have a
full immersive experience with that.
And We get to support each other in asmall group setting so that everybody in
that group gets to enhance their healingexperience because everybody in the
group oftentimes has similar experiences.
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I've even done those sessions whereit turns out without talking to each
other about it, Every single person,almost every single person in the
entire group is working at the same age.
It's kind of hilarious and coincidental,but those are not synchronicities
that happen for no reason.
Everybody's working on somethingthat, uh, It feels like we
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are all working on together.
So I did have the entire class, six peopleis the entire class, and everybody was
working at age seven at the same time.
And so that was really powerful.
So we got to share our experiencesand even enhance the healing
with the shared experience.
And then, of course, at the end ofthe class, we receive a gift and we
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age up, and we make sure that ourpainting, what has expressed our
feelings and emotions for that time,is also a gift that we receive back.
Releasing and clearing all of thenegative energy and replacing it with
positive energy and new belief systemsand patterns that will serve us as we age.
better and meet our needs better.
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It is an incredible workshop.
So if you live locally and youwould like to try this workshop
that I have, uh, going on, it'sgoing to start again in April.
So it will go every month right before,during or Immediately after the full
moon is how I've set up the classes.
So it will be within the few days of thefull moon or before the full moon so that
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you're getting ready for the release.
And I also have a group me groupduring the class as we're going along.
that gets to talk about thingstogether in a, in a very
intimate and supportive setting.
So everyone in the class will getan opportunity to be a part of that
groupme, and then each week I postreflection questions, journal questions,
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discussion questions that have todo with the phase of the moon each
week, taking us through the cycles ofhealing throughout the entire month,
as well as that same cycle that happensin the two hours we are in class.
So larger cycles and smaller cycles,because that's what healing is.
It's all about these cycles andfollowing the flow of those cycles
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of our bodies and learning howto integrate them into our lives.
So if that sounds like something you'd beinterested in, remember when I confront
you about these healing through artclasses that I teach, just know that I
am not asking you to join an art class.
I am asking you to engagewith art as a healing.
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session as a healing opportunity.
So that is what I haveoffered coming up in April.
Um, you can check out that on my website.
We'll be on www.
prism healing.
com is where I will haveall of my upcoming events.
I have a my body, mydance party coming up.
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I am just releasing tickets.
today, the day I'm recording this,not the day I'm releasing it.
So by the time this isreleased, it will already be up.
So go check that out.
We have a limitedtickets that we can sell.
It's going to be a pretty fun and amazing,but also kind of small dance party.
So only 80 tickets will be sold.
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And that sounds like alot, but it's kind of.
you know, kind of smallfor a dance party, I guess.
So you can check that out on my websitethat will be available to purchase.
So if you are local and you would liketo engage with some of those things that
I have going on, if you are not local,I do have a couple of online classes
that I'll be releasing on my website.
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So stay tuned for my rituals andspells class coming up and an online
altars, creating sacred spacesclass that you can take over Zoom.
They will be online so anyone fromanywhere in the world can hop on.
And those will not at this momentin time be recorded and released.
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So you will want to be on theclass live to get in on that.
And it's only 10.
So very affordable for anyonewho would like to join us.
So you can check those out.
And if you want to follow me toget Reminders about those events,
you can follow me at on Instagramat Prism underscore Healing.
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I am on TikTok at PrismHealing, and I am on Facebook at
Courtney Pearls Prism Healing.
So find me in all of those places,and for my podcast, do not forget to
like, subscribe, follow, and share anyepisodes that are meaningful to you.
If you happen to pop on any of my socialmedia, Please send me a private message
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letting me know that you heard aboutme from the podcast, because I may have
something extra special for you if you do.
So message me.
I would love to engage with myaudience and see you on there.
And for now, until next time, gomake magic, witches and wizards.
Thank you so much to my network.
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Just Blane, my producer, Ride the WaveMedia, who puts out this podcast and is
a fantastic podcast network with manyamazing shows you should check out, as
well as offering podcasting to anyone whois wanting to start their own podcast.
Please reach out to Ride the Wave Media.
Thank you so much.
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And I would like a special thankyou to Sarah Albert at Sunshine
Community who does a lot of managingprojects and supporting community.
So a special shout out and thankyou to the Daybreak Network which
I am a part of and have beenvery blessed and grateful for.
Thank you so much Daybreak Communityand I will see you next time.
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Go make magic witches and wizards!
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