Disclaimer: This article mentions normal life anxiety and is not referring to clinical anxiety disorders. The information is not intended to treat any mental health conditions, and is just a summary of my knowledge of herbs that can help calm the regular stressors and anxieties of life. I don’t think it will come as a surprise to any of you that the world can be a stressful place. Between unhealed family dynamics, parenting stress (IYKYK), relationship complexities of all kin

My journey to the metaphysical was a transformative one to say the least. I've personally experienced many dark night of the soul type transformations. But this specific journey which began 4 and 1/2 years ago was one of the most powerful and completely life-changing. This likely had something to do with the impetus to this transformation, a severe concussion that my oldest daughter sustained. I had to sit by and watch her dark night of the soul at the age of 9 and it was agn

I have, many times in the past, told others that I have not one artistic bone in my body. At that time, I had a very black and white mindset about what an artist was. I knew that my drawings did not look like real life, and that was all I was going off of. In fact, I would always introduce my oldest daughter as the artist in the family. Even during my formal training I opted to get a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology because a Bachelor's of Art seemed too fluffy at the time

My intention with any mindfulness based art sessions is that your nervous system has time to chill out. The tasks are simple enough that you can let your thinking mind go and experience a flow state. The art tends to be more abstract, as not to compare your performance to anyone else's. You intuitively choose colors that make your heart happy, without a need to follow any art rules. Although I facilitate these sessions, you will have this knowledge to carry with you to use wh

Being The Intuitive Artologist means I get to bring ALL of me to my work with my clients. Psychology began to feel too limiting, despite there being a plethora of modalities to choose from. It took me a very long time to realize this, but now I see almost everything as an art form! For me in addition to physically creating art the incorporation of herbs, lifestyle, music, nature, gardening, energy medicine, and even the administration of psychological instruments is an art fo