Welcome
~ using art as a tool for healing ~
Creativity has been my life-line through a landscape of challenges.
Healing continues to be a central interest in my life.
This has led to my own recovery work and supporting personal transformation in others: incarcerated women and youth, breast cancer survivors, women recovering from domestic violence, at-risk teen girls in a therapeutic boarding school, people struggling with addiction and survivors of sexual abuse. It has also drawn me to work with Indigenous Rights and healing. You will see all these aspects of my life on this website. It is a mixture of all that I have been led to do.
A Heart Story contains 17 color reproductions of the 16 stages of healing my heart from loss. It shares the background story as well as the poems written for each stage of healing.
A Heart Story COLORING BOOK is an accompaniment to A Heart Story, containing 16 mages of the stages of healing the heart from loss. Each of the 16 heart images are created as line drawings to be colored in as the reader chooses. Each image has a poem from the author with space for the reader to write their expressions of healing.