Second Star Life is on Patreon! Come and join me on Patreon for extras and bonuses, fun and camaraderie. If you join the Rising Phoenixes tier, you will become a part of a wonderful membership group of people who are making art all year long. In 2024, this means creating a personal, art-journaling based yearly …
📺📺📺 DO YOU HAVE CERTAIN SHOWS OR MOVIES YOU WATCH WHEN YOU NEED TO FEEL BETTER? 📺📺📺 When I was trapped overseas by my abusive ex and I had years of waiting for my chance to put my case to the courts, the combination of working on paperwork for my case, looking after my small …
Anytime you sit down to practice your art you feel it, that sense of calm that is like a coming home. You just know it’s good for you…or is it? Is doing art just another way to check out of reality for a while? That kind of thinking can make it feel selfish to sit …
Hello amazing visionary! If you’ve always wanted to try art journaling and think it would be a great way to go deeper into understanding your own identity, this is your chance! This 5-day workshop is an introduction into what Second Star Life is all about. If you are thinking of doing a bigger Second Star …
Do you tell your story? It took me a long time to tell mine. It took a long time for me to even understand mine. Then there was the shame. Society teaches us certain things are the fault of the woman, the victim, the child, the poor person, the underdog. I think, in many ways, …
Oftentimes, when we have a lot on our plate, our art practice is the first thing to get relegated to the back burner. If you have to choose between washing the clothes and creating art, which do you choose? If you have to choose between tidying the living room and doing art, which do you …
You can look in while I work on a goddess that emerged from a ripped bit of cardboard. Beltane needs fire, so I had a little candle burning, and I also enjoyed an ochoko or two of sake from the region in which I used to live in Japan.
Abuse, trauma, and change have a major thing in common. They can all leave you with a loss of identity.
I’ve always been interested in identity. As a child, my family moved house every two years which left me with readjusting to a new environment and local culture over and over again. I became fascinated with how others did things and obsessed with the idea that there are many ways to live. On library day …
Are you an art therapist? I am not a qualified art therapist, counsellor, or psychologist and my art-based experiences are not a substitute for therapy. The things I teach in my coaching groups and workshops are things that have worked for me and helped me to identify weaknesses within my own healing that I needed …
