I've been on a healing journey for a while, and art is my favorite way to heal.

It gives me space to think, and the painting styles I work in were intuitively created for somatic healing. I dance, sing, finger paint and use large, flowing, sweeping movements to process things.

But for a couple of terrible years, I couldn't make art. Grief over multiple things shut me down.

Once I finally healed enough, I got the brushes back out again. As I got back to making art, I realized it is equally important for me to focus on the process of making the art as well as making it beautiful - and why that was what was healing.