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This painting is still in progress, but I felt the urge to write a short but hopefully sweet post reflecting on where I’m at in the process.
Since posting the post “Victim no More” I have been asked if I need therapy, a guru, hypnosis… I appreciate the concern actually, all caring questions from caring friends. But it seems to me what I need to do is just to continue painting. When I’m painting the questions present themselves, the memories arise, the emotions resurface. And a visual language I have spent over 30 years developing helps me to see these memories, feel the emotions and begin to process answers to questions I have until now been too afraid to ask. It feels like a miracle. It is certainly a gift. I am incredibly grateful.
If you have a gift, all I can say is this: continue to exercise and develop it, even if you feel short on time and energy. Just a little when you have time is better than nothing. Some years I only had a few weeks out of the entire year to wholeheartedly attend to painting. I’m so glad I did. Nuture your gift, let it be important. The unique way your gift will reveal its meaning and purpose in your own life will someday be clear. Have faith.
You rock. Keep painting! We miss you; please visit Lake Superior soon! She misses you too.
Much love to you, Dawn. Much, much love*light*and laughter.
Thank you so much Liz! I hope to back up there soon, I sure miss the people and the place!
You are love, light and laughter dear lady!!!
Dawn, you are so inspiring! Thank you for sharing your words, I too am confronting my fears and I see how they have created my experiences especially concerning job. Your paintings are amazing visual gifts and equally important as the words that you type to describe the process you are going through. You help others by growing, you are helping me, thank you!
Jen
Hi Jen! I feel like there's a wave of healing going on all around us, and art (music, dreams, writing, all of these gifts) is the ocean beneath the wave! I just heard this today, I think it will resonate with you also:
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/4/3/b/43bada5207e5fa6f/The_Art_of_Healing_with_Dr._Bernie_Siegel.mp3?c_id=6536735&expiration=1395848687&hwt=a19c0f9639351efb942ec9ce7705c54a
This is a better link, includes text: http://www.artheals.org/projects/arts_healing_podcast.html