Community and Connection
Creativity thrives in connection. This category highlights the ways art builds relationships, fosters healing communities, and creates shared spaces of transformation.
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The Haunting Is The Healing: Where Trauma Meets The Unseen
The world that hurt you has no language for the medicine that arrives in the aftermath. The medicine that often looks like a ghost, an…
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The Price of Disappearing
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, ed. 12 Invisibility Has a Cost Sometimes invisibility is survival. You learn to dim your edges so you can keep breathing.…
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Let Death Be Death. Stop Dragging It Forward.
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 11 Let Death Be Death Fall has arrived. Things are dying. That is not poetry. It is biology. Leaves brown…
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Hello from the Studio
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 10 My Ink-Blue, Bony Parts This past month has been all bones and blueprints. I’ve been building the hidden systems that…
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Grounded in the Rockets’ Red Glare
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, ed. 9 When the sky starts showing off, some nervous systems brace. Fourth of July can be beautiful if your body reads…
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This One Starts in the Dark
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, edition 8 Some things only reveal themselves after they are cut open. A stone can look ordinary until the saw finds…
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Unbind Your Inner Empress
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 7 In This Edition Let Your Inner Empress Enter Your Flow The Empress, a character of the tarot, represents the archetype…
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Self-Care That’s Pure Grit, Not Glitter
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 6 Hello Seeker, An Epsom salt bath can loosen the body for an hour. Then the old ache creeps back in,…
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The Wounded Healer: Embracing Your Story Through Creativity
The Wounded Healer’s Lesson The archetype of the wounded healer teaches us that our deepest pain can also become a powerful gift—the ability to guide…
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Living in Bipolar Disorder and the Grayness of Mental Illness
March 30 is World Bipolar Day, a time to raise awareness and break the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder. But for many of us living with…
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Spring Toward Renewal and Balance
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Edition 5 A Spring of Renewal and Balance March is a threshold with mud on its boots. The ground has not…
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Confidence Is Built in the Dark
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 4 Cultivating Confidence and Your Inner Light Good evening, Seeker. February is a strange little threshold. Here in Indiana, the cold…