Dance is a powerful example of the benefit of journaling. Professional dancers explore the depths of the body through a practice of connecting with the mind, proving that journaling is not just taking notes on your thoughts, it’s igniting your authentic self.

Corita Kent was a Los Angeles-based printmaking artist known for teaching self-discovery through art. She encouraged students to find meaning in creativity, blending personal expression with social connection. Learning from Corita is like a mix of art, literature, and energy therapy, inspiring self-reflection, creativity, and spiritual growth.

My nail care routine has evolved to focus on chemical-free products and nourishing oils that keep my nails healthy and strong. By combining this mindful approach with a fun lit and tech therapy ritual, I’ve created a routine that nurtures both my nails and well-being.

Empaths, like Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation, are highly sensitive to the emotions of others. While she uses this ability to help the crew, she also has to protect herself from being overwhelmed. Practices like mindfulness and self-compassion can help empaths stay balanced and connected without getting lost in emotions.

Living with Crohn’s disease is challenging because it’s an invisible illness that affects me physically and emotionally, making dating difficult.  However, beauty, meditation, and lit therapy have helped me nurture my inner beauty and outer beauty, and communicate more openly, which I believe will lead to a stronger and more meaningful relationship.

Peace Class is a free online meeting via Zoom, learning about many different aspects of peace. It dives into meditations, visualizations, peacemakers and trailblazers. Participation is optional, there’s no homework or prerequisite, it’s simply a talk on the many easy ways to a life full of peace.

Exploring Witchy Symbols provides insights into the connections between art, energy, and meditation. Rooted in astrology, numerology, and ancient practices, these symbols facilitate connections with diverse cultural traditions while expanding your awareness of the universe.

Your dream future self is more plausible than you think. With a simple prompt, chatGPT can write a very descriptive day and what that might look like. Set aside some alone time to really tune into your big dreams, true desires, and best version of yourself. Be prepared to see the results in seconds and meditate on the beauty of the future.

Healing from Crohn’s disease brings me back to my days of traveling. With the freedom of wellness, I feel inspired to make destination goals and Hamburg, Germany is the first on the list. A quick research this weekend opened up several spas and float centers that I would like to relax in.

Food Journals can help with many aspects of health and wellness. By tracking meals, they can help build a safe meal plan, show what foods are triggering, and track stomach pain, gas, and bowel movements. This will empower anyone to enjoy eating for life.

Culture and Communication Profiles help us understand how the ways we were raise have affected the way others perceived us, how we understand ourselves, and how we communicate when under stress. These worksheets are a gentle step to a more advanced level of self understanding.

Creative Arts Therapies (CATs) are mental, physical, and emotional health specialties that integrate art, dance, music, theater, and poetry to foster authentic healing, enhance self-awareness, and provide multidimensional forms of communication. After meditation, progress to our personal truths may arise as well as emotions, memories, and traumas. CATs can help to heal those tough emotions as well as enrich our soul.

Cord Cutting is the meditation of detaching an emotional connection to a person, archetype, or habit. I have collected a few guided meditations structured on visualization to help process these energetic ties. This practice has left me feeling lighter, clearer, and happier with my relationships.

A New Moon Ritual is a time for self-reflection and setting goals. Since this is my first deliberate New Moon Ritual, I wanted to design a simple evening that reflected on the previous season and set effortless goals for the next. A New Moon Ritual is also a wonderful time to journal and appreciate the ending of a cycle and the beginning of a new one.

As a spa researcher, I read about 95% non-fiction which provides information about this reality. Fiction, on the other side of the library, is a multi-universe that uplifts a tbr (to be read) list to the soul level, bringing stories from different histories, cultures, povs, and vibes. Finding fiction tailored to you is an art form of its own. Making my tbr list and picking up a work of fiction, I immediately noticed a decrease in screen time and anxiety and an increase in a cozy soul.

Song of the Open Road extends an awareness of how beautiful the synchronicity of everyone and everything around us is. With scenes of our expanding universe, symbolism, concepts, and analogies, it ignites the feeling of freedom, wonder, direction, drive, and travel. Join me for an evening of lit therapy, float therapy, music therapy, and the song of the open road.

Learning a language opens opportunities for self expression and new cultures. It’s a Lit Therapy that expands my brain and builds my identity. Part of the fun is tailoring my learning style and tacking my progress. The process of creating a relaxing learning hobby enriches my life with mental, physical, and social benefits.

By holding onto the delicious and rich literature of our lives, memorizing poetry can reach another level of engagement, away from the familiar pattern of everyday speech. Memorizing poetry also forms our personality, strengthens neural plasticity, and integrates colorful language to better articulate ourselves.

Forks, WA
With a population of 3,828, Forks, Washington could use a regional airport but designed for its own pace. With a Wabi-Sabi Americana moodboard, I designed a simple warehouse frame and a curvy path for the drop-off experience. The final project is presented in a poem tour with allegorical characters discussing the interior architecture’s potential.

Seattle, WA
Founded in 1995, the Pongo Poetry Project started by helping distressed teens inside jails, homeless shelters, and psychiatric hospitals, to write about their feelings through tough experiences. Pongo has grown to help so many individuals and has cultivated a healing practice through the art of introspection and ongoing research about the therapeutic power of creative expression.