I Hear From Others, All the Time: "What if I'm not artistic?!?!"

Here’s what I want you to know:

You don’t have to be an artist.

You don’t have to know how to draw.

And you certainly don’t have to create something beautiful enough to hang on a wall.

Because sometimes, making art isn’t about creating something to impress someone else.

Sometimes, it’s about giving what you’re carrying, feeling and thinking somewhere to go.

I know this because I’ve lived it.

Art didn’t fix my life — but it helped me survive it.

When illness and chronic conditions began taking over not only my body, but my sense of who I was, art became a place where I could tell the truth.

I could paint what I couldn’t explain.

I could put colour around grief.

I could make marks when I didn’t have words.

And little by little, creativity helped me find pieces of myself that I thought I had lost.

That experience is at the heart of Make Art. Feel Better.

Today, I help women 40+ living with chronic illness and conditions, pain and grief use simple art and wellness practices to release some of what they carry, reclaim moments of joy, and return to themselves.

Not to become perfect.

Not to pretend everything is okay.

But to remember that you are still here. And there is still more of you here than your diagnosis, your pain, your grief, or what has happened to you.

So if you’ve ever thought, “But I’m not artistic…”

Come anyway.

Come tired.
Come hurting.
Come unsure.
Come exactly as you are.

There is room for you here. 💗

Make Art. Feel Better.

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