Express Your Heart - Expressive Arts for the Heart and Soul

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Express Your Heart - Expressive Arts for the Heart and Soul

Expressive arts therapy | facilitation | coaching - (groups & individuals) - reclaim Self worth & Self love. Connect to your Inner Wise One. I know it well.

Strength-based approach. I help humans, especially women, transform their lives by helping them remove the barriers that keep them stuck and small in their life, open paths of permission for their authentic self to show up in their life, and rekindle their joy, playfulness and love of life! Step up into your truth and show up for yourself, your loved ones and Mother Earth who direly needs us to wa

ke up and show up consciously and compassionately.

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The unique essence and expression of you is your gift to the world, and it is so direly needed right now! Are you ready to reclaim it and shine your soul’s unique brilliance into the world? When you tap into your creative energy, life flows, life is vibrant, it is full of passion and joy, and deep wisdom and understanding. I want that for you, and for all beings.

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Hello, my name is Johanne, and I’m here to offer you a safe container to help you heal your heart and reclaim the unique vibrant creative expression of you. Through deep empathetic and compassionate space holding and the powerful medicine of the expressive arts (blends multiple art forms to express what's alive in you ~ because "expression is transformation"), I will walk with you through the dark night and into the vibrant, creative, joyful and playful light of you.

~NO ARTS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY~
(it’s about the process not the product, the “feels”, the moment to moment experiencing, the soul seeking uncensored expression)

If this speaks to you, reach out to me. I would be honoured to accompany and support you on your path back home to the exquisite beauty inside of you, gently and with deep love and compassion for the pain you are experiencing. I can hold it with you. You don’t need to hold it alone any longer. (ps, if you're a woman, join my free facebook community for women who crave a more vibrant and creative life: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4785390514862417

05/31/2025

I love it when my spontaneous morning mark making practice gives me exactly the medicine I need at that moment… in the this case, to remember that not all my thoughts are worth my attention; and to choose wisely the thoughts I do focus my energy and attention on because thoughts create reality.

What thoughts will you choose to lean into today? And which ones will you choose to let go?

Choose wisely ♥️ your reality depends on that important choice!

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01/24/2025

Orienting is a powerful practice, an instant way to get the nervous system to calm down (come back to a ventral vagal state of safety and connection). Orienting signals the nervous system that we’re safe.

Using your art practice as a way to orient can be a great way to start the day in a state of calm and presence, and perhaps even gratitude.

Next time you feel unsettled and cannot figure out why, take a moment to orient to your space - notice the colours, the shapes, and anything else that is there, in the “here and now” to remind yourself that you are not under threat. Your body is safe.

Take a moment to paint or draw something that speaks of beauty to you in your environment.

I am so grateful this is the view from my window.

Ps If you are in real danger, however, seek immediate shelter and help.

With warmth and love ❤️

12/25/2024

To all of you for whom the holiday season is not a joyful experience, this is for you.

Stay kind to yourself. This too shall pass. ❤️✨

11/03/2024

It’s been a while since I’ve been active here… sitting on the edge of the growing season’s ending (I live on an organic community farm), I find myself making a return to the inner world. Not that I’d left it, but I spent more time feet in soil, heart out in the “in-person” open rather than within these cyber walls.

This was my first season at the farm full time. It was intense. In a good way. And I’m grateful to have more time now to return to my art with more depth.

This faceless woman came to me with her companion the owl this morning as I sat with some angst about my future. She visited me to remind me to be patient, to ground and be grateful and to revisit my questions from that place. Revisit my body and heart. Trust. Return to trust. I know the way. Remember my Self. “Remember and root. Then flow, like the cloak I adorn, will ever your being to the next right bend on your path.”

Sharing this in case, you too, in this season of change need to be reminded to re-centre and ground before answering big questions. And perhaps consider revisiting the question too once you have…

06/25/2024

Art is the language of the Soul.

If you wish to hear your soul, create, move, write, sing, draw, "de-center" from your ordinary consciousness, let yourself be immersed in the creative process, and watch the magic unfold.

Your magic.

02/16/2024

Sometimes the best remedy for a heart ache and emotional upheaval is quality time with your inner child ♥️✨

May we all find the love within that brings us to that sense of peace and calm that we all crave in these tumultuous times.

01/08/2024

Every morning, my visual journal welcomes in what’s alive in me… like Rumi’s poem “The Guest House”, sometimes it’s joy, other times it’s a depression, sorrow, grief, a storm sweeping my inner house clean ‘for some new delight’…

This morning, it’s sorrow…

I let it in…

I allow it to move me…

I connect deeply to its needs, thoughts, body sensations and allow it all to exist…with deep empathy and compassion for this part of me that suffers deeply right now.

And then I connect to the one within that knows, that is anchored into the Earth’s wisdom and love, in the deep knowing of life and death, and from this place I respond. I co-regulate. Sometimes I move, sometimes I respond with another image, sometimes I meditate…

This morning, I responded to the part that suffers with a love letter.

We’re going to be okay. I love you sweetheart. I’ve got you.

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http://www.expressyourheart.com/

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