Peaceful Painting Club

Peaceful Painting Club Welcome to the Center for Mindful Art & Writing, where creativity meets healing. She loves painting, writing, reading, traveling, music, and theatre.

The Peaceful Painting Club offers a unique blend of nature-inspired painting, sound healing, mindfulness, wellness practices, and The Artist’s Way cohorts in a supportive space to help you unwind, explore creativity, and prioritize your well-being. If you're navigating life's tougher paths like chronic illness, grief, or profound transitions, we're here to help you channel those experiences into a

rt and writing. Discover how our supportive community and expert-led workshops can empower you to let go of the "what ifs," embrace the moment, and find serenity and self-expression. The Center of Mindful Art and Writing is home to:
- Peaceful Painting Club
- Sunday Morning Writing Club
- In-Person Creative Retreats (Hawaii Fall 2024 is Sold Out)

Meet Our Founder

Katie Goodling, founder of the Center for Mindful Art & Writing, is an award-winning teacher whose personal journey through illness and loss fueled her passion for therapeutic creativity. After leaving a high-pressure marketing career due to health challenges, Katie found solace and strength at her art table. Her transformative experience with mindful art and writing now drives her to share these powerful tools with others facing similar struggles, helping them find healing and joy through creativity. Katie lives in Pennsylvania with her husband Kevin and beloved senior rescue dog, Mozzie.

I’m working on creating a new meditative botanical watercolor and ink process to share with you — here’s my work in prog...
04/01/2025

I’m working on creating a new meditative botanical watercolor and ink process to share with you — here’s my work in progress from last night. 🍃

It doesn’t matter what happens in life… we always have art. Go make something, you’ll feel better 🥰 I’m wishing you a cr...
03/31/2025

It doesn’t matter what happens in life… we always have art. Go make something, you’ll feel better 🥰 I’m wishing you a creative, calm week!

beaver pond x northern lights palettes
white acrylic
black pen
sketchbook

Painted in an intuitive watercolor & mixed media class as a demo. I love it because I didn’t think about what I was creating at all, I was too busy chatting away 😂👀

Calming Circles x The Gold Pen in Wind Down and Watercolor tonight followed by 90s Chill Creative Hour. Making marks to ...
03/20/2025

Calming Circles x The Gold Pen in Wind Down and Watercolor tonight followed by 90s Chill Creative Hour. Making marks to Sarah, Natalie, Tracy, Tori, Ani, Jewel, and more while watching the chat light up with nostalgia and joy. Art and music and community. 🎨🥰✨

What do a TV reporter, twirling fire, and building a creative business have in common? 🤔🔥🎨LOL. They're all "truths" from...
03/19/2025

What do a TV reporter, twirling fire, and building a creative business have in common? 🤔🔥🎨

LOL. They're all "truths" from the "Two Truths and a Lie" game we played last week in our March Cohort to get to know each other.

Whether it’s picking up a paintbrush for the first time in years, finally launching that creative side hustle, or just making time for you again—this program is changing lives and I can't wait to report back on this cohort in just a few months.

As you can see here, there are so many incredible unique humans as well as some MAJOR common threads even though we're spread out across North America.

Do you relate to any of these?

If you do, it might be time to dive into 12 glorious weeks of creative dabbling, community, and self-care and I can help :) Just ask me how - no robots here. Every DM goes to just me and I respond to all of my DMs

Whipped up a new peaceful painting potion last night and used it on black mixed media paper. The colors and textures alo...
03/14/2025

Whipped up a new peaceful painting potion last night and used it on black mixed media paper. The colors and textures along with a slight translucence make this combo so dreamy and lovely for meditative floral painting 🌺

Sound Healing Sunday! This weekend in the Peaceful Painting Club, we're continuing our adventure with sound healing an...
03/14/2025

Sound Healing Sunday! This weekend in the Peaceful Painting Club, we're continuing our adventure with sound healing and flowing wet-on-wet watercolor techniques with a live sound healer (aka my bestie Steph!) in the virtual room with us!

You'll see and hear the healing bowls live from my at-home art studio while exploring each chakra with watercolor, water, and positive affirmations. You'll leave this class feeling relaxed, inspired, and balanced, ready for the new week ahead. Plus you'll have a lovely abstract masterpiece to remember the experience.

🎁SURPRISE! We're opening up this session to ALL Peaceful Painting Club members: that means if you're in our painting membership, a current or future The Artist's Way cohort, or in our The Artist's Way Collective alumni membership, the Zoom link is dropping in your inbox tonight!

Who's excited? Who's coming? Who's wondering how my dog Mozzie is going to react to a sound healing session in the house? Come find out on Sunday at 2pm ET/11am PT.

Need a free trial? Let me know and I'll send you one so you can try this out!

When you start The Artist’s Way at rock bottom with no life plan... 🎢 😱 😭🤯🤭🫣Spoiler alert: It’s not always sunshine and ...
03/12/2025

When you start The Artist’s Way at rock bottom with no life plan... 🎢 😱 😭🤯🤭🫣

Spoiler alert: It’s not always sunshine and rainbows but it is 100% worth it.

In 2022, I hit rock bottom.
💥 Left my career of 10 years.
💥 Health issues, grief, a breakdown.
💥 No clue what was next.

But I picked up The Artist’s Way and started. Messy. Imperfect. Scared.

Fast forward to today?
➡️ Running a creative biz that I absolutely love
➡️ Working in a way that feels GOOD and aligned and authentic
➡️ just did my taxes and almost fell over! I’m On track to pass my old agency salary (but with purpose) in 2025 before I turn 40!

And now? I hear from so many of you — women+ in my Artist’s Way groups who are DONE with the corporate rat race (retiring, because of health, just over it, etc.) and dreaming of doing their own creative thing.

But here’s what I know: to actually get there, it takes deep resilience and self-trust. It’s not just about quitting a job and hoping for the best. This has absolutely been the hardest thing I have done in my entire life.

And that’s where The Artist’s Way tools saved me:
📝 Morning Pages to clear the mental clutter and get honest with myself.
🎨 Painting over pages to process and make space for new ideas.
🧭 Artist Dates to rediscover what brings me joy (and what I want to do).
❤️ And THE PEOPLE—lifelong friends & creative soulmates who get it.

But let’s be clear—this journey wasn’t linear.
❌ There were days I wanted to quit. A LOT OF THEM
❌ I got mean emails that nearly broke me
❌ I lost everything trying to stay afloat
❌ I had a mental health crisis

The difference when I did TAW for the first time? I had a roadmap. I had community. I had tools that gave me resilience when I would’ve normally retreated. It complemented my other tools so well.

So if you’re wondering if it’s too late to start over, or how to even begin leaving behind a career or life that’s draining you, I SEE YOU. Because I was you.

If you’re ready to take the first step, and aren’t sure where to start, let me know! you.

32,204 minutes -- that's how much time the Peaceful Painting Club community members spent creating together across the g...
03/05/2025

32,204 minutes -- that's how much time the Peaceful Painting Club community members spent creating together across the globe in February! There was one class that was a clear favorite for Art is an Act of Self-Love Month - our inspired painting class!

🎨Current Programs
- Peaceful Painting Club Mindful Painting Membership
- The Artist's Way Creative Cohort - January 2025 Cohort
- The Artist's Way Collective Alumni Membership

👋Upcoming Programs
- Peaceful Painting Club: March Mindful Art Madness Happening now! Free 7-day trial is available - ask me how!
- The Artist's Way 12-week Friday at Noon ET cohort starts Friday! One spot left. Get it at a discount - ask me how!
- The Artist's Way 12-Week Sunday at 1pm ET cohort starts 4/6 - 5 spots spoken for already, space is limited.

We would love to have you try out our incredible community - once folks join one program, they join them all, because our collective creative energy is magic in the PPC.

And you'll get to learn, create, grow, live your dreams, AND relax to my calming voice - what could be better?! ;)

Seriously though, this is my life's work, and I'd love to meet you in a virtual class soon. Let me know how I can help you get back to your creativity and self-care... we need it NOW more than ever.

You have to do the blobs to understand the blobs. Try them with a 7 day free trial, for a limited time. I’d love to see ...
03/04/2025

You have to do the blobs to understand the blobs. Try them with a 7 day free trial, for a limited time. I’d love to see you in a virtual painting class. You deserve relaxing me time!

Only art supplies that LOOK GOOD and FEEL GOOD need apply ;) And I am DROOLING over this Holbein Acrylic Gouache I recei...
03/04/2025

Only art supplies that LOOK GOOD and FEEL GOOD need apply ;) And I am DROOLING over this Holbein Acrylic Gouache I received as a gift from one of my Peaceful Painters!

The color, the texture, the layering, the mixing - I'm in love. Here are my first two abstract floral babies from three colors: white, magenta, and Prussian blue.

More to come as I learn this new medium.

Have you tried acrylic gouache or do you want to learn?

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Yesterday in our The Artist’s Way info session, I decided to pull out a PPC fave to demonstrate an Artist Date (a tool i...
03/04/2025

Yesterday in our The Artist’s Way info session, I decided to pull out a PPC fave to demonstrate an Artist Date (a tool in the program) with Calming Circles. If you’ve done Calming Circles, don’t you just love them? I could get lost in them all day long.

My next free info sesh in this Sunday 3/9. New students only. If you’re interested in learning more about me, the PPC, and most importantly the power of The Artist’s Way, drop a 📖 in the comment and I’ll send you the link asap. —Katie

We kicked off March Mindful Art Madness this morning in our Sketchbook Sunday painting membership class! Today we explor...
03/02/2025

We kicked off March Mindful Art Madness this morning in our Sketchbook Sunday painting membership class! Today we explored our community favorite “blob” technique along with acrylic paint, acrylic ink, and watercolor ink. I mixed all three together to create some soft, blurry sections on this painting. Class just ended so this is a work in progress!

Btw — Every class is uploaded onto our on-demand library for life, so there’s still time to join us and to start filling out your art supply bracket! 🎨

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