COPE Creative Outlet Positive Energy

10/16/2025

10/04/2025

Food, music, and plenty of sun!! Stop by and have some fun! We are at Jim Dietrich Park in Muhlenberg set-up at Guts & Glory. 11am to 3pm

10/03/2025

Happening this Saturday, October 4, 2025. I hope to see you there, and as always greatly appreciate if you would share! 💜❤️

✨ Vendor Spotlight: COPE Creative Outlet Positive Energy ✨

🎨 A visionary of holistic health, COPE transforms trauma recovery through the power of Art. At the 12th annual Guts and Glory Digestive and Wellness Expo 2025, you’ll find a safe, inspiring space for creativity to become a path towards healing.

🌱 This research based educational wellness program defines trauma, loss and stress and their impact on the mind, body, and spirit. Through art therapy and self-care concepts, COPE addresses the root cause of unhealthy ways of coping and guides participants towards more empowering ways to cope.

🖌️ The owner, Dawnita Smith, is an artist, art therapist and educator who believes that art therapy helps people gain awareness and insight, which helps promote social, physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual growth. Art therapy provides a way for both children and adult survivors who have experienced trauma to cope, mend and transform their trauma. Creating art gives a visual way to track and assess the progress that has been made over time.

🎭 Stop by their booth to experience how guided artistic expression can unlock emotional resilience and inner peace through live art therapy demos. Enjoy interactive workshops designed to help you reconnect with your story, strength, and self-worth, and meet the therapists yourself to see how COPE supports trauma survivors with compassion, clinical insight and creative empowerment.

09/13/2025

• JOYful Insight • Strength grows in the moments you think you can’t go on, but you keep going anyway. ~unknown
..when the world seems chaotic and dark, may we find an abundance of strength, resilience, grace and support to carry us through any challenges before us!

Sherri 🧡🍂🧡 Incredible JOY

09/12/2025

✨ Vendor Spotlight: COPE Creative Outlet Positive Energy ✨

🎨 A visionary of holistic health, COPE transforms trauma recovery through the power of Art. At the 12th annual Guts and Glory Digestive and Wellness Expo 2025, you’ll find a safe, inspiring space for creativity to become a path towards healing.

🌱 This research based educational wellness program defines trauma, loss and stress and their impact on the mind, body, and spirit. Through art therapy and self-care concepts, COPE addresses the root cause of unhealthy ways of coping and guides participants towards more empowering ways to cope.

🖌️ The owner, Dawnita Smith, is an artist, art therapist and educator who believes that art therapy helps people gain awareness and insight, which helps promote social, physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual growth. Art therapy provides a way for both children and adult survivors who have experienced trauma to cope, mend and transform their trauma. Creating art gives a visual way to track and assess the progress that has been made over time.

🎭 Stop by their booth to experience how guided artistic expression can unlock emotional resilience and inner peace through live art therapy demos. Enjoy interactive workshops designed to help you reconnect with your story, strength, and self-worth, and meet the therapists yourself to see how COPE supports trauma survivors with compassion, clinical insight and creative empowerment.

09/12/2025

Let the past go. You did the best you could at the time with the understanding, awareness and knowledge that you had.
Now you are growing and changing, and will live life differently.

09/02/2025

I visit places in nature
To escape the noise and rush
Because there, I find a slower pace,
A gentle kind of hush.

The soft babble of a brook,
The stillness of a serene lake,
In these I can reflect and linger,
as I enjoy a well earned break.

The whispering leaves in trees
The songs of birds in flight,
Each moment wrapped in solace,
A sanctuary of life and light.

Here my steps get slower
As I feel the earth beneath my feet,
the grounding brings me balance,
the green land is my retreat.

Within these beautiful moments
I can feel the earth's embrace,
right here in the heart of nature,
Is my happy 'go to' place ..

🖋️C.E. Coombes 🎨 Lucy Almey Bird Art

Serendipity Corner 🌿

07/20/2025

People-pleasing isn’t a flaw in your personality—it’s a pattern your nervous system learned to stay safe.

When safety depended on keeping others happy, fawning became a strategy for survival. These responses often stem from early attachment wounds, conditional love, or disorganised nervous system states where saying “no” didn’t feel like an option.

You can’t talk yourself out of a biological reflex. What you can do is understand it, meet it with compassion, and slowly create the conditions for something else to be possible.

Healing isn’t about willpower—it’s about safety. And safety takes time.

06/24/2025

06/24/2025

When we feel out of control, we try to regain homeostasis (or balance) by making sense of the experience.

One common way to make sense of the experience (and regulate our nervous system) is by finding someone to blame.

Often this will be our partner, parent or someone close to us.

It takes a lot of courage and self awareness to catch this and take responsibility for our feelings.

“I realize I was blaming you for something, when it was my own feelings of helplessness that were making me feel bad. I’m sorry.”