Healing Trauma Through the Creative Arts

Primal Healing and Art • Writing Like A Woman

Intuitive Art, Writing and Collage

Hello, I’m Marta. 

I support women in recovery from trauma who desire to heal through the creative arts so that they can free themselves from what holds them back, and confidently express their emotions, unique experiences, and creative voices.

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Unlock your creativity and heal through intuitive writing, visual art, and dreams.

If you long to write, paint, feel deeply, and tell your story but are terrified of exposing yourself and being vulnerable, you are not alone.

Brain research shows that the intellect alone cannot heal trauma. True healing requires engaging the right brain in non-linear intuition. embodied approaches and understanding the long-term effect of family and generational trauma patterns and myths.

To heal, you need to feel.

“You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement.  You may be perfect playing the piano and not be creative; you may play the piano brilliantly and not be a musician.  You may be able to handle color, put paint on canvas, and, most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. We have techniques.. how to put up a house, build a bridge, and educate our children through a system. We have learned all these techniques, but our hearts and minds are empty.

Creativeness is not found through technique. If you have something to say, you create your own style, but when you have nothing to say, even if you have a beautiful style, what you write is only the traditional routine; a repetition of new words of the same old thing. When we have lost the song, we pursue the singer.  We learn the song's technique from the singer, but there is no song. And I say the song is essential; the joy of singing is essential. The technique can be built up from nothing when the joy is there. You will invent your own technique. You won’t have to study elocution or style. When you have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is the art.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Here is how we can work together.

Healing Long-Term Effects of Childhood Abuse

  • Inner child work delves deep into emotional depths where the pain is frozen

  • Healing shame and betrayal from unhealed sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.

  • Recovering connection and safety when trust is broken with adults

Recovery from Addiction, Chronic Illness, and Co-Dependency

  • Additional approaches to complement 12-step programs.

  • Addressing depression, anxiety, and resistance as symptoms of unexpressed fear, heartbreak, and grief

  • Diving into shadow personalities, co-dependency, addiction (what you deny and scares you the most)

  • How do embrace the victim child’s story without shame or blame

Mending the wounded soul-spirituality experienced through creativity, nature, and dreams

  • Exploration of multigenerational family patterns and family history

  • Navigating life-changing events (death, divorce, illness) to move forward. Opening to creative callings, nature, delving into dream images through intuitive storytelling and art to heal and integrate your whole self

Emotional intimacy and communication for couples

  • For committed relationships where trust and honesty have been broken.

  • Understanding how dysfunctional family and generational patterns leak onto the other (blame and shame)

  • Practicing emotional intimacy skills as the foundation of trust and empathy.

  • Creative expression, deep listening, and understanding unconscious dynamics to overcome defensive patterns that keep you separate instead of allies

For Writers and artists who desire to live a creative life

But…

  • Are terrified of emotional vulnerability and exposing family secrets

  •  Societal and family guilt“ You can’t make money as an artist”  “Follow the family business.” “My mother never became an artist. I don’t want to hurt her by being an artist.”

  • Fear of abandonment of friends and family if you don’t “fit in.”

Women ready to excavate with their true selves  

  • For women ready to dive into the unknown of unchartered emotions and change their lives

  • Women hungry for self-discovery, renewal, truth-telling to feel safe in their bodies

  • Are ready to carve their own path of creativity, emotional and spiritual expression, and break from the past

  • Need healing from divorce, childhood abuse, abandonment, addiction, neglect, trauma, and chronic illness through personal storytelling, intuitive art, and journaling

My programs and sessions are not yet for women who

  • Are experiencing suicidal ideation

  • Are struggling to function in their daily lives and their essential self-care needs

  • Actively in their addiction

If these are your current experiences, contact a specialist for support.

“To live the life you want to live, you need to let go of the life you’re living”

— Carl Jung

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