Art making helps us to process the tender things, and to love ourselves more deeply.

This isn’t just a felt experience. Check out the science below!

All experience levels welcome.

heartworks is for you if…

  • You know that the body keeps the score.

  • You want to process the stickier, tender, stagnant things.

  • You struggle to get out of your head and into your body.

  • You want to clear blocks around expression and creation.

  • You are moving through a difficult life transition.

  • You want to reclaim play and curiosity.

  • You want a somatic practice that compliments professional therapy.

  • You are looking for a deeper connection with yourself.

  • You want to incorporate ritual and infuse meaning into everyday life.

  • You are open to meditative moments during art-making.

  • You want to release perfectionism.

what are some of the benefits?

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On transcendence, healing, and art-making

  • “If the arts may then be said to be forms of representation of the inner experience of the artist, then spirituality is an intrinsic attribute of art and the art-making process...Both art-making and the viewing of art can give access to a silent, inner experience of the human mind and being.”

    Aldous, V. (2002). An exploration of the transcending experience in the art-making process.

  • “Many artists speak of the experience when the material (their art) shapes itself - in the common phrase, it 'takes over' - and tells them what to do next. The forming of the material seems to act as a conduit for some force larger than themselves. This kind of experience is often described as spiritual...There can be in painting moments of perceptual experience so intense and so joyous that one has to think why this should be so - and of the mystery of our being that can respond with such intensity to matter”

    Spate, V. (2001). 'Concerning the spiritual in art'. A sceptical Essay. Spirit and place, art in Australia 1861 -- 1996. Sydney: Museum of contemporary art

  • "This study of artist's and art educator's experiences have shown that art making can at times facilitate individual artists to progress in their sense of self, personal development and assist the development of natural and individual forms of spirituality. Also that art making and appreciation can lead on to many areas of creativity and can create a lingering memory of enjoyment and self-confidence. "

    Aldous, V. (2002). An exploration of the transcending experience in the art-making process.

  • “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

    Pablo Picasso

  • “The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.”

    Psychotherapist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  • "Expressive art therapy integrates all of the arts in a safe, non-judgmental setting to facilitate personal growth and healing. To use the arts expressively means going into our inner realms to discover feelings and to express them through visual art, movement, sound, writing or drama. This process fosters release, self-understanding, insight and awakens creativity and transpersonal states of consciousness."

    Natalie Rogers, PhD and Founder of Person Expressive Centered Arts

  • “Art speaks where words are unable to explain.”

    Pam Holland

  • “Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realising one’s sensations.”

    Paul Cézanne

  • “I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”

    Georgia O’Keeffe

About the Founder

Heather is an artist, therapist-in-training, and Therapeutic Art Coach. Heather has spent the last decade creating a process around creating as a meditative and spiritual act. By adopting a regular creative practice that responds and interacts with the somatic state, she created a conversation with her own feelings tied to C-PTSD, and difficult life transitions. This method that she introduces through Heartworks Club is a practice that increases presence, joy, and the ability to show up fully and authentically in everyday life.

It is from the comfort of your home, and a few art supplies that you can begin your practice.