January 2026

Happy New Year! It's the first month of what promises to be an amazing year. What are your aspirations? Goals? Inspirations? I am not one for resolutions, but I feel a wave fresh intentions, and from a newer, more relieved place within myself.

These last five years, I struggled with chronic pain that left me foggy, inflamed, sore, and confused, and with that, my imagination became overwhelmed with doctor appointments, physical therapy, and more doctor appointments. As hard as it felt to do so, I kept going and trusted my intuition. And, the help kept revealing itself to a clearer path.

This past August, I had a venogram done for my pelvic veins and ended up with two stents in my left illiac vein, which was documented as 90% compressed. This pain had been circling in my body--and the blood pooling-- for those many years, with almost 400 appointments and numerous doctors, physical therapists, myofasical and massage therapists, acupuncturists, and Ayurvedic practitioners, all to alleviate what turned out to be a lack of blood flow in my lower body. The stents changed the whole composition of my body systems in one day in a same-day-go-home procedure.

Our bodies and our imaginations. What beautiful things to be blessed with in our daily lives. Humbleness, I feel, is a part of the creative journey in that we have so much power in what we choose to do with our creativity.

And this is what I think creativity does for us during any stage of our artistic ventures. It reminds us to be present and bear witness to our lives, to show what maybe others don't like talking about, or what is perceived as negative, because, dangit, the pain is real, and it moves through. And the healing becomes even more real. It becomes creation.

So, for this year, my intentions are to trust in the strengthening of my body and the flow of my projects and teaching to help those realize their ideas and to nurture mine. What kind of healing journey are you on? What do you want to give back to the world? No matter where you are at, your creativity is calling. Trust it!