Creative Journaling- just the beginning

I have always loved to do all manner of what my mum calls “arty farty” things… particularly drawing, sewing, quilting, and scrap booking… really anything that I don’t have to think about, things that I can feel. Doing these things always relaxes me and it is one of the few I am really proud of, but showing my inner self to the world has always been very frightening to me, so I’d chosen not too do it….

After having my world crash down around me… or maybe rising up to see the destruction I allowed to happen all around me, becoming a single mother with 3 children, finishing my teaching degree and getting a contract in my dream job, and being so depressed I couldn’t walk out of my front door without having a mild panic attack… I have started to find my creativity again.

I met Anne-Maree Byrne at a workshop on Neuro Linguistic Programming Workshop. She helped me to change the way think about a few things and re-program my thoughts… so I guess this was the very beginning of the process.

Several weeks later, after spending 3 days, felling totally miserable and wondering what it was that was missing from my life, I got an e-mail from Anne-Maree about a Creative Journaling Workshop run by Nic Hohn. Nic is an amazing mixed media artist, an amazing woman. The essence of the workshop was about finding out a little more about "Who I am". It was exactly what I needed… to spend time with amazing, creative, caring, supportive women who won’t judge me, and explore who I am. Such an amazing experience. I haven’t opened up that much or that easily ever, and not feared the outcome of doing so.

I did great work...