These are the words I heard this weekend from my energy healing session with Mary Spicer. The session was a gift from my sister Michelle (thank you Mich!), while I was visiting with her this weekend in Alamada, CA.
It was something that I really needed to hear. I love my work and feel so blessed to do what I do! Very fortunate. But, like every artist I feel pressure that my work is never good enough... like I've not yet found myself stylistically. This makes sense I guess — I mean as artists we are always discovering ourselves and finding our own style. But this feeling of never being "enough" is always in the background. Mary explained that I am working from my base chakra where my fear of money or not being good enough comes from. She also told me that I need to allow my child self to come through and to work alongside her in my art and journaling. Children create to please themselves, not others. They create purely, trust in themselves and never worry about being good enough. Wise little people, aren't they!? :)
My meeting with Mary was incredible and very healing. The entire weekend seemed filled with serendipitious moments. On the flight out to San Francsico, I sat next to a very sweet lady and we got talking. Turns out that she is an incredible illustrator! Anne Keenan-Higgins creates whimsical and elegant illustrations that spoke to my soul! We hit it off immediately, got out our IPads, payed for in-flight WiFi and surfed together, sharing the art that we love on Pinterest and talking the whole flight. It was so much fun!
Between meeting Anne and my session with Mary, I was completely re-energized creatively! On my flight back home last night, as soon as we took off, I pulled out my tiny mixed media journal, my inktense pencils and a watercolor brush and doodled and painted for 3 hours! I wasn't even nervous about flying (something I usually hate). When the gentlemen next to me asked, "Are you an artist?", I hesitated—about to explain to him that no, I am just a graphic designer, and create scrapbooking products, etc etc. Instead, I just laughed and replied, "Yes, Yes! I guess I am"!
xo
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