The last two of a set of 4 paintings on healing are complete. The set starts with Self Compassion, followed by Embracing the Shadow (both previously posted), then Healing the Shadow, and Integration. All 4 paintings and more can be found here.
Author: Del Phoenix
The gift of being human is a journey, and the written word is my compass. Navigating the heart takes courage, humility, and faith, and sometimes has a bittersweet ending. Learning to truly enjoy the sweetness and accept the bitter is a process, enabled by the gift of consciousness that will ultimately bring us home to Spirit. I share my journey, for it means nothing to me without writing it down so I can begin to fully appreciate it. I am often a fool, and never perfect, so I tell on myself because my mistakes often become my greatest triumphs. I often end my posts with a simple phrase... Stay Blessed. My life has taught me that no matter how little I thought I had at any given moment, I always had exactly what I needed, even if I didn't recognize it at the moment. Knowing this, I have been blessed more than I realize, and I ask you to recognize in your own life, and to be grateful for each little miracle that is brought your way... Gratitude is the quickest road that brings us back to our quintessential Spirit. Stay Blessed...
Evolution
Sitting on the precipice of loss and change, unsure of what comes next, the end game still in sight but blurred around the edges by preconception. Sometimes hanging on for just one more moment at a time, Because a day, an hour, a minute is too long to comprehend the whirlwind of emotions, anticipation, and….
The Hole in the Wall
I’ve spent my life needing, crying out, to be seen… I didn’t realize that I was the one hiding until I opened the window and watched the world fly by me. Wondering why I had been holding myself back. So I swept out the cobwebs of my mind and invited the skeletons in my closet…
Ineffable
When we connected, I could see all that I hold precious in life reflected in your eyes. The ineffable waves that wash over our souls through lifes challenges, the tenderness that fuels the drive to keep moving forward, sometimes slogging, sometimes forging new roads. The depths of a childs wonder that couldn’t be erased by…
Transgender Day of Visibility: A Non-Binary perspective
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV). Two years ago, I posted about my own identity on this blog and a few other sites. While scrolling through my social media today, a friend of mine who is non-binary had posted their own definition of how non-binary identity shows up in their life and invited others…
Sitting with an old friend
I sat with someone yesterday lost in the fresh pain of grief I can’t begin to know the depth of their grief or their particular circumstances but I know my own, for I have lived with grief longer than I’ve lived with love Grief has become a reluctant friend of mine following me ever present,…
Connections
I cannot be everything that you love about me if I cannot fully be myself. My courage and tenacity, creativity and vulnerability, and all the other parts, cannot exist without the messiness, the fear, the pain, or the doubt. For my love has been buried beneath these, and it does not feel safe to come…
Embracing the Shadow: New Expressive Arts Piece
Embracing the Shadow, mixed media painting on canvas. Prints available.
Passion: A New Expressive Arts Piece.
Here is a new expressive arts piece titled Passion. This piece is a mixed media collage. Please visit my expressive arts page here.
Self Compassion: A New Expressive Arts Piece
What I know about growth is that it takes the time it takes. We can’t force it. We can’t jump ahead in the line. We have to start where we are, with acceptance that we don’t know whatever it is that we don’t know yet. And when we know better, we do better. It really…
