47. What is Art Therapy? {a blast from the past}
Release Date: 08/05/2024
69. Maintaining Liberation After Leaving Trauma Bonds
Creating Light with Kelsey
My Story pt6. Just because we leave a traumatic relationship, situation, or toxic cycle doesn't mean we then have the capacity to remain free from it. On this episode, I share what my life was like after I had left the trauma bonded relationship (the first time). That by leaving, it then created the space for my supressed pain to finally be felt so I could get free from internal suffering... but, I didn't actually have the capacity to be with that discomfort and feel it. This was the period of my life where I was in full swing of operating off my shadows. Doing anything I could to distract...
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68. Reconnecting To My Darkness
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this episode, I discuss how I have been reconnecting to my darkness. That by re-sharing my story on the podcast it has re-surfaced shadow aspects of self that I didn't realized I had abandoned. They are being seen again and it's been challenging. Trust has been broken, fear is present, vulnerability is at the forefront, and my shadows have a lot to say. Deciding to no longer hide is no fucking joke. Even though this has been challenging, it has also been liberating. I am remembering at a deeper level (as the spiral goes) that my wisdom lies within my darkness. That is where the medicine...
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67. Flowing with Chaos
Creating Light with Kelsey
Chaos is an inevitable part of life of being human. It is a guaranteed visitor at least twice a year during the spring and fall eclipse seasons. Since this is something that cannot be stopped, how can we then flow WITH chaos instead of resisting it (and hurting ourselves in the process)? On this episode, I share how chaos has been visiting me lately, how it is mirroring a previous chaotic time from 4 years ago, and how this time I was able to flow with it better. Spoiler alert, it involved feeling my feelings. Key Takeaways: Being on the healing journey doesn't mean you're immune to...
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66. The Paradox of Grief, Hope, and Love with Alexa Rising
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this guest episode we have the lovely Alexa Rising! Alexa is a spirited woman, who is stepping into a chapter of educating herself and community about ways to heal and find safety through movement, dance, and mindfulness. Recently certified as a Dharma Life and Soul Purpose Coach and Somatic Activated Healing Teacher, Alexa is learning to navigate the present through a lens of changing the course of her life by stepping away from her career as a teacher, and working to shift her life mindset through pursuing a more aware lifestyle. During the past few years, Alexa has worked closely...
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65. The Healing Power of Dreamwork
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this episode, I give an introduction of what dreamwork is and how working with your dreams is a powerful tool for healing! Dreams do mean something and they are incredibly valuable in that they provide a direct pathway to our unconscious mind. As we continue to learn ways to connect to the self beyond conscious awareness is how healing gets to integrate, which means lasting change gets to take place. As Carl Jung beautifully put, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." Key takeaways: Dreams can assist in healing trauma How to use art...
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64. Quick Somatic Tools To Reconnect To The Body pt3
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this short episode, I give you 3 somatic tools that you can practice at home! These somatic tools can be used individually, or be practices all together in a sequence, and will help you reconnect to the body. Use these tools when you feel overwhelmed, experiencing an intense feeling, lost in ruminating thoughts, feeling stuck, and of course, when you're feeling disconnected from your body or reality. If you find yourself curious about somatic movement after this episode and wanting to explore it more, you can try 2 somatic classes for free, New to somatic movement and interested in...
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63. Relationships and Sexuality as a Teenager
Creating Light with Kelsey
We're getting comfy cozy in this episode as I speak on the topic of relationships and sexuality as a teenager while I'm recording this in my teenage-hood bedroom. Visiting my parents couldn't be more timely in the (pre-planned) episodes that happened to then be recorded at this time... For today, I continue to dive in on why it's so important for us as adults, to talk to our children about sex and sexuality. Why we need to take the responsibility of teaching them what is healthy and unhealthy when it comes to romantically relating to others. Key Takeaways: How somatic work aids in...
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62. Unpacking the programming of Anxiety, Burnout, People Pleasing, & Perfectionism with Kathleen Hayes
Creating Light with Kelsey
In this episode, we have another guest, Kathleen Hayes!! Kathleen is an artist, a somatic coach & spiritual mentor, and a lifelong seeker of magic. Her journey led her from film school, to recreational therapy for children on the autism spectrum, to yoga teaching, to a master's in industrial & organizational psychology, and eventually, to coaching. After her lifelong anxiety and depression manifested as chronic pain, illness, and burnout, Kathleen quit her "dream" job (the safest one anyway), and dove into the world of somatic healing and spirituality, eventually becoming certified in...
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61. What it takes to become an Art Therapist
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this episode, I share what it takes logistically to become an Art Therapist! How much schooling you have to go through, a few things to expect while you're in school, and what the process is like after school to become fully credentialed and practice independently. Becoming an Art Therapist is quite the process, but if you feel called to be with people in their darkness through creative means, be in the mental health field in a way that is beyond just talk therapy, this avenue of a helping profession very well could be for you!! If this topic is of interest to you, there are also multiple...
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60. Avoiding My Trauma Turned Into Depression
Creating Light with Kelsey
This is such an important episode that provides various layers to the subject. Listen with curiosity at the forefront and still consult with any medical professionals you see fit if you are also questioning your own sensations of depression. But, it is no coincidence, that I never had experienced a severe episode of depression until I became aware of the trauma I had endured. That once I became aware, it was evident that it was too much for my mind and body to handle when I did not have healthy tools to be with (heal from) the trauma. So, to what this episode speaks to, of course I became...
info_outlineThis is an incredibly special moment because it is the re-release of my very first podcast episode!! I started this show back in 2021 on a mission to share my story and show the world that "even in the midst of pain, I had found purpose." How I could "create light while feeling the darkness." But in 2022, I decided to take all the episodes down. I could feel a massive internal shift happening that needed the space to evolve. I started the show back up at the end of 2022, but as I was telling my story I decided to take those episodes down again. After all this space, and life being completely different, I am feeling called to re-release some original episodes as I am stepping back into the world of Art Therapy along with continuing to retell my story.
A big part of how I deliever my purpose work is in being a living testimony. I lead by example. I share my journey, how I've shown up, what I practice, how life has changed, and how it has now become what I teach. This is my medicine. So, enjoy this first episode as I briefly break down what Art Therapy is!
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