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You don’t have to carry grief alone.

You’re invited into gentle, trauma-informed creative sessions where art becomes a safe space to explore emotions, honour your experience, and reconnect with yourself.

09/08/2026

I received a beautiful note from one of my clients yesterday. It reminded me why this work is so important to me.

07/08/2026

As my Art for Grief individual sessions continue to grow, I’ve been reflecting on how meaningful it feels to witness this work taking shape.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to hold space for an in-person session, and today I held space virtually with someone who was exploring their own journey through creativity.

What continues to move me is the trust people place in this process — the willingness to slow down, to reconnect with themselves, and to make space for emotions that don’t always have words.

Grief is such a deeply human experience. It can come with loss, change, uncertainty, illness, identity shifts, and the many moments in life where we find ourselves asking, “Who am I now?”

Creating a gentle space to explore those questions through art can be a powerful way to reconnect — not by trying to rush through grief, but by learning to sit alongside it with compassion.

I’m so grateful that Art for Grief is beginning to reach more people, group settings, in person and online. This work has been close to my heart, and it’s incredibly meaningful to see it unfold.

For those who have been longing for a creative way to reconnect with themselves I’d love to connect.

Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey, shared my work, attended a workshop, or simply followed along. It means more than you know.

06/08/2026

What feelings do you need to feel?

05/08/2026

Motherless Daughter: A Gathering of Stories, Grief, & Remembrance

Saturday, October 3 | 1pm - 4pm

A space to honour the mothers we carry.

A gathering of storytelling, reflection, and slow textile-based creation.

Losing a mother changes the landscape of a life.

Whether you experience the loss of your mother and childhood or later in life, the absence can become woven into our identity - quietly influencing, how we move through the world, relate to ourselves, and make meaning of our lives.

This gathering is for anyone who identifies with the experience of being a motherless daughter. The word daughter is not defined by gender. It is a relationship, a role, and a bond that holds many different meanings. Together, we will create a gentle ceremonial space to honour our mothers, share stories, and connect with others who understand the unique experience of mother loss.

Through reflection, storytelling, and a slow textile based creative practice, using fabric, fiber, and thread. We will create with our hands while making space for memory, grief, love and connection. This is a gathering to remember. A place to share the stories of the mothers we carry. A place where grief can be witnessed held and transformed through community and creativity.

No artistic experience is needed. Come as you are, with your memories, your stories, and whatever you are carrying.

Saturday, October 3, 2026 1pm-4pm

Hansa Wellness - 230 South Kingsway
$30 per person (+ applicable fees and HST)
Ticket purchase through link in bio

23/07/2026

Sometimes art isn’t a pleasant thing.

Sometimes I make art because I need somewhere to put the things I don’t know what to do with.

The anger. The grief. The fear. The parts of myself I don’t particularly like. The emotions that make me want to scream, kick, punch, destroy whatever is in front of me.

Sometimes I make something and I hate it. Sometimes I want to hide it. Sometimes I want to stop because what I’m seeing feels too raw, too ugly, too close to something I don’t want to look at.

But maybe I need to keep going.

I wrote about the messy, uncomfortable, sometimes ugly side of making art—and why, for me, art isn’t always about creating something beautiful.

Sometimes it’s a lifeline.

Sometimes it’s the only way I know to move something through me.

And sometimes, when I let myself feel it all, my shoulders aren’t quite so heavy.

I wrote about that.

Let Me Be Ugly for a While
Sometimes art isn’t a pleasant thing.

Read the full piece on Substack. Link in bio.

16/07/2026

Yesterday, while walking through the city with smoke-filled lungs on my way to a first aid course, I found myself asking a question I suspect many of us have asked lately:

What’s the point?

When the world feels heavy, it’s easy to believe our small acts don’t matter.

But maybe...that’s exactly the point.

This week’s essay is about climate grief, overwhelm, and the quiet ways we choose resistance. Through kindness. Through creativity. Through community. Through the everyday choices that help make the world a little less hard.

Because hope isn’t passive.
 It’s something we practice.

If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to read the full piece over on Substack. The link is in my bio. 🌎🤍

09/07/2026

A small offering, a big dream. 🌱

I’ve created a Buy Me a Coffee page to help support the continued growth of Art for Grief—a creative wellbeing practice rooted in art, grief support, and human connection.

Contributions help me continue developing workshops, creating resources, purchasing materials, and expanding my training in psychotherapy so I can deepen this work.

If my art, writing, or workshops have connected with you, and you’d like to support this journey, you can find the link in my bio.

Thank you for believing in the power of creativity as a pathway toward healing. ❤️

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