ART WRITE HEAL Workshops

09/10/2026

Please join me this Saturday, September 12th at The Sandler Center For The Performing Arts in Virginia Beach for a small collective of artists presenting work focused on healing. The exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Permission Granted: The Experience performance art show.

I’ll be showing several pieces of art created from my own grief journey following the death of my husband.

The exhibit will be held in the lobby of The Sandler Center. Doors open at 6 PM to view the art exhibit; the performance begins at 7 PM.

Saturday, September 12
The Sandler Center For The Performing Arts
201 Market Street
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462

Please call the box office at 757-385-2787 to purchase Tickets for the Permission Granted: The Experience show. Your ticket is for the performance and the art show.

09/10/2026

Please join me this Saturday, September 12th at The Sandler Center For The Performing Arts in Virginia Beach for a small collective of artists presenting work focused on healing. The exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Permission Granted: The Experience performance art show.

I’ll be showing several pieces of art created from my own grief journey following the death of my husband.

The exhibit will be held in the lobby of The Sandler Center. Doors open at 6 PM to view the art exhibit; the performance begins at 7 PM.

Saturday, September 12
The Sandler Center For The Performing Arts
201 Market Street
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462

Please call the box office at 757-385-2787 to purchase Tickets for the Permission Granted: The Experience show. Your ticket is for the performance and the art show.

08/30/2026

“Finding the gratitude in the tragedy”

When something tragic happens it seems impossible to think of anything else except this awful thing that’s occurred. You’re blinded by raw pain that’s bleeding all over everything. The suggestion to try & find any type of gratitude inside this tragedy seems insane.

I believe that a tragedy does come with something to be grateful for buried deep inside it. What that thing to be grateful for might not be apparent at first. Sometimes you have to dig really deep to find it.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=492

08/30/2026

“Finding the gratitude in the tragedy”

When something tragic happens it seems impossible to think of anything else except this awful thing that’s occurred. You’re blinded by raw pain that’s bleeding all over everything. The suggestion to try & find any type of gratitude inside this tragedy seems insane.

I believe that a tragedy does come with something to be grateful for buried deep inside it. What that thing to be grateful for might not be apparent at first. Sometimes you have to dig really deep to find it.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=492

08/26/2026

“The Wandering”

There’s this thing that people who’ve lost their significant other do & they don’t even realize they’re doing it. They wander aimlessly through places, wherever that place may be. They do this because they don’t want to be at home where their loved one’s essence is woven into every single thing there.

They go to places they used to go to together. They look at things their loved one liked. They run their fingers over them because somehow touching them makes them feel closer to the one they lost.

It’s a type of coping mechanism to deal with their grief. Its unspoken name is called The Wandering.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=489

08/25/2026

“The Wandering”

There’s this thing that people who’ve lost their significant other do & they don’t even realize they’re doing it. They wander aimlessly through places, wherever that place may be. They do this because they don’t want to be at home where their loved one’s essence is woven into every single thing there.

They go to places they used to go to together. They look at things their loved one liked. They run their fingers over them because somehow touching them makes them feel closer to the one they lost.

It’s a type of coping mechanism to deal with their grief. Its unspoken name is called The Wandering.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=489

08/25/2026

08/25/2026

“A life well lived”

It’s very rare we get to live the life we planned out for ourselves. When that happens, we get so wrapped up in the disappointment of how things didn’t go according to our plans.

We ruminate over the how’s and why’s of derailed plans that we don’t see that the life we had instead was just as good if not better.

Sometimes it takes losing your loved one to realize that the life you had together, which bore no resemblance to the one you scripted years before, was truly a life well lived.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=486

08/24/2026

“Jealousy, the aspect of grief no one talks about”

There’s this mostly unofficial, unrecognized aspect of grief that no one likes to talk about. I think that’s because Biblical teachings consider it to be a sin. While that may be the case, I can tell you that this unofficial, unrecognized aspect of grief is very real & it’s called jealousy.

Almost immediately after losing my husband, strong feelings of jealousy towards people who still had their spouse rose up inside me like fire burning through a dry forest. I felt so ashamed for feeling this jealousy & I didn’t tell anyone about it for a long time.

Feeling jealous of people who still have their spouse when I no longer do is something I still struggle with to this day, almost 5 years later. That green-eyed monster rears its ugly head on occasion because I still haven’t completely learned to tame it.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=483

08/24/2026

“Jealousy, the aspect of grief no one talks about”

There’s this mostly unofficial, unrecognized aspect of grief that no one likes to talk about. I think that’s because Biblical teachings consider it to be a sin. While that may be the case, I can tell you that this unofficial, unrecognized aspect of grief is very real & it’s called jealousy.

Almost immediately after losing my husband, strong feelings of jealousy towards people who still had their spouse rose up inside me like fire burning through a dry forest. I felt so ashamed for feeling this jealousy & I didn’t tell anyone about it for a long time.

Feeling jealous of people who still have their spouse when I no longer do is something I still struggle with to this day, almost 5 years later. That green-eyed monster rears its ugly head on occasion because I still haven’t completely learned to tame it.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=483