Becoming all you were created to be

I am having a lot of fun doing ‘some arty stuff’- but let’s not be pretentious! I just love playing around with all sorts of materials including plastic pipes as well as acrylic and old bathroom tiles, and that process of creating is art. After all, it was Helena Bonham-Carter who said that everything in life can be art.

It’s about expressing yourself - in how you dress, decorate a house, dream, the food you make and what you do. It is about creating and we all, as human beings, in the business of creating, whether or not we are intentionally doing that.

I have found that if we reflect just a little in that creative imaginative process, we find ways that what is on the inside, is speaking, guiding and showing us the way to become more fully who we were created to be. It brings us in touch with other parts of ourselves such as our shadow, our false self - and our truest self.

Now those terms, if you’re wondering where they come in, are throwbacks to a previous life, when I worked as a Clinical Psychologist, and therapist. Then, I worked primarily with words - and lack of them, as often silence and holding someone in that space, is a helpful place to be, to look at what is going on inside.

But in this season of my life, I have been having fun giving form to the inside parts of me - the voices, impressions, gut feelings, in visible tangible mediums, because sometimes words can be too constricting and demanding.

So in an intriguing way, I feel I am continuing my passion for internal psychological and spiritual exploration and connection, that we all have with the world and each other, but going from the outside in.

I often say that for 38 years or so, in Europe, Africa and Pennsylvania, I have focused on an interior design of a psychological and spiritual nature. Now I am pursuing the more commonly held understood meaning of the phrase ‘interior design’!

And with that has come JOY - being ‘in the flow’, away from that overactive, thinking, analytical and wordy mind that although we need to dig into, can often detract from being joyful and becoming all we are meant to be.