Designing a Masterpiece

10/21/2026

Thank you Emerald Gnosis for your wisdom, guidance and space you held for us as we moved through Reiki Level II.✨

I’m grateful for what I’m learning, the deeper connection I’m developing with Reiki and the ways this practice is becoming part of my own personal journey. I’m looking forward to how Reiki is becoming part of the path I’m creating for Designing a Masterpiece’s new direction.

Congratulations to our Reiki II graduates, Sarah Ortmann, Mary-Diane McGurk , and Amy Portell Coomes! Reiki II focuses on emotional and distant healing. Congratulations, ladies!

10/19/2026

Self-care is about nourishing your soul and fall can show us how much freedom there is in letting go.

Fall is a season of change, and for those of us in midlife, it mirrors the shifts happening in our own lives. Many of us are asked to let go of the roles, responsibilities and identities we’ve spent years fulfilling. We’re transitioning from one stage of life to another. Embracing the art of letting go during this 'season' can support our emotional well-being, mental clarity and happiness.

When we release what has been holding us back, controlling us, and dictating how we live, we reclaim our mental and emotional energy and freedom. Our anxiety reduces, our self-awareness and self-worth strengthen and we build resilience as we navigate these transitions.

The power of letting go is a celebration of clarity, growth and inner peace. It’s recognizing what has been blocking us from being free and choosing to release it with intention. When we let go of the old, we make room for the new. We create an opportunity for rebirth, making space for presence, purpose and grace.

Try a symbolic release ritual: Take a few moments to write down something you’re ready to let go of. It might be a role you’ve outgrown, a responsibility that no longer fits, an expectation you’ve been carrying, or an old belief that has been holding you back.

Safely burn the paper as a symbolic act of release. As you watch it burn, take a deep breath and set your intention to let go of what you’re ready to leave behind and welcome what nourishes your soul.

As you practice letting go, repeat this affirmation:
I release what no longer serves me and I welcome what nourishes my soul.

10/15/2026

Today’s Jefferson County Growth Association networking event was amazing! Leigh Ragsdale was so motivational, funny and authentically real. Her real-life stories she shared connected with all of us in the room on such a human level.

I walked away reminded that we’re all doing the best we can and just like we appreciate that in others, we need to give ourselves that same grace. Supporting yourself first gives you that soul-filling fuel to serve, connect and grow with others.

And that’s what these networking events are about: building a community that supports each other, making friendships and remembering to be your own cheerleader while you’re cheering everyone else on.

I am grateful for networking opportunities like this.

I am celebrating this journey of rediscovering, reclaiming, redefining and renewing myself. At my core, I always knew who I was and now I get to fully embrace her.

I am honoring myself right where I’m at, giving myself permission to be and showing up fully present as my truest highest self.

I am thankful for the business I am building and for the journey of transition, creative discovery and spiritual exploration.

I am excited to share my gifts so others can learn to heal through creativity.

The selfie was part of Leigh’s message today and I’m sharing it here as a personal reminder to reconnect with my authentic self and remember who I am.

10/11/2026

After all the astrological fuss we’ve been moving through lately, I’m welcoming this New Moon in Libra! 🌑 ⚖️

Libra brings us back to balance and harmony and I’ve been thinking about how much those two things show up in our everyday lives. The way we talk to ourselves, the relationships we nurture, even the everyday tasks that fill our days. There’s energy in all of it.

With today being 10-10 Portal and World Mental Health Day, it’s a good time to check in with yourself. Take a moment to notice what’s been activating your nervous system. What’s been triggering a reaction or stirring up emotions? Sometimes our emotions are telling us something is worth exploring.

Grab your journal and ask yourself, “What’s been triggering an emotional reaction?”

Get curious about what comes up. What’s underneath that feeling? Where can you use more honesty or more balance? What feels aligned? What are you ready to release? What are you ready to nurture? Keep asking questions. Sometimes there’s more to discover when you give yourself the chance to explore beyond that first answer.

Bring a little more intention into your daily routine. 💫

This is something I love about taking a daily activity and giving it intention. Even an ordinary task can become an opportunity to check in with yourself and notice the energy you’re bringing into that moment. Research has explored how rituals and familiar routines can help ease anxiety by giving the brain and nervous system a sense of predictability and safety. And when we feel safe, we can become more open to curiosity, reflection, and discovering something new about ourselves.

Try bringing that intention into something you already do each day. As you move through your routine, notice the energy you’re bringing with you. Use that moment to check in with yourself, then carry that awareness into your relationships. How are you giving and receiving? Are you honoring your own needs? Is there a healthy give and take? Where might a boundary help you protect your energy?

That’s where the Libra themes of balance, harmony, and self-respect come together. The relationship you have with yourself influences how you show up with others, what you nurture, and what you allow into your life.

This New Moon in Libra is a beautiful opportunity to also set intentions around the relationships you want to cultivate, the harmony you want to create, and what being true to yourself looks like in your everyday life.

Plant an intention that protects your peace. ✨

09/04/2026

Inside every creative lives a truer self — a light that existed before all the noise got layered on top of it.

We call it different things. Your voice. Your source. Your true nature. None of the names quite hold the whole of it, but you know it when you feel it.

Its that state where you disappear and the work simply moves through you, like it was always going to exist and you just happened to be standing there when it arrived.

Authenticity isn’t a destination you reach and then get to keep. It’s a daily practice. It’s showing up and creating the thing that whispers to you.

It’s choosing integrity over imitation. Patience over production. Depth over display.

It’s embracing your true self.

It comes from listening closely to what moves you the small, specific things only you would notice.

It’s burning away the borrowed opinions, the performance, the fear of what it should look like until what’s left is only what was true the whole time.

You don’t invent your authentic self. You clear a path back to it.

And when you create from that place, unplugged from ego and fully connected to the source, the work stops feeling like labor and starts feeling like remembering.

Return to it again and again. Watch what you make become entirely, sovereignly yours.

09/02/2026

There is a version of you on the other side of what feels messy right now.

If your body feels heavy, if your mind is foggy, or if your mood has felt different and unexplained over these last few days, there’s a reason why.

This unexpected heat, paired with the full moon hangover and active solar flares hitting at the exact same time, creates a heavy physical load. (why I’m not sleeping)

There’s so much energetic change happening around us and it feels completely messy.

We so often get caught waiting for everything on the outside to calm down before we allow ourselves to move forward, but we forget to look inward at what we actually embody.

That chaos belongs to the outside world.

The messy, unsettled state you feel right now is the active environment of your own transformation.

You are the change and the rebirth and you can evolve right in the middle of this mess without waiting for the world to settle.

This is the exact journey the butterfly embodies. 🦋 It serves as a spiritual messenger reminding us that external turbulence has no authority over our internal growth.

To become what it is, the butterfly moves through distinct stages of evolving, leaves the safety of its cocoon and places full trust in its wings to carry it through the magical world.

Through every step of its journey, the butterfly teaches us that change is safe.

Discover the encouragement you need to embrace the changes happening in your life, take action as you move through your flow, let go of trying to find definite control, and trust that the universe has your next step.

The transformation is already alive, active, and taking shape inside you right now!!!✨

08/18/2026

If you're carrying grief or loss in any form, I'm hosting Comfort Circles, a free gathering to paint through it, live on Zoom, TONIGHT at 7pm.

08/16/2026

Feeling weighed down by grief? This free watercolor experience offers a supportive space to release emotions through paint, quiet your mind and discover a sense of calm.

Together we'll explore:
• Expressing grief through simple watercolor painting
• Calming the mind by focusing on color, water and gentle movement
• Small creative choices that restore a sense of steadiness during life's hardest moments

If your heart longs for a gentle place to breathe, create and express what grief carries, RSVP today and reserve your place. Bring your watercolor supplies, bring yourself and join me for an evening of creativity, compassionate support and calmness.

Learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1GnJ6Vr6hr/

08/14/2026

Explore how creativity can become another way to process and heal from grief and loss. Join me Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

08/13/2026

There is something powerful about giving an emotion a visual form because it gives us another way to experience it.

I want you to know that when you are struggling to find words to communicate your emotions, there is another way that you can release them and it's by creating. Spoken words often demand precision and clarity.

When you turn to art and creativity instead, the process becomes very intuitive. The emotions are not forced or analyzed; they are released by flowing out. There is no methodical process you have to follow and no right or wrong approach.

When you have difficulty communicating what is inside, you can use creativity to express everything that words fail to say.