From Heart to Hands

I am teaching an art jouraling workshop that combines mixed media skills with Dream Coaching. I love how the images, colors, textures and materials tell us what they want to be! If we let them speak, they will tell us what we most need to hear.

Here is my page on our coaching focus of "Integrity." The main character of this page shows us how when we embrace something that is not true to our heart and purpose, it will hurt us...and we may not even know it because it's too close to us.

I hope the words in this entry don't sound too preachy. They are what my Inner Guide (or Inner Therapist---great to have in a recession) tells me about the subject of Integrity. The mail order catalog pictures that begged to be cut out came together to tell me:
"Don't embrace things that aren't true to who you are. Be true to yourself. Be discerning."

Then from the Integrity experiences I had that week, Inner Wisdom told me,
"Don't sell out or settle for less than you deserve. When you know what you want you gain clarity. Clarity brings results. If you put your creative expressions "out there" accept that judgment is part of the process. Just don't let outer world judgment stifle your dreams."

I remember a coaching instructor once told us, "Experiences don't happen TO us....they happen FOR us." It's an easy thing to forget during an experience, but let some time go by and it holds true every time. Do you have any being true to yourself integrity stories to share? Please do.