Creative Soul Healing Podcast
147 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsShowing the Connection between Healing and Creativity. Larissa Russell the owner of Creative U interviews Creatives, Healers and people who have healed using creativity (eg: Abuse survivors, Cancer survivors). Listen as these amazing people share their connection between healing and creativity.
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Episode 46 Featuring Shanna Forrestall
October 07, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBI have to admit that I did not know Shanna Forrestall before we met, but I am so glad we met. She is an amazing human full of resilience and strength. We had a beautiful conversation about love and hardship. We talked about how we grow through trauma and how creativity is that healing outlet to allow ourselves to grieve, process and move forward in our lives with love and empathy. Shanna is an effervescent woman who has been through some horrible life traumas, including the loss of...
Episode 45 Featuring Heather Plett
September 30, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBI had a lovely conversation with Heather about creating and the healing aspects of creation. Heather is the author of the new book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership. She is also the co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space where she trains people from all over the world how to be in deeper and more intentional relationships with others and themselves. www.heatherplett.com www.Centreforholdingspace.com - free gift available for subscribin...
Episode 44 Featuring Wendy H Jones
September 23, 2020 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBI have to say that I adore Wendy, she is a Scottish best selling Murder Mystery Writer with such an interesting life story. She was a co-author for the Power of Why book, and it soared to the bestselling charts with her help. We chatted about writing, journaling and the healing power of putting words to paper. Have a listen as she tells us about finding a new life purpose after falling ill. From Army Major to Bestselling author. Wendy H. Jones is an international best-selling, awa...
Episode 43 Featuring Leonie Dawson
September 16, 2020 14:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBNote: This interview is not for the faint of heart. There is swearing, we talk Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and about LGBT+ youth suicides. Plus we finished up by talking about being on the autism spectrum...We also talk about creativity and healing amongst all that. And, there is also a lot of laughter. Do you revenge donate? I love this idea. Someone speaking out against something you support, donate to a cause in their name. Make sure to send them ...
Episode 42 Featuring Nicole Burgess
September 09, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBI had a great conversation with Nicole, about walking our talk and doing what we tell others to do. How important that is for keeping yourself on track. Also knowing your why of what you do… or want to do. We also talked about being superwomen and looking at unpacking how we can find more balance in our lives. We do not need to do it all. Changing our mindset to make changes in our lives. Nicole Burgess is a licensed psychotherapist and leadership coach to introverted, sensitive...
Episode 41 featuring Fatima Sumar
September 02, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBI had a great conversation with Fatima and after I stumbled with the tongue twister we talked about being in service to others and what that means and how she has used creativity in her life to help her heal in different ways. Fatima is one of my co-authors of the book ‘The Power of Why’, read about our stories and our why for getting into business. Fatima is a philanthropic entrepreneur who helps people live their healthiest version of themselves and find their voice on Social Me...
Episode 40 featuring Ildikó Karsay
August 26, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBIldikó is a dreamer – explorer – mom of 3, when she paints…. She is inside of her paintings …No matter what others think of her, she found herself and loves the process. Ildikó is always seeking her own style in different mediums – the vibrant colours are the connection in between – which comes from her deep soul. She believes that in the gray world we live in, the colours help to cheer up. She learned to calm down. She is working to let off her maximalism and she teaches that the...
Episode 39 featuring Amber Clawson Fife
August 19, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBAmber Fife lives on 4 wooded acres in South Jersey with her professor husband and homeschools her 4 children. With degrees in math and art, Amber found photography the marriage of the two. After a decade of being in business and moving across the country, Amber felt something was missing, and she wanted to not feel crippled by anxiety. Her healing began in 2016 as she returned to her artistic roots and made time for creating on a regular basis. Finding so much success in her own life, Amb...
Episode 38 featuring Christine Karpiak
August 12, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBChristine is a mixed media artist and teacher who seeks wholeness through creative discoveries and expression. Whether Christine performs, gardens, paints, photographs or makes a general mess in her studio, the need to breathe creativity into her life is how she survives life’s hardships and elations. After having finished her Masters, Christine was faced with long term grief from suddenly having lost her sister, after tragically losing her mother only a few years prior, and turned...
Episode 37 featuring Anna Bartlett
August 05, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBHi, I'm Anna Bartlett and I am Shiny Happy Art. That's exactly what I do! I love being an artist and I REALLY LOVE helping others discover that they can be too. For the past 8 years, I have been welcoming people to my studio to Paint Along with me. I now offer to sketch and painting Art Events to groups and businesses and pop up in beautiful places (like Norfolk Island!) to run Art Holidays and Workshops. In January 2019 I launched the Paint Along of the Month Club and each month...
Episode 36 featuring Larissa Russell
July 29, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBI have been a creative person my whole life, I have tried many creative endeavors, from interior painting specialties back in the 90’s, through to healing through creativity today, and everything in between in my 30+ years of teaching and creating. I am an artist and my favourite medium is acrylics, and my signature technique is adding metal foils. I love the flow of colour against the edges of the metals. I am also an educator, a creativity coach, an author, and a healer. I tr...
Episode 35 featuring Sywia Gryczuk
July 22, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBMy name is Sylwia Gryczuk, I am a mum of two beautiful girls, an artist, illustrator and youth justice worker. After completing my master’s degree in Pedagogy I decided to leave my beautiful country Poland and move to evergreen Ireland. My creative journey started here on this island full of fairy stories and history. Here I discover my love for children’s art and illustrations. I believe that every one of us has an inner child hidden within, and sometimes we just need to let it go ...
Episode 34 featuring Lonnie Gustafson
July 15, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.39 MBBusinesswoman and mother of 4. I gave birth to my children, at home, unassisted. I help women discover their greatness in birth beyond their fears. I educate people about and shed light on where our fears come from. How external influences and circumstances instill fears that prevent us from living our dreams. We are all capable of being successful and waking up to the truths is essential to our freedom http://www.healthy-birth.com/ Interview Time Stamps 00:57 - Bio 01:59 - Can y...
Episode 33 featuring Kayla Huszar
July 08, 2020 14:00 - 10 minutes - 7.57 MBI am a registered social worker + expressive art therapist doing therapy in an atypical way (couch sitting need not apply). I am also a wife, mom (both human and fur), self-taught hobbyist photographer, and my most joyous days are spent in the forest contemplating my place in the world. AND I believe in art & creative expression as a way to communicate and heal. http://www.kaylahuszar.com https://www.instagram.com/huszarexpressiveart/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjfh06kWvd3Dm5...
Episode 32 featuring Deanna Jinjoe
July 01, 2020 14:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBA few years ago I was dealing with some serious, chronic health issues. My doctor’s solution was to prescribe medications by the hundreds. I was driven by this pain to seek a solution other than my doctor’s. One of the solutions turned out to be art. I started playing and dabbling, taking a few online courses and what I quickly realized is that no matter how much physical pain I woke up with, I didn’t feel any pain once I sat down at my easel. Now, a few years later, pain is no lon...
Episode 31 featuring Youhjung Son
June 24, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBYouhjung Son is a certified art therapist, artist, consultant, and content creator for YouTube channel “Thirsty For Art,” living in Austin, TX. Youhjung is passionate about bringing therapeutic art-making to the everyday person and using art as a healing tool to express and understand oneself. Through the podcast, Youtube, and blogging, Youhjung helps make art therapy accessible, encourage people to pick up their paintbrushes and create without judgment. When not working, Youhjung c...
Episode 30 featuring Jenna Reiss
June 17, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBJenna, healer, writer and Breathwork Coach, believes in the personal power of oneself and works with each client to help them re-discover their self-love and higher-truth. With an individualistic and holistic approach, she pulls from a toolbox of intuitive thinking, therapeutic conversation, essential oils, crystal healing, and musical sounds to guide students deep into a higher state of consciousness. She has been a student of many master teachers in Buddhist lineages for Meditatio...
Episode 29 featuring Karen Atkins
June 10, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBKaren Atkins is a unique vitality lifestyle expert and entrepreneur. Creator of Master Your Body iQ, Karen has helped thousands of busy students around the world bust stress, build their vitality and realize their TRUE purpose. Karen has been featured on Ted Talks and Good Morning America and is also an award-winning musician. She's also written a love song to a mountain https://www.karenatkins.com https://www.instagram.com/karenatkins... https://www.youtube.com/user/KarenjAt.....
Episode 28 featuring Christine Elder
June 03, 2020 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBChristine Elder is a naturalist, artist, and educator. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biology and a certificate in Science Illustration from the University of California. Christine teaches nature sketching workshops, leads international retreats, and offers online classes in nature sketching, painting, and journaling. She has an insatiable drive to travel to observe and sketch wildlife in their native habitats. She’s been blessed to watch breaching whales in Alaska, co...
Episode 27 featuring Maha Atef
May 27, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBHi, my name is Maha Atef, I’m the co-founder of Selsal online gift store and art school. I’m a self-taught artist with a pharmacy degree. I’ve been designing and making gifts and jewelry with polymer clay since 2013 and for as long as I can remember, I’ve had a great passion for art and drawing. Along with my younger sister Menna, she was a high school student in those days, we started Selsal in 2013. And for a whole year, I was working in a pharmaceutical company while simultaneou...
Episode 26 featuring Tiffany Sparrow
May 20, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBWith pure tones and soulful lyrics, Tiffany Sparrow offers her sound in unique ways. In concert settings, she weaves ambient folksy-roots original songs with cover tunes and world music. Soundbath journeys combine guided meditation with sound frequency to promote deep rest and relaxation. Kirtan group chanting communal singing events accessing the devotional yoga of sound. Tiffany is also an accredited music therapist (BMT, MTA), specializing in medical settings, neurology, and pall...
Episode 25 featuring Rebecca Jackson Aydelette
May 13, 2020 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBRebecca is SoulCollage® facilitator, Reiki Master, and certified aromatherapist. Rebecca Aydelette’s superpowers are connecting with people heart-to-heart and creating an atmosphere of peace and harmony. The fact is that there were a point and time in her life where she was so overwhelmed, overcommitted and exhausted that she didn’t feel connected to anyone, including herself and more than anything, she yearned for a sense of peaceful harmony. Bolstered by the realization that she h...
Episode 24 featuring Andrea Gomoll
May 06, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBAndrea Gomoll is an Artist from Berlin / Germany, where she lives with her husband Thomas and 3 crazy Cats. She studied Design in Berlin and started her own business as an Artist, Art Instructor and Designer in 2009, sharing her Love and Passion for everything Creative with the World ever since. "I’m a multifaceted Artist, loving whimsical, colorful Illustrations that nurture my inner child as well as more realistic Everyday Sketches and Paintings. My Art always reflects my Mood an...
Episode 23 featuring Debby Stroud
April 29, 2020 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBDebby grew up a wannabe artist. But at the age of 40, a miraculous door opened for her to enter the creative arts field. She was afraid, but jumped in with both feet! Now Debby’s passion is inspiring and empowering women to crush fear, take back their feminine power and stand in it so they can create a life they love, not one they thought they’d been handed. With over 15 years of experience teaching and speaking about art and creativity, Debby has also taught visual arts in public ...
Episode 22 featuring Sue Young
April 22, 2020 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.31 MBI am a mixed media artist inspired by fantasy and dark whimsy. I am fascinated by expressive face and animals and I love to create dreamy portraits. My work evolves in many layers and is often accompanied by a story or poem that comes to me along the creative journey. I studied Fine Art and Design and also Fashion Design and over years of creating I have worked as a glass engraver, run several galleries, and designed and even created headdresses and tiaras for a Bridal House for a ...
Episode 21 featuring Alexandra Kleinichen
April 15, 2020 14:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBAlex K is a professional artist, non-fiction author and a spiritual Health & Life Coach who is passionate about helping young adults to remember their soul and to reawaken to their gifts through art. She has published her first book: Light up your soul: healing from anxiety and depression through art and is currently writing volume 2 of the Light up your soul series - an art journal course to reawaken your gifts. Alex runs art healing courses and workshops in which she is help...
Episode 20 featuring Donna Engstrom
April 08, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBI firmly believe in the healing power of art. I've seen the effects up close and personal. Art is my passion! As a mixed media artist, layering texture and color in an intuitive manner helps me weave a visual history. My goal is to provide a mysterious and intriguing surface, engaging you, the viewer. I find words especially appealing and much of my work is inspired by books and poetry. I encourage students to use color and shape to explore a subject while allowing them to personal...
Episode 19 featuring Tammy Watz
April 01, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBTammy is a 3rd generation psychic medium who feels that this natural part of her life is just like breathing. It is all she has ever known. When Tammy was 4 years old her Grandfather passed away. She remembers from that young age visiting and playing games with her Grandfather's spirit. Her abilities have only grown and evolved since then. She now uses her intuitive abilities to pass on messages from loved ones and angels to us in the physical world. Tammy made it very clear many ...
Episode 18 featuring Lee Clements
March 25, 2020 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBHi, I’m Lee Clements, a mixed media artist, art journaler and art teacher living in Melbourne, Australia. I believe that we all have inherent creativity, and inspiring and encouraging others to find their voice through creative exploration and expression, regardless of experience or artistic ability, is deeply gratifying and is my passion. A firm advocate for art journaling as a tool for mental wellbeing, my art journal pages are a mixture of inner reflection, contemplation, and he...
Episode 17 featuring Bodhi Simpson
March 18, 2020 14:00 - 11 minutes - 7.62 MBBodhi Simpson, LCPC, ATR is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Registered Art Therapist in the state of Maine. Bodhi has an art therapy practice in Waterville, Maine called Conscious Art Therapy, is the co-founder of Vast Horizons Center for Personal Growth in Brunswick, Maine, and is a co-creator of The Self-Compassion Symposium held annually in Freeport, Maine. Additionally, Bodhi provides individual and group sessions, workshops, training, and retreats locally, nati...
Episode 16 featuring Christina Miles
March 11, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBMy name is Christina, I have been married to my sailor for 37 years. We have to young me and two silly little kittens who rule the house! I have worked in Special Education for 25 years now where I worked as a paraeducator and last year, I became an Assistive Technology Assistant. I work with iPad and other techie stuff. I have always been a creative person, so doing this switch was fairly easy for me. As a creative person, I see art in many different ways and forms. I always say t...
Episode 15 featuring Anne Butera
March 04, 2020 15:00 - 19 minutes - 13.8 MB00:58 - Bio 02:14 - How she comes up with her Blog name Giant Strawberry 03:44 - Can you share some of your story and your path that brought you to where you are now? 09:40 - What does healing with creativity mean to you? 10:46 - Do you think there's a driving force that inspires you? 11:24 - What would you say is your favorite creative healing modality for yourself? 12:39 - What would you consider is your greatest accomplishment to date? 14:30 - If you could change ...
Episode 14 featuring Christa Forrest
February 26, 2020 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBMy name is Christa and I truly love sharing my passion. I am a SoulFul artist creating inspiration and motivation to help others see and live their passion. After spending 20 years in a career in finance that was anxiety driven, stressful and starving my true soul to live, I decided to leave the safe and secure corporate, cubicle life to pursue my passion for art and teaching. In the past 4 years I have led a happier, more fulfilled life and want to share my journey with all of you....
Episode 13 featuring Consie Sindet
February 19, 2020 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBConsie Sindet is a mixed media artist whose work often includes some form of doodling. She has been an artist for as long as she can remember and has done everything from teaching decorative painting, selling at crafts shows, painting murals, to face and body painting, and henna art. She discovered the world of art journaling in 2014 and jumped right in! Consie offers online classes and creative inspiration on her website, Atop Serenity Hill. She believes that we should never stop l...
Episode 12 featuring Dr Lindsay Weisner
February 12, 2020 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBLindsay Weisner is a clinical Psychologist in Long Island, New York. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1999 and was awarded a fellowship in child development at the NIH/NICHD. She received her doctorate from C.W. Post, LIU, and went on to pursue post-doctorate training at the American Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Weisner is the current host of the Neurotic Nourishment Podcast and the co-author of the upcoming book Ten Steps To Finding Happy. This book will be released ...
Episode 11 featuring John Robson
February 05, 2020 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBJohn Robson For my first 20 years I was a high tech, product development engineer taking products from concept to high volume production. I hired and worked with over 100 engineers that needed the same help as I did - so learning and applying problem solving, creativity, and communication skills was a focus of mine. In 1980, I was awakened taking 'Master Key' - a program about consciousness that showed me the power of intuition and ways to enhance it. I learned ancient wisdoms...
Episode 10 featuring Jeanette Kunkel
January 29, 2020 14:00 - 11 minutes - 7.87 MBJeanette is an abstract artist and was born in Alberta and grew up in Calgary. She uses acrylic on canvas. Her natural artistic ability surfaced at an early age where she found herself fascinated with colors from nature. Being surrounded with golden prairies and the majestic blues and grays of the Rocky Mountains, Jeanette absorbed their beauty on a regular basis. Her gift gives her the ability to translate objects in nature into non-representational forms using rich and vivid color...
Episode 9 featuring Melissa Rohlfs
January 22, 2020 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBMelissa Rohlfs is a certified holistic health and life coach helping busy women create new healthy habits so they can lose weight for good, gain energy and be the woman they desire to be. She is committed to empowering women to break free from dieting, emotional eating and self-image issues so they can ditch the diet mentality, and feel confident and empowered in their own skin. After her own tumultuous history with food {withholding and then later in life, bingeing}, she learned ...
Episode 8 Featuring Corinne V
January 15, 2020 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBCorinne V Works and lives in Edmonton, AB Canada She is a Cancer ass kicker her last chemo treatment was March 2, 2019 Corinne lives with Multiple Sclerosis and was diagnosed 2013 You can find the host Larissa Russell here: https://www.creativeu.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/CreativeU.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/creativeu.ca/ https://www.pinterest.ca/CreativeUdotca/ Rate our podcast on Podchaser. You can leave a podcast review, and even episode reviews. https://www.podchas...
Episode 7 featuring Dai Manuel
January 08, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBDai Manuel is a super dad, dating his wife, with a lead by example way of living and a contagious personality, who is on a mission to positively impact one million role models around the globe to lead a FUN-ctionally fit life through education, encouragement, and community. He is an award-winning digital thought leader and author, Distinguished Toastmaster & keynote speaker, former partner and Chief Operating Officer of a multi-million dollar retail company, and a sought after li...
Episode 6 featuring Michelle Wadsworth
January 01, 2020 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBMichelle brings mind, body and spirit together as one into each treatment session. Her extensive knowledge in anatomy and physiology are supported by a strong and sympathetic healing touch. She also has an acute sensitivity to the energies int eh body. Her expertise ranges from gentle relaxation massage through to more intense treatments. Treatments like Stamina massage which helps with alignment and strengthening of the load management muscles. https://www.humantouchtm.com/ You c...
Episode 5 featuring Shea Manweiler
December 18, 2019 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBShea is an artist and worldbuilder focusing on fantasy cartography. She is fascinated by the worldbuilding process. The research and description process that goes into developing characters and settings, the visual process of making maps and illustrations, and the conversations that happen between worldbuilders that spur us all on to richer ideas are all very appealing to her. She thinks that all people are creative and sees creative confidence come out the most strongly in worldb...
Episode 4 Featuring Jody Aberdeen
December 11, 2019 14:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBJody Aberdeen is a writer, storyteller, and professional ghostwriter. He is the indie author of the sci-fi romance novel “Convergence”, the novella “Gone Lost”, and the upcoming story “Last Variations of Paris”. He is also a former logistics professional, call centre concierge, government employee, bookstore worker, one time commercial actor, and 30 year old frat boy (the good kind). Jody is also the host of the Ghostwriter and Pup Podcast, frequently recorded from his home in Hami...
Episode 3 Featuring Lisa McDonald
December 04, 2019 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBBorn and raised in Edmonton, now living in Casper, Wyoming with a Ukrainian heart! Lisa has been involved in all things Ukrainian since birth. She took Ukrainian language Saturday school, Ukrainian dance, was involved with a Ukrainian Youth group, Ukrainian church and even owned a Ukrainian bar for 3 years in Edmonton. She has a Bachelor of Education degree from the U of A with a minor in Ukrainian language and then was working on her Masters in Ukrainian Folklore when she met a nic...
Episode 2 with Novalee Wilder
November 27, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBNovalee Wilder is a Danish actress and artist turned professional numerologist and writer living in Los Angeles. She is an alumna of the William Esper Studio in NYC, and a certified Match Numerologist from the Institute of Numerology, Denmark. From twelve-step programs to internationally acclaimed professional training and Balinese mask workshops, Novalee has explored personal growth techniques and the keys to understanding and illuminating the human condition through all her work....
The Creative Soul Healing Podcast Episode 1 featuring Kriket: Find the path for your feet to tread
November 20, 2019 14:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBKriket has been practicing shamanism in Edmonton for almost 25 years. She practices the Medicine of her Grandmother and family from Finland. Her interest in stories and Myths from around the world sparked when she began to experience shamanic trances. She shared her intense desire to learn and teach through a shamanic drumming circle she led for 15 years. During this time she listened intently to the journeys of others, reporting their visual and visceral experiences they had when e...
Episode 1 with Kriket
November 20, 2019 14:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBKriket has been practicing shamanism in Edmonton for almost 25 years. She practices the Medicine of her Grandmother and family from Finland. Her interest in stories and Myths from around the world sparked when she began to experience shamanic trances. She shared her intense desire to learn and teach through a shamanic drumming circle she led for 15 years. During this time she listened intently to the journeys of others, reporting their visual and visceral experiences they had when entranced ...