This channel is about art and healing. I am an artist. I mainly paint portraits using natural dyes and inks that I make myself by foraging plants from the landscape around me. My life has been largely about healing and connecting with a Higher Reality through prayer, and connection with the Natural world. I believe that art is like a portal we can enter where we are able to channel a state of being that is deeply healing.
In my early life, I struggled a lot with depression. I grew up in a dysfunctional and abusive household and I also believe that the culture I live in, (western mainstream American/ European culture) is abusive in many ways as well. It took many years and a lot of work to reconnect with my own autonomy and my true self and to learn to live from that place.
I ended up working in the mental health field for many years and then attending graduate school for art therapy and clinical counseling. This channel is a combination of all these things. suzannejoyteune.com.