Intentional Creativity(R) Linneage

Over holiday 2015, I consciously committed to following my path and my passion in whatever form that might be. I began doing daily watercolor doodles, praying for my purpose and joy to emerge, as well as enrolling in an online year-long healing/painting class with Alena Hennessay Over holiday 2016, I was in Woman Unleashed Retreat sponsored by Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici, drinking in all the amazing teachings.
When Shiloh Sophia offered her class, I felt an instant recognition and saw the familiar drum from my shamanic upbringing as well as being introduced to the Story of the Red Thread. I have always had in my art area out in the open red embroidery floss, and a strong connection to it though I did not understand why. During Shiloh’s class online, I tied some on my wrist and felt this surge of energy returning to the mysteries of Jen – e.g. embarking on self-discovery with a quickening, not being crazy, and permission to discover myself further.
I signed up for Shiloh’s newsletter, and towards end of January committed to Imagining online class she offered as I had watched enough of her videos to determine that she walked with integrity as a teacher, and had insight I could learn from. From Woman Unleashed, I also benefitted a lot from Elayne Kalila Doughty and Corin Cartagena Grillo. Corin helped in creating a daily prayer/meditation including invoking the help of Archangels, and asking for delightful amazing things to happen and helping me to shine my light fully at this time to fullfil my soul’s purpose.
A few weeks later my own process had been speeding up and I realized I wanted to teach art to people committed to themselves and committed to uncovering their suffering and deliberately changing their lives. A little bit later I was able to distill what feels like my life time purpose/mission statement to:
I want to help people through art to shift their wound being a place of suffering to a place of power.
I am a survivor of incest through my grandfather who molested me from ages 3 to 7. He also was a skilled watercolorist, and for some reason taught me with professional paints starting at age three too. Having the abuse and art so tightly mingled together, it was a massive breakthrough for me to use watercolors daily in 2015 and to post them on facebook to be seen. Initially I felt him inside of me as I painted, but I moved through it, and now I have reclaimed it as my own. And this experience ties into my path and desire to help others through art, using art as a portal to create deliberate change and connection to the self and Spirit. I was delighted to discover my life calling finally, and felt a big release of energy.
I deeply regretted not discovering this sooner, and wanted to accelerate my journey and so asked myself if anyone would be teaching what I needed, and I immediately thought of Shiloh Sophia and searched her web site. And lo’ there it was, and it looked totally perfect! But enrollment was closed. I thought I would ask if there was space, and if there was, I promised myself that I would commit to the class regardless of anything else. And I got an email back a few hours later from Shiloh saying my timing was divine, and she was just crafting an email to open it up for five more participants.
I was super excited and enrolled as fast as I could though it was kind of crazy as I knew so little about Shiloh’s methods or exactly what the class was. I was a little nervous about the cost, and nervous during the interview and I was continuously impressed with the integrity, transparency and clear expectations/boundaries for the enrollment (including Sarah who is wonderful to work with).
As I participate in the classes, there are non-stop gems of learning on so many levels. I have no regrets and am very grateful Shiloh accepted me into the program, and very grateful for all the other students and staff in the program. Big heart-filled thanks!