Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi
Learn How the Creative Process Nourishes & Supports You!
RE-discover your inner artist!
- RECOGNIZE physical, mental and emotional stress
- RELEASE hidden stress from your mind and body
- RECOVER from stressful environments and events
- RECEIVE Insights
- REWIRE your stress response
- REDUCE external and internal stressors
- RESTORE emotional resilience and well-being
Barbara guides you through a variety of fun, creative processes using paint, journaling, collage, guided imagery and more.
She uses an open-ended sensory-based process, so you don't need ANY special skill
or talent to benefit. You don't need a studio or long durations of time for these simple techniques to work. You can start at your kitchen table with simple supplies that you already have on hand, in just a few minutes a day.
So who is barbara anyway?
If you're feeling stressed, exhausted, anxious, or disengaged, and are ready to create better mental, emotional and physical health, and well-being, I'm your go-to girl!
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Barbara Gini. I'm an author, Mind/Body Educator and Healing Arts Practitioner. Some refer to me as the "Self-Care Sherpa".
I guide busy women through various creative processes so they can use them as a tool to rest and recover from the intensity of everyday life.
I teach you how to recognize, reduce and release stress symptoms and "stress stories" from your mind, body, and soul, and express them in a healthy way through art-based means, so you can live, love, and work with more energy, presence, and enthusiasm.
Rather than covering and burying stressful experiences, (as if to "paint" right over top of them) I help you acknowledge, express and create a living mosaic out of them. This is especially useful for child professionals, service staff, caregivers and other highly sensitive people.
I'm a retired educator (autism support), creative arts camp facilitator, and former spa manager. I'm a domestic abuse survivor and an End-of-Life Doula in Training. For 14 years I operated a home-keeping and event staffing company (up until 2020) and I've done service and care work my entire professional life. I understand the urgent and growing need for stress recovery and healing in this noisy and chaotic world.
I've also experienced the healing power of art first-hand.
Stress Can Hide in the Body
I've been a student and teacher of Mind/Body Medicine since the late 1990s, but I've not always applied the concepts. In fact, I was one of those who rolled their eyes and chuckled when someone suggested I "manage my stress". That is until I realized that the joke was on me! I wound up with crippling migraines and insomnia. I was a single parent with two small sons, and small business that ran me instead of me running it.
I didn't realize that when stressful experiences are not resolved or fully dealt with, that we accidentally create "stress stories" that hide in the mind and body. I had no idea that the symptoms I was experiencing were actually my hidden and unresolved stress coming to the surface. That is why "managing" stress rarely works. It only deals with surface stress. We need to find where our stress hides, resolve it, then release it. Then we need to shield ourselves from external stress so we don't internalize it over again.
Later, my career as a salon manager, my second divorce and being a single parent again, led me to learn, study and understand stress holistically. While we can usually pinpoint daily surface stress, we don't realize that there is unresolved stress beneath the surface that we need to work with in order to restore and maintain our health and well-being. I've learned this the hard way and want to share with you what I've learned.
Creative open-ended art has been my Oasis over these last thirty-five years. It's been the most effective way for me to express, process and release hidden (and not-so-hidden) stress. I want to invite you to learn how to do this too, as quickly, easily, and naturally as possible, without any additional stress using simple household supplies.
Dragonfly Watercolor meditation by B.Gini. Click Here to Go to the Art Oasis
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