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Long before I began my graduate studies in Art Therapy and Counseling, after completing my BFA in multidisciplinary art, I worked for a company that offered Paint & Sip workshops. In this popular format, a group gathers together – often in a bar or restaurant – and everyone recreates the same painting step-by-step under the guidance of an instructor, usually with a glass of wine or tea in hand and a relaxed, social atmosphere. It’s fun, social, and lighthearted – but even the

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the word healing. It’s everywhere - in therapy, in conversations, in books, in the way we talk about growth. It’s a word we hold with so much hope, as if it contains the promise of becoming whole again. But sometimes I wonder - what does it actually mean? When something painful happens, the first thing we want to do is make it stop. We want to fix it, soothe it, move past it. Pain makes us restless. It asks questions we don’t want to answ