Writing & Art:
Creative practice as a pathway to generational healing
Welcome to a Journey of Creative Healing
There is a wellspring of wisdom within you, waiting to flow. Creativity is not just about making art; it is a profound and transformative way to process pain, tell untold stories, and mend the fractures that run through generations. By embracing creative practices, we have the power to alchemize grief, honor resilience, and pave a pathway of healing that ripples outward to those who came before us and those yet to come.
The Legacy of Unspoken Stories
Generational trauma often lives in silence—passed down through actions, beliefs, and patterns we don’t fully understand. It shows up in the way we protect ourselves, the ways we love, and the boundaries we fail to set. But these stories don’t have to remain unspoken. Creative practices give us the tools to:
Break Cycles: Use writing, painting, music, or movement to unearth and release unprocessed emotions.
Reclaim Power: Transform inherited pain into a new narrative of strength and possibility.
Honor Resilience: Pay homage to the generations before us by acknowledging their struggles and celebrating their courage.
Creativity Meets Healing
Through mindful creative expression, we reconnect with our bodies, emotions, and stories. It’s not about perfection; it’s about presence. Whether you’re journaling your deepest truths, painting your dreams, or dancing your heartache, creativity allows us to:
Reconnect: Bridge the gap between our conscious minds and our embodied experiences.
Release: Let go of what no longer serves us and make space for what nourishes us.
Reimagine: Craft a new legacy of love, resilience, and joy for future generations.
Your Practice, Your Pathway
Healing through creativity is deeply personal. It can look like:
Writing letters to your younger self or future descendants.
Creating a visual timeline of your family’s history, honoring moments of strength and struggle.
Using movement or dance to express emotions words cannot capture.
Building rituals of gratitude and storytelling with your loved ones.
A Ripple Effect of Healing
When you engage in creative healing, you’re not just transforming your own life—you’re influencing those around you. Children learn to process emotions by watching us do the same. Partners feel the safety of our boundaries. Families benefit from the courage we show in breaking harmful cycles. Every stroke of the pen, every brush of color, and every note of music becomes an act of healing for the whole.
Begin Your Journey
Whether you’re an artist or someone who’s never picked up a paintbrush, this practice is for you. Creativity is not about talent; it’s about allowing yourself to feel, express, and heal.
Start today. Take a deep breath, pick up your tools, and create the future you want to see.
Because healing is possible, and the story doesn’t end here—it begins with you.
Thrown from the Nest
A Memoir of Belonging, Recovery, and Generational Healing after Adoption
About the book:
As an adoptee, all Cynthia has ever wanted is to be the mom she didn’t get to have.
But navigating single motherhood amidst her ex-husband’s mental illness, and his constant accusations and threats of self-harm, is more than her heart can bear. During her final year of classroom teaching, when her daughter is still a toddler, her spirit finally cracks. Within a single semester, she unravels into crippling anxiety, panic attacks, job loss, illness, a back injury that temporarily confined her to a wheelchair, and addiction. Then, when she tries meditation in an effort to make peace with her fears, she is battered by images of violence and pre-verbal memories of men that paralyze her with terror and add fuel to her rage.
When she discovers the intersection of trauma-sensitive mindfulness and somatic psychotherapy, she finally finds effective tools for healing her attachment wounds and her relationship with herself. After symbolically annihilating her mother’s attacker on the dance floor, Cynthia embarks upon a journey of reclaiming her power that takes her to the dream world, through the “death cave,” and into the desert where she comes face to face with the dark masculine inside herself, and an epic battle rages.
Thrown from the Nest is a story about fierce dedication to motherhood that triumphs over abuse and interrupting the cycle of generational trauma by choosing radical kindness, even towards those who have hurt her the most.
Release Date TBD: Currently Seeking Literary Representation
Out of Grace
An Extraordinary Journey Through Guatemala’s Haunted Highlands
Guatemala City is officially classified as one of the most dangerous cities in the Americas, where murders make daily headlines, and men hiss at women the same way they hiss at dogs. Here, in the shadow of the country’s many volcanoes, a 22-year-old anthropologist embarks upon her Fulbright research—unraveling the mysteries of the Mayan Highlands, and unexpectedly losing her long-held Christian faith. After a weekend climb of the Pacaya Volcano turns tragic, the author struggles to shake the helplessness and fear that haunt her. In the midst of searching for a new faith, she discovers the bewildering town of San Pedro la Laguna—a place where Mayan culture collides with globalization and a tourism industry fueled by the drug trade. As she navigates her own spiritual crisis, Cynthia is drawn to explore the haunting beauty of the rugged highlands, the stories of the Tz’utuji’il people, and their connection to the land. This fast-paced narrative and anthropological field study is at once an adventure, a coming of age story, an exploration of spirituality, and a reflection upon the shadow of fear in all our lives.
