Alchemizing our pathway

What a wonderful weekend spend with the sistarhood! In painting our Medicine in Apothecary, we alchemize our pathway of access to inner knowing, using creativity to consciously transmute old stories.

Serpentine Path

In talk therapy, we can spend hours, months, even years reflecting and analyzing ... until the cows come home!

When we add inquiry and creative processes, a desired shift becomes actionable - you're ’re not just talking about your life, you can transform it!

Dance of color

In Medicine painting, we take energetic conditions, and learn together how to move that energy through, contain it, catalyse and change it, distil it, and bottle it. And at the end, we have a medicine cabinet of our own making.

This metaphor of self-as-container opens a new layer of insight. It invites you to explore the architecture of your being—not as something solid and fixed, but as something spacious, sacred, and capable of holding multitudes. What am I holding now? What might better serve me?

What goes here?
Journal prompts:

What 2-3 stories currently hold me back?
Compost and heat them up to alchemize - Metacognative sketch: scribble! Focus on desired shift and doodle for 5 minutes
What wants to move through me?
What superpower is now available?

I choose choose my music and the dance; I'm the Medicine the world needs!

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