-Read Part 1- Let the fury fly For the first time, one after the other, I see people rage, scream, rant, rave, stomp, kick, cry, make sounds and move in ways I haven’t seen before. This is the individual process work we each enter into, as the Shalom Retreat weekend progresses. We all do this […]
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A Right to Rage
**Trigger Warning: This beautifully told story relates childhood physical abuse, and a journey to healing and power. If this is a trigger for you, please skip past the italics to bypass explicit scenes.** My mother’s cold grip yanks me from my makeshift schoolhouse. She places me on my twin canopy bed, where I stand arms […]
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
She Lived So many of us have survived hardships and pain in our lives. Some of us came into the world and early on had to learn how to survive, others have dealt with difficulties in their adult lives, surviving trauma, cancer, or other illnesses and heartbreak. It’s important to remember that you lived. “She […]
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
Serene Warrior She is a warrior but she has come to a place of acceptance and peace within herself. Life just keeps unfolding for her in magical ways. She trusts that all will be well and yet she is ready if the need arises to step into her warrior spirit.
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
Courage of the Heart This is a portrait of courage, courage of the heart. It takes courage to lean on someone and to allow someone to lean on you and yet it is perhaps one of the most powerful things we can do.
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
Spirit Girl 1 This is the first Spirit Girl. She was created for a beautiful and vibrant woman who is battling ovarian cancer. She was my first experience in creating a spirit girl for someone, a process in which I interview the person for whom the painting is commissioned, and then paint the image that […]