Hearing Me
BIGPublished October 13, 2010 at 5:05 pm 2 CommentsOn the last week of my Big A Fearless Painting Adventure Workshop I realized how important the workshop was to me. It was allowing me to hear my voice in the sea of other voices in my life. Thank God there is a continuation of this workshop called Tribe because I need more of this adventure painting in my life.
For the last week of big I hung everything I had done so far in BIG on my stairway landing (something I’ve never done) and sat there. And sat there – I wasn’t inspired to paint I just wanted to soak it all in. Honestly I didn’t know how to put words to what I was feeling, let alone paint it but I just started…
Started with a head and a shape I thought was hair – that turned into hands. As soon as the hands were there and the spiral on the neck I recognized it…Big was allowing me to heal…feel…be, so much. Most importantly it was allowing me to HEAR MYSELF my soul. To make friends with me…me right here in the present not the future me that I want to or feel pressure to be.
Me trying to hear my own voice, my heart in a sea of other voices and exceptions. I’m starting to see I am worth listening to…
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Hi! I found you over at Connie’s blog that featured your work from the BIG workshop. Love your paintings! Especially the last image in this post. Amazing! I just signed up for the BIG and am excited and nervous for it!
I look forward to seeing more of your work!
Hi Cathy,
Thank you for your wonderful comment. SO glad you signed up the BIG workshop – it is really amazing, you are going to love it. The nerves go away after the first week – Connie is so relaxed you can’t help but relax too. For me, knowing “the only wrong way to paint in BIG is not to paint at all” – took so much pressure off. Please keep intouch – I visited your wonderful artsy butterfly site and I look forward to following your Big journey on there. Talk to you soon.
Sarah