Sam Goodlet is a British illustrator and all round creative and mental health advocate. Brought up in the ancient kingdom of Wessex, she studied in the wild Cornwall and lives in a landscape peppered with stone circles and burial mounds older …
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“I like to interview artists who intentionally create art that has an uplifting message. I call this kind of art Healing Art. I believe art can be healing in 2 ways- through the creative process before it is finished or from meditating on the message of the finished piece.”
Interviews with My Favorite Artists
Interview with Samantha Goodlet
Interview with Sonia Koch
Sonia Koch was born in Arica, Chili in 1968. At age 18 she moved to Santiago to study at the University of Chili where she received a degree in Design. Her first solo art exhibition: Suenos de Mujer, was in 2002. Since then she has participated …
Interview with Carol Omer
Carol Omer is an Artist and Certified Life Coach from South Australia. She specializes in coaching for creativity and women's empowerment tools. Her Mandala coaching/colouring book,The Big Girls Little Coloring Book, is published in several …
Lessons in Unconditional Self Love
Obstacles of self-love #3: The false belief that we are nothing
The false believe that we are nothing blocks the flow of unconditional self-love. But if we could see that the reason why we think that we are nothing is because unhealthy people from our past convinced us of this, by the way they spoke to us and …
Obstacle of self-love #2: Depression
I have experienced frequent bouts of depression all through my life. When it has gotten really bad, I have asked myself, “What does my life matter? Why bother?” After decades of asking myself this question, I have finally found my answer. My Life …
Obstacles of self-love #1: The belief that self-love is selfish & wrong
The believe that self-love is selfish and wrong blocks the flow of self-love. I think one reason why people hold onto this believe is because they’re not aware that there are two kinds of self-love. There is ego-based self-love which is a …
“Inspiration to paint my art comes from the desire to look at life differently. When I am faced with a problem, I search my spiritual studies and my collected wisdom for advice. Once I realize the advice that I need to take, I think of the symbolism to convey that message and that is what I paint.”
I'm Rita Loyd. The inspiration to paint healing art came to me in 1996 as a way to cope with chronic fatigue syndrome.
When I first began to paint nurturing art, I didn’t know that my art was going to be about self-love.
I now feel that I know the “recipe” for unconditional self-love and when I apply that recipe to my life I am able to shift from a place of negativity and defeat to a place of healing and empowerment.
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