About me
I examine trauma patterns and childhood wounding through the lens of art, storytelling, and my own experiences.
Here’s the thing.
I’ve always been drawn to things that are “harder” to love.
These are the parts in us that are stiff, stubborn, bent out of shape, and unyielding.
They seem near impossible to live with. Let alone love.
But love isn’t meant to be easy.
It’s the medicine that stings when you pour it over a wound. Yet it’s the thing that heals you.
CONFRONTING MY DEMONS AND LEARNING TO LOVE THEM
After dabbling in a LOT of healing modalities, I found a pattern. An aggression:
“Destroy your trauma”, “kill your ego”, “slay your demons”, “get rid of your [insert trait here]”…
This approach seemed very HOSTILE to me, and I felt like I was fighting myself all over again.
So I developed my own LOVING approach to shadow work that isn’t going to fuel your self loathing or make you feel like you need to be “fixed”.
ENTER PLAYFUL LINES
It is my calling to wrestle up love for these “hard-to-love” parts.
We use them as our scapegoats.
But they are just the versions of us that we rejected.
And they just want in.
And so, I created Playful Lines.
*Playful because shadow work can go a lot farther when it uses PLAY.
(Shadow Play, if you will)
**And “playful lines” signify those squiggly lines that seem to have no end or beginning.
Much like healing.
About me
I examine trauma patterns and childhood wounding through the lens of art, storytelling, and my own experiences.
Here’s the thing.
I’ve always been drawn to things that are “harder” to love.
These are the parts in us that are stiff, stubborn, bent out of shape, and unyielding.
They seem near impossible to live with. Let alone love.
But love isn’t meant to be easy.
It’s the medicine that stings when you pour it over a wound. Yet it’s the thing that heals you.
CONFRONTING MY DEMONS (AND LEARNING TO LOVE THEM)
After dabbling in a LOT of healing modalities, I found a pattern. An aggression:
“Destroy your trauma”, “kill your ego”, “slay your demons”, “get rid of your [insert trait here]”…
This approach seemed very HOSTILE to me, and I felt like I was fighting myself all over again.
So I developed my own LOVING approach to shadow work that isn’t going to fuel your self loathing or make you feel like you need to be “fixed”.
ENTER PLAYFUL LINES
It is my calling to wrestle up love for these “hard-to-love” parts.
We use them as our scapegoats.
But they are just the versions of us that we rejected.
And they just want in.
And so, I created Playful Lines.
*Playful because shadow work can go a lot farther when it uses PLAY.
(Shadow Play, if you will)
**And “playful lines” signify those squiggly lines that seem to have no end or beginning.
Much like healing.
