Utilizing my stencils with watercolors to create enjoyable floral collage paper

“Even when life feels heavy, there are still moments that carry beauty.” — The Practice of Healing by Chris Bharnes

I’ve been studying The Practice of Healing by Chris Bharnes, and I can truthfully say it has settled deep into my coronary heart. It feels as if so most of the phrases have been written only for this season of my life.

This quote stayed with me all week. I discovered myself repeating it time and again, letting it sink in a bit deeper every time. Eventually, I did what I all the time appear to do when phrases develop into too huge to carry—I took them to my journal.

I spoke to them with paint and watercolor.

I’ve been looking for methods to carry watercolor extra naturally into my mixed-media observe, and this web page was such a good looking shock. I reached for a favourite stencil, added watercolor, and watched the layers unfold in methods I hadn’t anticipated. It felt playful, peaceable, and precisely what my coronary heart wanted.

As I labored, layer by layer, I spotted this inventive time had develop into a kind of lovely moments hidden contained in the heaviness. A small reminder that therapeutic doesn’t all the time arrive in the way in which we expect. Sometimes it comes from the straightforward act of displaying up.

I walked away from my desk feeling just a bit lighter than after I began.

If I might rewrite Chris’s quote, I feel it will sound one thing like this:

“Even when life feels heavy, pick up a paintbrush, splash some paint around, and you’ll discover moments that carry beauty.”

I hope you benefit from the course of, discover your personal moments of magnificence, and all the time know that you’re liked.