Category: Reflection


  • Intentionality – the holiday spirit

    If youโ€™re feeling stretched this holiday season between the life youโ€™re leaving and the one youโ€™re stepping into, I hope you give yourself a moment to appreciate whatโ€™s already in your hands. Trust the process. ย Thereโ€™s more there than you think.

  • Adversity – a part of life

    Ninety days isnโ€™t much in the grand scheme of life โ€” but when you show up every single day, even in small ways, it becomes its own kind of transformation.

  • Esteem

    Honoring the fallen, creating for the living, and staying grateful for every step in between.

  • Nontoxic control

    Today wasnโ€™t comfortable. But it was needed. It was about trusting the processโ€”and it reminded me that strength isnโ€™t just holding the line. Sometimes itโ€™s knowing when to soften, when to speak up, and when to finally feel what youโ€™ve been carrying.

  • Resistance

    Understanding the path forward doesnโ€™t magically clear the debris inside. Knowing what needs to change doesnโ€™t guarantee the feelings will cooperate. But Iโ€™m learning that this in-between space โ€” the uncomfortable, chaotic, conflicting middle โ€” is where real growth happens.

  • You Canโ€™t Go Back

    The First Time I Thought of Myself as an Adult During group therapy this week something someone shared brought up a memory I had not thought about in decades. I revisited this memory that shaped how I see myself even now. It was the first time I truly felt like an adult. I was stationed…

  • Blog Series: Revival #3 โ€” Resilience

    In art and in life, rebuilding starts when we stop clinging to what no longer serves โ€” and start shaping something new from what remains. Every healed tattoo, every fresh design, carries that truth. Rebuild isnโ€™t just repair; itโ€™s transformation โ€” the art of turning what once held us back into something that moves us…

  • Worth the Price

    Jung said, โ€œUntil you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.โ€ Our subconscious anchors us โ€” but sometimes it also traps us.

  • Blog Series: Revival – #2 Rebuild

    In art and in life, rebuilding starts when we stop clinging to what no longer serves โ€” and start shaping something new from what remains. Every healed tattoo, every fresh design, carries that truth. Rebuild isnโ€™t just repair; itโ€™s transformation โ€” the art of turning what once held us back into something that moves us…

  • Vacant – Emotional space available

    Art and tattoos give us a healthy way to process emotions โ€” to explore those empty rooms within us and decide what we want to fill them with.