In this episode, I open up about my spiritual awakening, healing journey, dark night of the soul experiences that happened over 5 years. I share how those deep experiences shifted my art practice in profound ways. I talk about discovering all kinds of uncomfortable things during this process including attachment styles (I was avoidant to a T), emotional regulation, distress tolerance, highly sensitive people, anger and different emotions and my relationship to them, codependency, conditioning from family structures, society, culture, and media and the impact that conditioning has on our entire being, coping mechanisms, limiting beliefs, nervous system activation, inner child, reparenting, self-soothing, alcohol as a coping mechanism, the unconscious mind, shadow work, abstract and concrete thinking, childhood emotional neglect, enmeshment, emotional addiction, physic realms/abilities, empathy, past lives/akashic records reading, spirit guides, states of change, the ego, disassociation, OCD, fear, trauma, people pleasing, social anxiety, epigenetics, mysticism, spirituality vs. religion, visual guided meditation...so many things! I discovered intimately how art can be a deep healing tool and healing experience.  Resources: -Dr. Nicole LaPera, The Holistic Psychologist on Instagram and her website -Myree Morsi, trauma therapist and spiritual teacher -The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron -The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner -The Dark Side of Light Chasers by Debbie Ford -Therapy Chat podcast -Information about attachment theory Emma Freeman is a queer mixed media artist and teaching artist based in Wisconsin in the United States. She works with textiles, fibers, book making, mark making and other mediums. Her process is experimental, spiritual, meditative and tactile. You can see her work at www.emmafreemandesigns.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/emmafreemandesigns.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/emma-freeman-art/message