Hi, I’m Beth.
I spent most of my adulthood believing that nothing creative was ever going to come from me.
Then a little over 10 years ago, I began exploring with various art media.
By the time I retired from teaching five years ago, I had found my niche. I was regularly painting in acrylics and becoming really passionate about working with mixed media.
When I met Nancy, I had gotten away from my regular art practice and didn’t know how to get myself back to it. I was really missing it. So my original goal was to get back to creating, but it became evident in our initial meeting that my housekeeping habits were in my way.
Nancy and I worked together to shift my shame and self judgement about the house. The more progress I made in that area, the easier it became to allow myself to create anyway.
I saw many other gains throughout my work with Nancy. One is that I focused on being gentle with myself, and I realized that often, even when I thought I was being kind, I could still be even more gentle.
I could be even more on my own side. Nancy’s questions and guidance empowered me to find new and solid ways to come back to myself and what was good for me.
Another gain is that now, more and more often, I remember that what really matters is how I feel while I’m doing things.
In theory, I knew those things, but working with Nancy in this program has really reinforced it so that I feel like I know it differently now in my soul and in my heart than I did at the beginning of this program.
But of all the gains that I had during this program, the biggest and most influential thing was in Nancy’s approach to working with me. Not only did Nancy not cookie cutter me—like there was no lockstep, this is the next thing we’re gonna do—she also made me feel so safe and so comfortable being exactly who I am, exactly where I am in this moment, that in our six sessions together, I found myself sharing details with Nancy that I haven’t even shared with my therapist of over 10 years.
The level of trust that Nancy created for me was beyond anything I could have imagined, and I truly believe that that deep sense of safety made everything that I got out of this program possible.
I would also absolutely recommend Nancy to others. Working with her has taken me to places and to depths that I did not expect.
I would recommend her to anybody who wants a different relationship with their creativity, but I would also recommend Nancy to anybody who wants a shift in their relationship with themselves.