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What is Soul Woven?
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Soul Woven began in me long before I had a name for it.

It began when I was a child trying to stay connected to myself in a world that didn't feel safe,

a world where I often felt invisible to the people around me.

From the time I was very young, I made things.

I drew and painted.

I made clothing for my dolls and little houses for them to live in.

I decorated every inch of my room because I needed to surround myself with my own energy.

I didn't think of it that way then.

I only knew that making helped me feel more real, more present,

more connected to something in myself I couldn't explain.

As I grew older, the forms changed, but the need stayed the same.

I wrote poetry when I was old enough to write.

I journaled. I sewed. I stacked rocks. I made jewelry. I painted and wrote endlessly.

I was always reaching for a language that could express who I was, and that language was never limited to words.

Sometimes it came through color.

Sometimes through texture, line, form, cloth, symbols, stones, images, movement, or the body itself.

It was endless then, and it still is.

Being a creator has never belonged to one medium for me.

Each thing I made became a thread of connection to myself and to what I knew to be real and true.

Even when I worked as a coach and trainer, using the body as the place

where awareness and transformation happened, that was no less my art than painting or cloth.

The body was another language.

Another way of listening.

Another way of remembering.

That's what Soul Woven is.

Soul Woven creates spaces where women can remember who they are

through story, image, cloth, symbol, and the language of their own body.

It is not one object, one medium, or one offering.

It is the connection between everything I make and everything I live.

Writing, painting, cloth, image, body, symbol, and story all help me get closer to what is true in me.

They help me understand what I am feeling, what I am living, and what parts of myself are asking to be seen again.

When I write reflections, they are my way of digesting what life puts in my path.

They help me see what I know, what I'm still learning, and what is being newly revealed.

When I paint, images often carry something before I can name it.

When I work with fabric, the remembering moves through touch, weight, softness, and the need to feel held.

When I make something with my hands, I'm not only creating an object.

I am following a thread back toward myself.

And when I work with others, that same thread is still present.

The words I speak, the pieces I choose, the designs I create, the portraits I paint —

all of them come from the same place.

What I speak for myself is often connected to something someone else needs to hear.

What I create for another person still carries a piece of my own thread.

That is the weave.

Soul Woven is about remembering through image, cloth, hands, body, words, texture, color, symbol, and lived experience.

None of it is separate. It is all part of the same tapestry.

A living process of returning to what is true.

A way of making visible what has been hidden.

A way of finding ourselves again through the many languages the soul uses to speak.

CONTINUE THE THREAD

→ Enter the Reflections

→ Explore Remembering Myself

→ View the Art

→ Explore Textiles

→ Paint From Your Soul


→ If you don't know where to begin, Begin Here

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