*Me attending graduation online for my Masters Therapeutic Arts Practice, after a 15 year study journey ✨*

🤘🌟☺️ I believe our curiosity and joys are beckoning pathways to a soulful, purposeful life.

Walking our soul path leads to the deepest, richest and most satisfying experiences that make our life worth living. But how to we access this unseen information, and why are we not encouraged to lean into our soul needs, as much as our financial and material needs?

We currently live in a time where work and productivity are valued over nourishing (and listening to) the callings of our soul. Our soul path is also very personal and we have often not been taught how to hear, feel or sense it. So, we use our brain to lead us instead - which is an important organ of the body, but doesn’t have full access to the depth and complexity of our soul language.

It can be so easy to tell ourselves we’re too old, too young, too much, or not enough, to go after the dreams living deep within our soul-heart. But when we think of our soul as the meeting point between our body and the Creative Spirit that runs through all things (God, Goddess, Universe, whatever you like to call Them), then we know that our soul is always with us … and it’s never to late to tune in and start co-creating a meaningful life together.

My Soul Path Journey into Art Therapy

Getting to the end of my Masters was a 15 year journey. From that very first time I enrolled in a graduate certificate in Art Therapy, right through to the sitting here drawing to my Masters’ Graduation ceremony: My life has never been short of ups and downs.

In that 15 year period I got married, had a child, experienced 3 major burnouts, lost loved ones, navigated a divorce, break ups, solo parenting, discovered I was ADHD and Autistic and too many other challenges to count.

And, I kept coming back to it. My curiosity and joy for therapeutic art-making.

I’d say, my soul calling has always been there, my whole life.

Like how as a child I would write and illustrate books and leave them in the year 2 class library for others to feel inspired by
Or when in high school, I changed my subjects so I could do art right through to grade 12, because it FELT GOOD
Or how when I travelled through Europe in my early 20’s, I saw how art was much more embedded in daily culture and life that it inspired me to do the same back home
Or how I decided to move down to Melbourne and study visual art at TAFE, to quench this thirst
Or how then I attended a 1 day art therapy course as part of an employment traineeship with a youth magazine - a tingling feeling, a longing unleashed

Something was linking all these life decisions together - like a wild, untamable thread of importance and curiosity and joy following inside me, beckoning my forth:

Soul path as A CALLING …. Try This

I believe our whispers of intrigue and desire, are all callings from our souls.

When these whispers, threads, internal daydreams, visercal, body-sense longings, synchronicities, homecoming-yet-exciting vibe experiences: when these go on for years, you can be sure it’s a soul calling worth following.

Have you had this sense before? A calling-forth niggle that just won’t go away, perhaps from the tummy, with a pull-feeling to venture outwards into new territory? Or a fluttery energetic sense in the heart space sense that feels like both a quickening, and also an incoming relief? Maybe recurring dreams or vision imagery that feels like an important story, guiding you?

These are our soul whispers.

*Creating a sanctuary of rest and rejuvenation using LEGO habitats*

The Practicalities of Following Soul Calls

Soul callings aren’t here to mess our lives up, although some major shuffling might need to take place for big changes. But since the soul is the meeting point between our body and The Universe, our callings arise to be lived, and so we will be guided with each unfold.

Trust and courage are required to step into our soul calling, and they will be cultivated on our journey.

When we take steps on the unfolding of our soul calling, baby step by baby step, it may not always make linear sense. In fact, the soul is wild and free, so it’s likely that the steps may appear non-linear and still challenging at times. But it will always feel worth it. Meaningful. And with enough energetic nourishment to keep you going when life gets hard on the journey (because these moments are soul deepenings too!)

Soul callings are here as the link to our depth of purpose as in individual on this planet - our unique and particular way of contributing to evolution via our gifts and skills and greatest passions.

Imagine what our world could be like, if following our soul path was the driver of our careers and life choices? How many more fulfilled people, places, animals, planets and ecosystems would there be, from people living in alignment with their most treasured gifts?

We may need supports and to take breaks as we grow into our new paths, and this too is all part of it. Learning our capacity and needs and strengths are important tools in this life.

Experience Soulful Creativity

If you’d love to connect with me on your creative, soulful path, I have some beautiful, nourishing art workshops coming up HERE.

Creativity is a wonderful way to bring soul inklings to the surface, enabling us to see our path and meaningful direction more clearly, and from a more artfully regulated, embodied state, where we can also understand our needs for self-nourishment.

Whatever we choose in this life, let’s make the most of the time and resources we have to catch our dreams. It won’t stop challenges from happening, but it opens our bandwidth and bolsters our capacity to process the hard times, when we’re instilling our life with experiences we genuinely love 💖🌟💫✨🎨