I have been making art for well over a decade. It started as little sketches in my dream journal, they seemed more efficient and descriptive than words sometimes. Rather than writing, “there was a cross road, plus roads going in…
Are you a psychotherapist interested in working from a more soulful perspective? I am offering a Depth Oriented Clinical Consultation Group in Petaluma beginning in January. In an era of quick fixes, human relatedness can be eclipsed by pressures to…
I am pleased to announce that I will be facilitating a day of Alchemical Art at the CG Jung Institute of SanFrancisco. This day will be devoted to exploring how symbols emerge into consciousness. (Read more about the definition of symbols http://feliciamattoshepard.com/is-it-a-sign-or-a-symbol/)…
The Alchemists considered the Sun to be a symbol for the Divine spark that lives in the human. How does the Divine appear in you? To you? Through you? On the Summer Solstice, when the Sun lingers at the height…
In 2004, I began drawing images from my dreams. It wasn’t that I decided to do this, it was more like the images insisted that I draw them. As I drew, my thinking mind quieted and another intelligence began to…
Female sexual desire. Amazing how provocative this topic is. For the past several years, I have taught a workshop entitled Uncovering Desire, which is designed for woman who struggle with low sexual desire. I remember when I first posted this…
Have you noticed that there is a dance craze going on? Conscious dance, Swing dance, Flash Mob, Zumba –these various dance forms are popping up everywhere from yoga studios to health clubs to public parks. Perhaps it shouldn’t be a…
What if you approached 2013 with a creative spin on the old New Year’s Resolution? What if you took the attitude that it wasn’t about changing or improving yourself, but about becoming more of yourself? This way of thinking is…
Some years ago, in a class on Shamanism, Angeles Arrien, said, “If the same message shows up three times, pay attention.” I have heeded this advice and it has often proven to be worthwhile. So today, I have spent the…
I generally don’t seek out animated films, but in a move to avoid a snarl of a traffic jam, I pulled off the freeway and found myself watching “Brave”, a current Pixar-Disney production. http://disney.go.com/brave/index.html Before I realized it, I was…