You are the art. The art is your life.

Expressive arts, soulcollage(r), and the art of being you.

You are the art. The art is your life.

Expressive arts, soulcollage(r), and the art of being you.

Expressing the Art of Grief:

An 8-Session Creative Arts Journey for Women whose Person (spouse, partner, sibling, parent, child, friend) has Died

Do you feel like you don’t have a map for this grief-thing?
Would you like to listen to your own inner wisdom about your grief journey rather than what a grief illiterate [Insert all the stupid crap people say here] culture tells you?
Would you like to use creative modalities (collage, art-making, journaling) to have fun (!) and make art with a bunch of other people creatively traveling with grief?

This 8 session small group program was created to help you stop listening to all the voices (grief illiterate culture, your inner critic) that tell what your grief “should” look like, and listen to your own inner wisdom to guide you on your grief journey.

In this program, you will:

Get help telling your inner grief critic to STFU (Shut The F Up) when it tells you that you “should be further along” in your grief journey.
Provide a creative alternative or supplement to grief "talk therapy"
Use expressive arts practices to find the voice of Love, and Life, underneath the critic...and the grief.
Use fun and depthful creative arts practices like journalling from your Wise self, soulcollage(r), Universe boxes, painting rocks, and making altered books with other women who are on a grief journey with you.

It’s still there.

You’re still here: alive and (sometimes) kicking.

Grief is hard.

But you're not broken.

You're grieving.

This program, aims to help you carry grief with grace.

This program is NOT:

Fine art class (You will not be learning watercolor techniques, how to shade things, or trying to make pretty projects to hang on your wall).
For people who consider themselves "artists" (though if you do, you are welcome! But there is NO PREVIOUS ART EXPERIENCE REQUIRED).
A group that will be focused on "trauma bonding." (You can talk about your person. But we will not be sharing any details about how deaths occurred or wallowing in victimhood. Grief is hard enough. Let's support each other in moving forward, making new meaning).

WHAT: An 8-session Creative Arts Program

WHEN: 8 Friday sessions, 1:00-3:00pm EST, Live, via zoom (plus online support), starting January 27, 2023

HOW TO JOIN: Call or email Linda@DrLindaShanti.com or

(415) 335-2596

When you register, You will receive a fully stocked art supply box (pastels, sketch book and journal, soulcollage supplies, free copy of Linda's book, and candle for your creative altar).

*This group is open to women of all sexual identities

From former Expressing the Art of Grief participants:

"I would absolutely recommend this to a fellow widow. This has been an opportunity to express the unspeakable, be a witness for others, be seen and heard as I am and not as non-widows want me to be. A sisterhood like no other."

"The sense of community, being seen, and being able to express without judgement were the most fulfilling part of the program. I spend much of my 'outside' life sucking it up, holding it in, and not emoting. Having a safe place to do all those things was/is amazing!"

"Participating in this group made me realize how much I need to express emotions and experiences that I cannot formulate words to describe... words... just fail me when I think of losing (my husband), his illness, his death and his absence."

-Kay, Pacifica

Your facilitator

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

Hi, I'm Linda.

Art has been a helper on my journey since i was a shy child who spoke in drawings more easily than words.

When I got into eating disorder recovery in my twenties, art was a source of healing to which I returned...

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

After getting into recovery, I studied how art can be a source of connecting with God/dess in pursuing a master's degree in non-denominational divinity with a focus on art as meditation.

I then pursued and completed a doctorate in Psychology exploring how expressive arts can be used as tool to re-image the body in eating disorder recovery.

Post doc I learned about soulcollage(r) and trained with Seena Frost, M.Div., M.A., the founder of that amazing expressive arts technique.

For two decades, I worked as therapist in eating disorder recovery treatment programs, helping women re-image their bodies, their selves, and their lives in recovery.

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Expressing the Art of Grief

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

Expressing the Art of Grief

After my husband died of Pancreatic cancer, art saved my as* again and helped me where words were not enough. I painted and collaged my way through the first year, wrote a book about it, earned certification in grief counseling and became a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.

All of this experience helped give birth to the expressive arts coaching programs, workshops, and 1-on-1 coaching I now facilitate for others.

Because you can't keep it unless you give it away.

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After Your Person Dies

This is a book for anyone that has lost their person.

(Or for people supporting those who have lost their person.)

In this book, Dr Linda Shanti McCabe shares with you the paintings she made the first year after her husband died, as an invitation for you to see how you can create new meaning while traveling with loss. Tackling such difficult topics such as anger, grief waves, the nonlinear experience of grief, and the things your person leaves behind, Dr. Linda provides a compassionate hand to hold while traveling the journey of grief. She invites you to build a new home inside yourself, develop new capacities, find meaning, and live your life as if it were a series of questions. She encourages you to become a phoenix. She shows you what it could look like to carry grief with grace.

*15% of all proceeds from this book go to Dreams From Drake (supporting children's grief), Soaring Spirits International (widow support), and Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

To Buy the Book

It's Not About the Art.

You are the art. The art is your life.

You are the art. The art is your life.

Expressing the Art of Grief:

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God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

Expressing the Art of Grief

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

Expressing the Art of Grief

After Your Person Dies

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January 7, 2023

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You are the art. The art is your life.

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Expressing the Art of Grief:

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God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

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Expressing the Art of Grief

God/dess, Recovery, and Re-image-ing the Body

Expressing the Art of Grief

After Your Person Dies

Events

January 7, 2023

Vision Collage Workshop

1:00 pm

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4:00 pm, EST

January 7, 2023

Vision Collage Workshop

1:00 pm

-

4:00 pm, EST

Photo Gallery

Reviews

Free Goodies for You!

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