About

Hi, I’m Rachel!

I’m a Creative Embodiment Coach and Intuitive Artist serving millennial women & the LGBTQ+ community who struggle with chronic illness. Through creative embodiment practices, I empower you on your transformative journey through self-acceptance, inner child nurturing, intuitive flow, & creative JOY.

I started out "adulthood" as a bright-eyed master of art education wanting to Michelle Pfieffer my way through the "dangerous minds" of our left-brained dominant school systems. I basked in the glory of how art class could help students toggle over to their right brains, engaging in abstract thought and creative problem-solving.

This is my story

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For years, I facilitated art in public schools, camps, assisted living homes, and with 1:1 clients.

My time working with folks navigating dementia, witnessing the burnout in their caregivers, and observing the limitations of our western institutions made me realize how deeply I needed to take care of myself.

If I wanted to continue my work, I needed to focus on my own holistic health journey.

So I did!

I felt really good, grounded, and playful in all of my self-care practices – my art journaling, yoga & meditation practice, nutrition, and mindset work all offered me so much life.

And then…

The unexpected happened.

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I was diagnosed with Ocular Melanoma.

Eye cancer.

If you’ve ever experienced a surprise diagnosis, you know the grief cycle that comes next.

10 years ago I had no idea that…

I would need to have four eye surgeries and accept over two dozen needles in my eye.

Or that…

I would be diagnosed with a rare genetic disease.

Or that…

I would have to have open surgery on my left kidney.

Denial.

Anger.

Bargaining.

Depression.

…Acceptance.

CREATIVE RECOVERY & EMBODIED HEALING

I found transformational art journaling and creativity coaching when I lived in magical Northern California. I bravely moved across the country from quaint Central Pennsylvania in the first year after my eye cancer diagnosis, feeling the brevity of life and willing to take a leap. Living near the wild pacific coast and grounding redwood trees inspired many of my art journal pages.

Art journaling and somatic release became huge catalysts in teaching me to thrive through PTSD, release trauma, and nurture my holistic health.

I embraced the pain and danced in the dark.

I reawakened my childlike wonder and found safety in expressing myself.

I embodied a phoenix rising from the ashes and leaned powerfully into my “sweet Scorpio” energy – welcoming my shadows, transforming them into light.

The work was incredible.

My coach invited me to co-facilitate group deep-dives.

And somewhere along the journey –

I went from surviving cancer to thriving and transformed.

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EMBODIED CREATIVITY CHANGED MY LIFE

Creativity coaching and transformational art journaling continues to invite me into the deepest depths and sweetest joys of being and becoming.

So many of us approach art from our minds.

We’re used to intellectualizing ourselves and the world around us – so our creative hearts follow our lead.

But my heart could never be tamed. And neither can yours.

Embodied creativity asks us to be in the moment, to drop down from our heads to our hearts and into our bodies to express our authentic whole being experience.

It’s a fluid, intuitive process.

When I release things out onto the page, it changes me.

And it will change you too.