Believe In Your Sacred

07/04/2025

This simple creative meditation is designed to ground your body, reconnect you with your inner child, and ignite a new creative practice—perfect for beginners.

How do we nourish and tend to our creative and playful side? We take small and easy steps and buid from there. This creative meditation will help you to connect to your body and allow your inner child to play and explore in a safe and nurturing container.

12/30/2023

Closing this chapter with intention and reflection

06/15/2023

Our inner child needs the validation and compassion now as they did when we were little. Except now WE get to give that to them as a beautiful gift💚

Posted • .holistic.psychologist All of us an inner child within us that’s carrying the pain, wounding, + shame from childhood.

Many of us grew up in homes with parents who didn’t know how to soothe us, how to see us, + how to let us fully express ourselves without judgment. (They also didn’t know how to give this to themselves.)

We are in adult bodies— yet we are often developmentally + emotionally like the child part of ourselves that had to cope with situations + experiences that left us isolated, scared + confused.

Im still learning how to heal my inner child. Still learning how to listen. How to pause. How to be the wise, loving inner parent to myself as I live the human experience.

Beginning to listen to your inner child (or when acknowledging that we have an inner child) can feel very awkward. Our ego will resist it— some people call it ‘stupid’ or even reject the idea all together.

This is protection from feeling the pain + shame.

Our inner child just wants to be witnessed. Without judgment. Just wants to be seen. Just wants to know it’s safe

06/14/2023

06/14/2023

👉Join me in Play as Ritual, a 6 month workshop series exploring the elegance, simplicity and sacredness of play as a lifestyle.

↘️To join the first workshop on 6/22 either remotely or in-person click here: https://minka.as.me/playasaritual.

You can purchase one or the entire series.

Play as a Ritual is soul medicine for practitioners in all seasons of their journey, for those ready to invite more pleasure, joy and freedom into their practices, those ready to cultivate an intentional relationship with creativity, those exploring desires within the inner child and resources within the inner parent, those who are ready to honor and engage with their grief, anger and fear, and connect to their inner capacity for acceptance and compassion.

During our time together, you will collaboratively pull inspiration from the world around you and cultivate your creativity and intuition, expand your emotional awareness, tend to the inner perfectionist, explore new facets of your identity, integrate the shadow self and tend to the inner child.

Modalities Explored:
💚Intuitive Drawing
💚 Expressive Journaling
💚 Poetry Writing
💚 Mood Board Collaging
💚 Mandala Making
💚 Affirmation Art
💚 Channeling the Goddess Within

I hope to see you on 6/22!

https://minka.as.me/playasaritual

06/08/2023

Doors are open for my 5-week Creativity Embodiment Coaching Program.

LIMITED TIME OFFER: Summer and Fall 2023 only.

Each week, we will use creativity as a healing modality to support you as you:
✨tune into your innate abundance, pleasure and joy;
✨ reclaim your vulnerable + sensitive parts (👋🏼 dear inner child);
✨ uncover a world of inner guidance + supportive collaborations alongside the moon, elements, spirit guides and ancestors;
✨ connect to your intuitive gifts (👀 👂 💚 👃); and
✨ embody your authentic voice + expression so you live fully and present in your body and the world.

We will begin by honoring how you got here and the creative be-ing you already are!  

My intention is to help you call in your own creative empowerment, one week at a time.

Whatever it may look like, be it a creative project, a new life direction or a sustaining creative practice, this program will center what is most important for YOU!

👉If you’d like to see if this program is right for you, why not schedule a Discovery Chat (link in bio)!

06/08/2023

Random art found in my apartment, a series.

1. Valerie’s early drawing
2. Permission to write the worst junk in the world, lion creeping and abstract painting.
3. “Thoughts” by Valerie when she was having a hard time during COVID.
4. Mushroom takes root, an altar to the magic of Fungi.
5. Creative Altar in my kitchen
6. Paint splatter on canvas, a technique Valerie brought home from school this year.

I post this to show that creativity can be so many things.

It serves as a sweet reminder to be playful, to play with color.

Art can be the setting for a sacred, creative place in your home. It can be the drawings of the children in your life (my favorite). It can be your own curious journey in your imagination.

It doesn’t need to be perfect like the art you buy in the store.

Because when it’s yours, it will inspire you to make more. To experiment and try new things.

You don’t have to take classes but you can if you want to.

You just have to try and see how it makes you feel.

And put it up on the walls of your home and notice how it starts to speak with you.

06/07/2023

Spirit had to remind me today. Grateful to receive this in divine timing💚

04/03/2023

Join me this Wednesday 4/5 for a Creative Moment on LIVE Heal & Thrive @ MINKA] 🎨 Posted • Heal & Thrive @ MINKA] Join .valerie on on April 5th at 3pm for a Moment - calling in the power of our anger.

As we shift with the changing of the season, is a time of and renewal.

But with this that is calling us to move forward and break new ground, how can we set appropriate boundaries and clear the space for what we need now?

Connecting to our righteous anger and empowering it with voice is a powerful practice we can step into to embody our full power.

Join me for Creative Moment, a monthly series on IG live, to nourish and recharge. As always, we’ll explore our internal world through a heart-centered approach using , sound, color and playful exploration.

Bring your journal and (colorful) writing utensils. Have a candle nearby too!

A beginner's mind is where we can start! No prior experience necessary.



Photo by .b.carpenter

03/31/2023

Rest is calling. Rest is calling. Whatever rest may look and feel like to you, go get you some rest. Before you go and get all busy, before you lose sight of where your energy is really needed, slow down and get yourself some rest. Your energy is sustained in the small, incremental pauses in the day. Spread that rest out throughout your day. Close your eyes for a moment and tune the world out. Rest, my love, will hold you through these times.

03/29/2023

These words resonate so much for me today by naming the depth and vastness of grief. Thank you for this validation💚 Posted • Healing is grieving; everything you're feeling right now is normal. Sometimes it gets hard, but I promise it does get better.

03/26/2023

Our life is like a seed. Each seed is unique and holy. The seed yearns for expression. It knows intuitively when to break out of the shell and start its slow ascend toward the warm rays of light, the source of its power. When the wind rustles the earth, seeds can be carried far away from their motherlands. But eventually, the seed lands where it has been trusted and waits. It waits for the right conditions to awaken, to become what it knows is possible.

May you embody the courage and wisdom of your seed today, however you are able to show up. I believe in you!