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I learned that this was a “cataclysmic” and “transformative” moment for Aquarians. The most I know of astrology is that...
02/18/2026

I learned that this was a “cataclysmic” and “transformative” moment for Aquarians. The most I know of astrology is that, of those, I am one. And my friends with more acumen for the science of the stars all prepped me for what was to come and told me, “life for you will never be the same after this.”

Are you sh****ng me? No, thank you.

We’re all just helpless beings on this boulder floating in infinite space and if there’s order to it and the order insists I’m going to get a life overhaul, I guess I can only prepare like we do for all the other landscape altering storms: buy the mega pack of toilet paper.

Since the eclipse, I haven’t slept much. My mind is doing a “remember when” greatest hits, playing back for me all the moments I wish I could take back, completely prevent, or just flat out redo. Like hangover anxiety but on steroids.

I’ve set off the smoke alarms in my house every day. Cooking a frozen pizza, lighting a candle, making grilled cheeses. We lived in Janet Reno’s Branch Dividian Raid for 20 minutes a day, trying to ride out the ringing and sirens and “fire” announcements while we waited for DiGiorno.

The stack of bills that had been taunting me for a week finally got my attention and I couldn’t help but think as I looked at bill upon bill, “this wasn’t the future I was promised.”

Growing up Gen X we had a pretty solid assurance that working hard, buying a home, and investing right would mean we could all live like an episode of Growing Pains and hard life experiences would be purely situational and solved with a family talk and a theme song cuing the resolution.

But, crap. I wasn’t prepared for the “Great Recession,” global pandemic, mass shooter future I seem to have arrived at.

Bills will always be a bitchy albatross cherry on the unrelenting life post-911 sundae for me.

The eclipse seems to have made me wade a bit in the raw deal lake. And maybe I’ve stayed there too long. But I know, in this lake it’s either walk out or pull an Edmond Fitzgerald.

So far?

The result of the eclipse is: pick up some NyQuil, get the pizza delivered, and don’t drown in the woe is me waters. Float until you’re ready to get out.

It’s hard to hear about people who spend thousands of dollars on programs th learn how to do things that are simple, the...
02/15/2026

It’s hard to hear about people who spend thousands of dollars on programs th learn how to do things that are simple, there for everyone, and open to personalization.

Forms of energy healing, to me, have felt like a new form of bottled water. Like…wait why are we buying these when it flows through our taps? And now there’s $200 per bottle bottles of water!

This world of energy healing through modes like reiki, panic healing, biofield attunement, reconnective healing…it’s a beautiful world! Full of well meaning people and powerful pathways to begin offering energy work to clients and family, but the commodification of it all… something that we have free access to and make our own is being hijacked and sold like that $200 bottle of water.

I’m not opposed to reiki or paying for attunements and certifications, but I’m often shouting from the rooftops that you don’t need to do any of that stuff to get started doing healing work for family and friends and even clients.

If you dump the water out of each one of those water bottles, you wouldn’t really see a huge difference…the empty bottles were what gave that water its shape and energy.

I want people to start seeing energy healing that way!

I buy bottled water. I went to reiki certifications. I studied specific systems. But none of it is really different from packaging and branding water.

Fundamentally, energy just is. And it is in ways that it’s accessible to us all. And my fervent wish is to help others begin a personal energy healing practice without paying for expensive seminars, without buying a system, and without feeling like they are a fraud bypassing that traditional route of certifications, seminars, and systems.

I want my friends and family and community, you can do this too! Right now. With just a few simple steps you could become an energy healer who uses their own style and spin on the work they do!

In the images above I gave the basics of how I connect and operate . These steps seem small and maybe even obvious, but they are powerful nonetheless and as easy to access as tap water.

Give this a try and tell me what you think!

I spent most of my life trying not to use the word psychic.Not because I didn’t experience things.But because everything...
02/13/2026

I spent most of my life trying not to use the word psychic.

Not because I didn’t experience things.

But because everything I had been shown about that word felt performative, predatory, loud.

1-900 numbers.
Daytime talk shows.
Women in sequins predicting lottery wins.

That wasn’t my experience.

My experience was quiet.

It was walking into a room and feeling the emotional temperature before anyone spoke.

It was understanding people’s wounds, relational patterns, and defense systems almost instantly.

It was receiving images, sensations, and insights that helped me understand why people are the way they are and how they could heal.

Over time, I stopped asking,
“Am I crazy?”

And started asking,
“How do I use this responsibly?”

So I studied ethics.
I practiced discernment.
I learned boundaries.
I built structure around my perception.

Because this work, when done well, isn’t about prediction.

It is about pattern recognition.
Energy literacy.
Emotional translation.
Helping people understand themselves at a deeper level.

After years of practicing professionally, I’ve seen just how healing this kind of insight can be.

And I can finally say the word psychic without flinching.

Not because it is flashy.

But because it is honest.

I bring these abilities into my Holistic Healing sessions and intuitive readings at Creative Spirit, always grounded in ethics, compassion, and real therapeutic intention.

If you have ever been curious about this work, or wondered what it actually is beyond the stereotypes, you can learn more through my website or come experience it for yourself.

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02/13/2026

Some updates! Just hit play. :)

I try not to be prescriptive in the work that I do. My job isn’t to find a problem in a person and offer five ways to re...
01/16/2026

I try not to be prescriptive in the work that I do. My job isn’t to find a problem in a person and offer five ways to resolve it. We all resolve things in our own ways and in our own time.

Instead, I pick up on what I’ve only ever been able to describe as energy. More specifically, the imprint that surrounds moments in a person’s life. Sometimes that imprint is trauma. Sometimes it’s beauty.

I lead clients on a kind of archaeological dig into their deep consciousness. We uncover a moment and handle it like an object we can hold in our hands and study together. I describe what I see and what I feel physically and emotionally. These aren’t my feelings. They belong to the client. I’m there to help them see.

People sometimes ask why we would drag the lake for evidence of pain when the water feels calm. Won’t that just cause more pain?

Actually, no.

When moments are presented like objects we can study, information comes with them. You begin to see how those moments affect the present. Pain plants a seed. That seed grows into a tree with a million branches. If you can walk the branch all the way back to the seed, you begin to loosen the grip those patterns have on your life.

I think of it like skimming debris from the deep end of a pool. We pull things up, look at how they clouded the water, and then we don’t throw them back in. We let them be released and transformed.

Once you see something, you can’t unsee it.

That’s the gift.

Awareness unlocks the door. It doesn’t push you through. It simply lets you see that the door has been open all along.

Some of my strongest opinions arrive before I do.I notice them fully formed. Confident. Loud. Already halfway to my mout...
01/14/2026

Some of my strongest opinions arrive before I do.

I notice them fully formed. Confident. Loud. Already halfway to my mouth before I’ve had a chance to check in.

That’s probably why I keep coming back to Ram Dass’ work. He reminds me of something I forget constantly.

That we are the observer of ourselves.

We’re watching ourselves think, feel, react. Watching the reflexes fire. Watching anger, jealousy, shame, fear, sadness, joy show up like they didn’t even knock.

Ram Dass talks about taking a beat. Just one. And bringing yourself fully into that place of awareness.

Wow. I’m really angry.
Okay. There it is.

I can feel that sharp, defensive part come online. I know exactly what it wants to do.
And instead of pushing it away or letting it take the wheel, I stay right here and watch it move through.

This practice doesn’t stick. It wanders off constantly.

It will try to slip out the door like a shoplifter.

When you notice it making a break for it, just give a whistle and a squint.
Get back here, buddy.

Loving awareness will turn around and bring back the compassion and presence it was trying to sneak off with.

I’m so angry I want to break s**t.
I’m so mad I want to say something very smart and very s**tty to assert my superiority.
I’m so frustrated I want a massive bowl of popcorn and a glass of Chardonnay.

They’re all guests to the party.

Greet them with warmth and kindness and let them in exactly as they are. They won’t overstay their welcome if you don’t try to throw them out.

The toothless guy who kind of steals? Welcome. Have a drink. Have a snack.
The creepy neighbor nobody really likes? Let him in. Shake his hand. Smile. Tell him you’re glad he’s here.

You won’t have to kick anyone out. They always wander home on their own.

Be aware of what shows up.
Love it.
Let it pass through.

That’s the practice.

This. 👆👆👆👆👆👆Passages is another incredible event that is gaining so much traction here at Creative Spirit. And you nee...
01/09/2026

This. 👆👆👆👆👆👆

Passages is another incredible event that is gaining so much traction here at Creative Spirit.

And you need to check it out!

This Thursday we’re gathering to talk big ideas and focus on different texts and authors who are exploring the realm of spirituality, mysticism, faith, metaphysics, and so much more.

As we talk, we’re going to create a set of spell/intention candles and develop a personal ritual to work with those candles at home. Everyone will leave with a personal collection of candles and accompanying rituals.

We will end the evening with a short meditation and moment of intention to carry us through the month ahead.

Come as you are and be prepared to learn, laugh, and create.

Link is in the bio and on our website: CreativeSpiritEaston.com

I hope to see you 1/15 at 6:30!

I wrote something this week about winter, attachment, and the things we grip when life feels uncertain.I also opened a s...
01/08/2026

I wrote something this week about winter, attachment, and the things we grip when life feels uncertain.

I also opened a small number of winter sessions that grew directly out of that reflection (available in my monthly newsletter).

If you’re feeling heavy or stretched thin right now, you can book through the link in my bio.

Pleasure without productivity.Playfulness without performance.I can’t play bar chords.I strum like a gorilla.And at some...
01/06/2026

Pleasure without productivity.
Playfulness without performance.

I can’t play bar chords.
I strum like a gorilla.
And at some point I stopped trying to master the guitar.

Not because learning or skill don’t matter.
Not because mastery isn’t beautiful.
But because what I needed from it was something else.

There is a kind of creativity that heals because it asks nothing of us.

It doesn’t need to go anywhere.
It doesn’t need to become anything.

When we let ourselves play without a goal, create without an audience, and stay with the simple enjoyment of the moment, something softens. Something opens.

There’s a quiet balance here when it comes to healing ourselves through the medicine of creativity.

This is how I use creativity to heal.

I play G-C-D songs and sing for myself.

I lay down watercolors on paper and watch what happens without a plan and without expectations of myself.

I whip up a meal with music in the background and combine ingredients like I know what I’m doing, and even if it turns out like s**t, I loved the act of cooking.

The medicine is in the act itself—the movement of my hands, the sound of my voice, the mixing of colors or flavors, the presence in the moment.

It soothes me when I’m tense.
It recharges me when I’m depleted.
It lights me up again when I’ve gone dim.

The longer we can stay in that flow of pleasure without productivity and playfulness without performance, the more places the light can hit inside of us that have been dark too long.

The more we are primed to see the light outside, even when it’s gray, even when there’s strife, even when it’s hard.

The longer we stay in that zone, in that flow, the quicker we spot goodness over negativity and possibility over dead ends.

And for the record…I nail this song after 3 beers. 😂

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Creative Spirit is owned and operated by Marisa McFadden, a former college professor, a writer, and a mother of five. Marisa is a gifted intuitive with years of individual and group reading experience as well as being deeply experienced in a variety of energy healing modalities (from reiki and shamanism to chakra work and more). Marisa is also an artist and creates everything from jewelry to mixed media art.

Marisa has often used modes of creative expression to enhance and deepen her own intuition and allow her to feel “in the flow.” Creative Spirit is a studio and healing space that allows Marisa to offer private and group readings along with a variety of creative and spiritual classes and workshops. Marisa uses her talents and experience to guide others in self exploration and self expression to ultimately get in and stay in “the flow.’

Marisa is also passionate about working with children and believes that the world can transform by inspiring children to explore their own creativity in a non-competitive, non-judgemental way. At Creative Spirit, Marisa is proud to offer workshops and classes that blend art, music, and mindfulness with the exploration of imaginary worlds, the building of friendships, and the discovery of inspiration everywhere.

While Marisa believes children are inherently intuitive, she does not practice intuitive readings or energy work with children. She believes that being inspired and creative in a safe and supportive space are the best ways for children to engage in self-discovery.