Creative Healing Integration, Inc.

02/12/2026

A special message if you are feeling overwhelmed, agitated, confused.

Interested in learning more about my embodiment & mandala making workshop? Link in my bio.

02/11/2026

The MARI framework reminds us that healing is not a straight line. Stage 2 teaches us to stay with sensation without rushing for answers. It asks, What is forming in you that hasn’t yet taken shape?

This is where the MARI mandala becomes a companion; it doesn’t demand answers. It offers a center. In art therapy, we learn that form follows feeling. Not the other way around.

When we allow form to arise from feeling, we let healing unfold in its own time.


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02/10/2026

In Stage 2 of the MARI, impressions arrive before definition. It’s like the way sunrise begins with a blush of light; you feel it first before you see it clearly.

In your own experience, where do you feel intuition arise first?
In your body, your breath, or your mood?
The mandala becomes a container for these impressions, offering a bridge between felt sense and visual expression.

Today, if you sit with a blank circle, what would your first mark be?


marimandala, creative healing integration, mandala reflection, embodied intuition, art therapy

02/03/2026

February arrives quietly, as the world keeps spinning. Dizzyingly.

Time keeps moving, but change often begins beneath the surface. In the language of the MARI Mandala, February corresponds to Stage 2 of the Great Round. This is not about clarity yet. It is about sensing, feeling, and early instinct before meaning takes form.

This stage gently invites us to notice what is present in our bodies and hearts before our minds can explain it. Restlessness, tenderness, fleeting intuition, these are all part of Stage 2’s language.

🌀 The mandala can help translate what is felt into something visible and understandable without forcing answers.

How does your body know what your mind hasn’t caught up with yet?



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01/02/2026

We’ve crossed into 2026, and with it comes a quiet invitation to begin again.

This month, I’m reflecting on the energy of one—unity, initiation, and the seed of what’s to come—through the lens of the MARI Mandala, a powerful tool in art therapy rooted in Jungian wisdom.

Inside the blog:
✨ The story behind the MARI Mandala
🌀 Reflections on wholeness, ego, and beginnings
🎨 A gentle art invitation to start the year
🌱 Prompts for those healing the mother wound

If you’re craving a calm, centered way to start the year…

👉 Read the blog via link in bio: January – The Power of One


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Art Therapy
creative Healing

12/25/2025

From my heart to yours...

Wishing you a warm and fuzzy holiday,

filled with softness, sweetness, and the small joys that matter most.

May today bring you a breath of peace

and a quiet reminder that you are held.

With love,

Mari (and the kitties) 🎄

12/23/2025

Feeling overwhelmed this holiday and need to release your nervous system?

Try this quick tip I learned from Energy Medicine.

12/19/2025

As the year gently winds down, many of us feel the call to slow, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most. In this short video, I guide you through a simple yet powerful mandala practice—no art experience needed.

✨ All you need is a piece of paper, some color, and a quiet moment.

This creative exercise is designed to help you:

Reconnect with yourself

Ground your emotions

Process the transition from one season to the next

Tap into the healing power of creativity

🌿 Mandalas are a sacred and intuitive way to explore your inner world. This practice invites presence, softness, and reflection—and can be returned to again and again.

If this speaks to you, I invite you to go deeper in Daughters of Critical Mothers, my self-guided healing course—currently 50% off for December, with a free copy of my digital book Overcoming the Mother Wound included.

🎁 Learn more and enroll: Link in Bio



Healing Journey
Daughters Of Critical Mothers
Reflection
Mandala Meditation
Art Therapy

12/10/2025

As we near the end of the year, I’ve found myself slowing down.

Listening more closely.

Choosing what matters.

This month on the blog, I’m sharing some reflections from this season of transition, both personal and professional.

There’s a story about my first mandala, a glimpse into the grief I’ve been navigating, and a simple art practice to help you mark your own return to center.

This is for anyone holding something quiet.

Anyone standing at the edge of a chapter.

There’s also a gentle offering tucked inside the post, a little support for those on the healing path.

Read the full blog via the link in bio: A Soft Return To Wholeness



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12/03/2025

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