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Welcome. I am so glad you are here.
Artful Heart is more than a website. It is a space. A space where creativity meets compassion. A place where big feelings are welcomed, and emotional wellness is supported through art, storytelling, and connection.
If you are here, you may be a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply someone who cares deeply about a young person in your life. You may be looking for ways to help a child through grief, anxiety, bullying, or struggles with self-worth or perhaps you are trying to understand how to support them better. You are in the right place.
Some mornings I wake up with a tight, uneasy feeling in my stomach. Nothing bad has happened. The day ahead looks perfectly fine, yet something feels off. When I pause and try to name what I am nervous about, I often can’t. The feeling is there before the words are.
As adults, we like to believe our emotions should make sense straight away, but they don’t always come from clear thoughts. Anxiety often lives in the body, in the stomach, the breath and the muscles. I t can be shaped by past experiences, ongoing stress, or things happening quietly below awareness. We might say we are “worried about nothing”, but the feeling itself is still real.
