Healing Is an Art Form — Why Creativity and Transformation Belong Together

"Becoming" - an AI art piece by Patty. I don't always have time to create something of this magnitude. AI is where I can just "Play" and let my creative self have a playdate where no materials are required. I use Nightcafe. It's free and fun!

When I tell people I’m both a healer and an artist, I often see a flicker of confusion in their eyes — like the two things shouldn't belong in the same sentence. But the truth is, they’re not separate at all. In fact, they’re two sides of the same soul language coin. And when I say, “Healing is just another art form — haven’t you heard the phrase ‘The Healing Arts?’” — something clicks. I watch people shift as they have an "ah-ha moment." Something sacred and half-remembered comes rushing back.

The Forgotten Language of the Soul

For centuries, healing was never just about fixing — it was about restoring harmony, beauty, and wholeness. It was intuitive, expressive, rhythmic. Before medicine became sterile and clinical, healing was woven with music, ritual, symbol, touch, movement, and art. The geisha is a great example of this in their being a "living art form." The term “healing arts” didn’t come from nowhere — it came from a lived reality where creativity and spirit were part of the same process, not separate from it.

The Modern Disconnect

In our productivity and achievement-obsessed world, art is often dismissed as frivolous. School systems have demoted it to non essential. It is low on the list of “important” things a student needs to learn. And yet as adults, how many of us are aching to express ourselves? I can't tell you the number of clients I have met who say they used to paint, or dance, or write... until life got ... serious. Or did they mean, "until survival took precedence?" Creativity, like intuition, gets buried — but it doesn’t die.

Art as Portal, Healing as Expression

When I guide people through a healing experience — whether through past life regression, shamanic journeying, or ancestral work — art emerges spontaneously. A gesture. A song. A dream. A symbol. The soul speaks in rhythms and images long before it speaks in words. This is why creativity is not optional — it’s the delivery system of transformation.

Remembering What Was Never Truly Lost

You don’t need to be a professional artist to create something sacred. Picking up a paintbrush or clay, writing a poem, or arranging stones on your altar is a way to re-enter the space where healing becomes art — and art becomes healing. It’s time we remember that.

If you’ve felt the pull to create but told yourself it wasn’t important… this is your permission.

If you’ve longed to heal but felt stuck in silence… this is your opening.

Art is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

Healing is not a formula. It’s a sacred unraveling.

They are both sacred acts of Becoming.

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Remember Your Lost Art

Try This:Ask yourself: What form of creativity once brought me joy — before life got “serious”? Name it. Write it down. Then take one step toward it this week.One sketch. One dance in the kitchen. One line of poetry. Let it be imperfect — but real.You don’t need permission. Just begin.