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Real healing isn’t pretty. It isn’t a 5 a.m. routine, a perfectly lit yoga flow, or a tidy before-and-after. It’s messy, textured, human — and sometimes it starts with ripping up old love letters.
In this episode, I sit down with mixed media artist and Soul Portrait creator Devorah Brinckerhoff, whose 30+ years as an artist and very real journey through childhood trauma, family estrangement, and her children’s abuse led her to a completely different way of healing. Instead of talking about your story, Devorah guides people to literally work with it — using old letters, photos, journals, and legal documents to disassemble, rewrite, and re-name who they believe themselves to be.
We talk about:
- How creativity can reach places therapy and talking sometimes can’t
- Why your “not enough” wound and mean-girl memories still r ...
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