Ruthie’s soul’s work and dharma to welcome and love all the parts of us, including those that have been shamed or rejected

Ruthie’s story of being hit by an ambulance, being hospitalized for a month and getting a wire implanted in her spinal cord infusion

Growing up as a sweet Southern girl and her doing everything she had to do for belonging and love

Her being disassociated and numbing with food and screens, as a way to stay on the planet early on

Doctors putting Ruthie on the highest level of narcotics to cope with pain that they later discovered to be a broken wire piercing her brainstem 

Living in a bed for 7 years in debilitating pain and addiction until her husband left and her father passed away

Her gratitude for a breakdown that happened and got her out of bed to start living again in 2013

A period of time when Ruthie was wanting to die due the debilitating pain she was always living with

Her work now is inviting and welcoming pain when it visits, affirming with others that “it’s not the end of your story”, that transformation and healing is possible

Grieving who she thought she was and what she thought her life would be like, including having many children, which is not part of her current reality

The practice of “being with”, with whatever pain or pleasure comes up, all of it getting to be here without being denied, then it transmutes and transforms, and love gets to drive

Choosing love, forgetting and then remembering, and choosing love again

Ruthie saying “the pain is visiting me” versus “I am in pain”, to acknowledge that the pain comes and goes

The parable of the 2nd arrow: the first arrow being the circumstances and realities of our lives, and the 2nd arrow being the shame, resistance and judgment of the first arrow

Ruthie sharing Dr. Hilary McBride and her framework of 7 core emotions (anger, disgust, excitement, desire/sexual excitement, joy, fear, sadness)

The “inhibitory emotions” we create (shame, anxiety and guilt) to keep us from feeling any “bad” core emotions, that are “check- engine lights” giving us information about what needs to be felt

Then we numb our inhibitory emotions with additions to avoid feeling those

Social anxiety coming up as a “check-engine light” for Chetna saying that she’s trying to be like others or match the energy of others

Noticing how we feel certain emotions in our bodies through noticing its sensations, temperature, textures, colors and the emotions underneath the sensations

Being in our bodies allows us to be here now, connected to the oneness of everything around us, how embodiment will change the world because you can’t hate another when you’re in love and in your body

Ruthie going beyond the pain story into her excitement for remembering and reclaiming our divinity because we exist!

Her obsession with studying sacred sexuality, reclaiming pleasure, and challenging purity culture and patriarchy!

Her passion about money consciousness and getting more money in conscious women’s hands!

Giving money and energy of blessing, welcoming and stewardship 

Ruthie sharing her learning with Kate Northrup about how lack stories and welcoming money is about regulating the nervous system

Honoring and blessing the small things to show the universe that she’s capable of honoring and blessing the bigger things that could transform the world

Ruthie’s website: ruthielindsey.com

Ruthie on IG @ruthielindsey

Chetna on IG @mosaiceye and the podcast @creationforliberation 

The podcast to watch on youtube

Upcoming Events: Creative Somatic Alchemy, SA Femme Disruptors Reflection Group, and Boundaries for Peace Support Group (mosaiceyeunfolding.com/communityevents)

Work 1:1 with Chetna for self-trust, creative reclamation and divine aligning (chetnamehta.co/sessions)

Resistance and activism through frizzy hair

Creating new worlds through visual art; drawing what we want to see in the world, from cool fashion to authentic femininity

Clothes as wearable art yet co-opted by capitalism that make it seem frivolous

The paradox in Hana’s art between colorful and vibrant and dark and creepy

The power in what is deemed as “ugly”

Showing the unpleasant parts of humanness, like squeezing zits!

Hana’s fear of clowns and drawing jester archetypes

Going to various phases of mediums in art-making

Hana’s love for Shakespeare and the value of the wise fool 

Making art that scares us is channeling our disruptor/tricker energy

How Hana’s has drawn from her mental illness in her drawing, from literal depictions to more dualistic expressions

The paradox and appeal of upbeat or vibrant art that’s also speaking to deeper issues like addiction and mental illness

The importance of art that reflects multiple realities

Creating art for yourself to validate your own experience and being in community with your own art 

The acceptance that not everyone is going to be a masterpiece, it’s okay to experiment with different artistic mediums or processes

The struggle of performativity on social media

The proverb of “if a tree falls and no one hears it, did it really fall” and how it applies to our art-making practice

Recognizing that we are being witnessed by more than the human world, but by the trees and bees and life all around us, including ancestors, spirit, etc… and that can be enough!

The significance of art that takes a long time to create, unlike AI art, it’s more than “content creation”

Sharing from a place of safety and generativity, versus pressure or obligation

Being mindful with how we consume art, and how we’re consumed from to avoid being extractive in how we consume art or expect from artists

Letting ourselves have an eb and flow with our mediums, without adhering to “consistency” if that isn’t happening

Francisco Goya as a muse in shifting our vibe and energy in our works as artists

Cycling through styles and mediums of art-making is normal and natural

The creativity within you is worthy to be expressed and freed!

Hana’s IG @frizzkidart and her multi-disciplinary work 

Hana’s Patreon (www.patreon.com/frizzkidart)

Hana’s books on Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3syfbhmj)

Chetna on IG @mosaiceye and the podcast @creationforliberation 

The podcast to watch on youtube

Organizational Wellness: bring a mindful and expressive arts engagement to your people (www.mosaiceyeunfolding.com/organizational)

Upcoming Events: Embodied Compassion, Creative Somatic Alchemy, SA Femme Disruptors Reflection Group (mosaiceyeunfolding.com/communityevents)

Work 1:1 with Chetna for creative reclamation and authentic expression (mosaiceyeunfolding.com/oneonone)

Putting ourselves in roles or boxes with the labels and identifiers we use to introduce ourselves

How the ego relates to over-identification and control

Defending our ideas and needing to protect them as a cause of suffering

The ego’s need for security and its nature of insecurity

Compassion for the ego and how it tries to help us be secure

Finding security and connection beyond the ego by discovering what wants to come through us in this life

Amit’s concept of “drift” as our inclinations/instincts and to practice it with devotion

Self-forgetfulness and transcending ego

The practice of collaborating with (rather than controlling) flow as a way of decolonizing creativity

Listening as an essential part of creative process, and honing our sensitivity to get to the subtlety of experience

Perfectionism versus self-defined excellence

The art of the subconscious as intuition and intuition in the body

Ego’s tendency to what to “know” and “understand” as a way of control

Creativity even as an expression of play without knowing or understanding, without trying to control it

The balance of trying less versus forcing, and the yin/yang of showing up to try less

Amit on IG @findingawareness or online

Chetna on IG @mosaiceye and the podcast @creationforliberation 

The podcast to watch on youtube

Organizational Wellness: bring a mindful and expressive arts engagement to your people

Boundaries for Love: A 4-Month Support Group for Women & Non-Binary femmes

Work 1:1 with Chetna for creative reclamation and authentic expression