Important note: This episode includes conversation about trauma, depression, suicide, and substance use. Please take care of yourself. Listen cautiously or consider skipping this one if these subjects are triggering for you.

Art is often an outlet for healing. For digital nomad, Felicia Clark, poetry was her medicine of choice.

Felicia joins Art is the New Wall Street to talk about her debut poetry collection, Awake: Poetry for the Healing. Together, we explore what it means to be awake, notice synchronicities, write through pain, and use creativity as a form of healing. Felicia reads multiple poems from her book on air and shares how The Artist’s Way, sobriety, and radical self-acceptance shaped her healing journey and subsequent spiritual awakening.

In this episode we talk about:

• Being awake to generational cycles and toxic patterns
• Obsessive writes: the themes that haunt your creative work and following them
• Foster care and the mysterious letter A
• Sobriety, nomad life, and rebuilding creative confidence
• Pets as lifelines (hi, Luna Moon)
• Boundaries, mirrors, and the friends who make up a support squad
• Manifestation as a creative practice
• The Artist’s Way, Big Magic, and other creative works worth checking out

This one is for the artists who are healing, the writers who are listening, and the souls who are learning to see their story as sacred.

Felicia’s creative affirmations:

I am willing to create. I am willing to be of service through my creativity. I, Felicia Clark, am a brilliant and prolific writer, worthy of being a published author.

Connect with Felicia (and buy her book!):

• Felicia's Author Website
• Measure Life in Bookmarks Facebook
• Measure Life in Bookmarks Instagram

Creative works mentioned in this episode:

• It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Becoming A Published Therapist: Bill O’ Hanlon 
• Big Magic by Elizabeth GIlbert
• Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

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Keep creating, keep making art. Your art is a gift to you and to the world.