Episode 183 - Cara Harjes.
Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Cara Harjes.
As a passionate artist, teacher, and coach, Cara curates safe, inspiring, cozy connections, spaces, and experiences through making and sharing original artwork, leading workshops and retreats, and engaging in empowering and healing one-one-one conversations with her coaching clients.
After years of floating through life as a deeply creative being with a rich inner life, but without an expressive outlet, Cara’s late husband Herb asked her to make a painting for him during the Christmas of 2010. Without much of an art background, she bought a canvas and went for it. From there, Cara was propelled into a world of color, texture, and deep feelings that she could have only dreamt existed when she was a little girl in the back of her mom’s wood-paneled minivan.
Once she discovered she was an artist and slipped (read: bumbled in fits and spurts) into her authentic self, the next steps became clear to Cara: empower other women to discover and rediscover their creative parts (we all have them!) and to embrace and express their truest selves! Intuitive painting became the unexpected (but now beloved) portal through which Cara teaches women to embrace every last beautiful, messy part of themselves and their one wild and precious life.
Since that fateful painting of 2010, Cara has been an avid student and self-taught intuitive painter. Prior to that, Cara spent a decade working as a psychotherapist with a Master’s Degree in Counseling. This season of her life instilled in her a passion for empowering, supporting, and nurturing women while challenging them to be the truest versions of themselves. In 2016, Cara lost her husband Herb to pancreatic cancer, leaving her a single mother of two young kiddos. At this point, Cara had a decision to make about what kind of life she would make for herself in the midst of loss and heartbreak. This would go on to influence Cara's outlook on life. In the nooks and crannies of all of that, Cara has spent years picking the perfect playlist, arranging on-point charcuterie boards, and hosting kickass parties where people let their hair down. All of this came together and ultimately led Cara to create Cara Harjes Art as a way of creating beauty and cheering on women. No matter her background or inspiration, Cara's art and all of her course offerings are her way of splashing color and adding joy to the world around her.
Cara's website can be found at www.caraharjesart.com
She also hangs out quite a bit on Instagram @cara_harjes_art
Cara is now accepting clients for her coaching service, The Permission Sessions. Keep an eye out for live workshops and retreats, coming in the Fall and Winter of 2021. The best way to stay in touch is by popping on her website and signing up for the newsletter.
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