The Exuberant Artist Podcast

In this episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I talk about why I bury some of my fabric meditation books in the earth for 30 days and then dig them back up. I share how my intuition has guided me in different moments with this process, the serendipity of learning about the Tibetan Buddhist practice of earth terma, or "hidden treasures" that are buried in the earth for others to discover and learn spiritual wisdom from and how that connects to the burying book process. I also share what the books have been teaching me and how this 2.5 year ongoing creative practice has fundamentally shifted my approach to art making.

I started a free and open invitation for anyone to join in if they want to make and bury books. It is called, "The Buried Earth Book Project." You can learn more about it here: www.deep-rooted-healing.com/collaborations/buried-books I invite people to share their images and reflections on Instagram using the hashtag #buriedearthbookproject. You can search for that and see what others have been creating, if you like.

You can see images of my buried fabric meditation books here: www.deep-rooted-healing.com/art-projects

This practice is art therapy for me. It has been deeply healing and transformative and has helped return me to an intimate, loving connection and relationship with the earth and my soul.

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Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, poet, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠⁠

Website: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠⁠

Instagram: ⁠⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠⁠

YouTube: ⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠

In this episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I share some insights and thoughts I'm having about artists being mediums who channel subtle energies, similar to intuitive or psychic mediums. 

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Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, poet, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes

Website: www.deep-rooted-healing.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing

Facebook: www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing

In this episode of The Deep Rooted Healing Podcast, I talk with the amazing Chantal Wolf, a Canadian poet, painter and author of the new book called "Painted Words: Poetry, Art & Parkinson's. We talk about her creative journey and her healing journey, being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and how that shifted her art journey, how poetry arrived in her life and how it has been healing for her and she reads some of her beautiful poems. 

You can buy a copy of the book here: https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000256078679

Her website is www.chantalwolf.com

She is in Instagram at www.instagram.com/chantalwolf.art.

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Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠

Website: ⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠

Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠

YouTube: ⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠

In this episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I interview Alana Garrigues, She is an artist, poet and community leader and space holder. She runs Within, a beautiful, deep online community for artists and makers that Daphne Cohn began. In this conversation, we explore what holding space means to each of us, what goes into it, and the magic that can emerge from being held by our art and by being held in spaces with other creatives. 

You can see Alana's artwork and writing on her website: www.alanagarrigues.com

Find her on Instagram : www.instagram.com/alanaofloveandlight

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Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠

Website: ⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠

Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠

YouTube: ⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠

In this episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I talk with the amazing artist, Zak Foster who is an improv quilter, textile artist, community builder and deep, wonderfully insightful and wise human. We go on a journey together to explore what holding space means to each of us in this moment as artists and creative community leaders. 

You can find Zak's online community, The Quilty Nook here: www.zakfoster.com/quiltynook

Zak's website with his incredible burial quilts, memory quilts and other work can be seen here: www.zakfoster.com.

And find Zak on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/zakfoster.quilts/

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Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠

Website: ⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠

Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠

YouTube: ⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠

I share a meditation journey I took myself on into a memory I have as a child when I discovered I wasn't an artist. I revisited the memory as my adult self and went through a gentle reparenting process in my mind and heart to connect with younger me and gave her the support she needed back then. I offer how you can try this meditation on your own with a memory connected to being creative or being an artist from your childhood and see what you discover. Please don't do this process with any deeply traumatic events, it is important to only try this with memories that are sticky and have some pain within them but not deep pain that you may need support navigating. You know what feels safe for you and trust that as you try this healing experience. 

I really hope this meditation is healing for you in some way. 

Emma Freeman is an intuitive artist, poet, teacher and space holder. She is a highly sensitive person, sober, queer and contemplative. You can learn more about her art and the online community and classes she runs at www.creativeunearthing.com. 

In this episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I share a poem I wrote called, "The Light Keeper" in the hope that it will be healing or inspiring to someone out there. 

Poetry has become medicine to me, both writing it and reading it. I hope to share some of that medicine with more people. 

You can read the poem here: https://deep-rooted-healing.com/poetry.

Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠⁠

Website: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠⁠

Instagram: ⁠⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠⁠

YouTube: ⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠

Today I'm sharing some realizations I'm having this week about all of this inner work, inner searching and wandering I've been doing over the last 2 years and more like 6 years. 

In this episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I share my love of the Japanese wabi sabi aesthetic philosophy, what it is, the history of it within Japanese Zen Buddhism, what some of the beautiful aspects or qualities of it are and how I explore them within my art making. I hope it inspires you to invite more simplicity, spaciousness, silence, stillness, spontaneity, presence, wonder and beauty into your creativity and art making. 

This is about creating art as a meditation practice and as a spiritual practice, which to me just means turning inward, getting quiet and going deep to find a soul connection within the natural world that we can collaborate with to create art that is personal, healing, interconnecting and beautiful. 

I have a new on-demand art class available called Make Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books where we explore mixed media book making techniques with paper and textiles, slow, intuitive hand stitching, printmaking and mark making with found nature, dripping beeswax, burying books, poetry, scent and more. You can learn more and sign up for instant access at www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes.

Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠⁠

Website: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠⁠

Instagram: ⁠⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠⁠

YouTube: ⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠

I renamed my podcast, "Creative Unearthing" from "Reflections from my Art Table" and in this episode I share why I made the change and what I'm dreaming up for the podcast right now.

Emma Freeman is an artist, writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. She teaches online art and writing classes at www.deep-rooted-healing.com. She is a sober and a highly sensitive person. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 

Online creative classes: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com/classes⁠⁠

Website: ⁠⁠www.deep-rooted-healing.com⁠⁠

Instagram: ⁠⁠www.instagram.com/deeprootedhealing⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠www.facebook.com/deeprootedhealings⁠⁠

YouTube: ⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@deeprootedhealing⁠