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WANT TO TEND YOUR HEART STEADILY & GENTLY?

Creative Group Coaching might be for you!

This coming Saturday, May 8th, we'll be starting a new round of group coaching. For full information, click here...

This group is for anyone interested in creative coaching & group support to address topics like:

• growing your creative business,
• loving again after loss,
• following your heART calling,
• exercising your skills for being a compassionate caregiver.
  

Because we really want to make this group happen, we are offering a special! If you are reading this here, and you click thru to register, you are granted permission to select the 1/2 off, repeat participant rate of $75 (a $75 savings). The groups work at their most dynamic when we have at least 4 people. So if you or anyone you know might be interested, please share this forward.

You are welcome to join us if you want to Creatively approach:

• your small business,
• your writing dreams,
• your art life,
• your everyday life,
• your life as you learn to live again after loss

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ALTERING BOOKS FROM YOUR ALTERED HEART

a creative prompt & coaching tool
from Kara L.C. Jones

This week's prompt is inspired by Amy, fellow blogger and heARTist who regularly creates in response to our prompts and generously shares her experiments with us.

When we encounter grief and loss, we often feel altered. If the grief is a traumatic experience, we can even feel that our pre-loss life is completely and totally different than our post-loss life. I know for me personally, after the death of our son, I felt like an altered person, as if I were different all the way down to the cellular level.

So it felt very expressive to represent this alteration physically through altering books to make heART-pieces. You can rip the book up, glue photo, cut outs, words on top of pages. You can take pieces of one page and mask them onto a different page. You can cut frames out of top page and glue art onto the bottom pages to show through. You can paint, draw, collage on the cover, spine, pages.

Try it in the coming week! See if you can pour your altered self into altering the book. And feel free to come share the process and results over on MotherHenna.blogspot.com or Kotapress.blogspot.com or over at the MISS Creation Station forum!

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Honoring all bereaved mothers this coming weekend for Mothers Day. If you don't already know it, please click here to read about how Mothers Day was originally founded by bereaved mothers during the Civil War!

And if you are looking for ideas for coping with Mothers & Fathers Days, please click here to see our KOTA series of articles.

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Blessing to Each of You!

Reiki to you:
HON SHA ZE SHO NEN
HON SHA ZE SHO NEN
HON SHA ZE SHO NEN

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Want to share this eZine?

To share the KOTA: Knowing Ourselves Thru Art eZine with others, click here...

LATEST BOOK!

1,000 Permissions Granted is collection of creative permission slips. See photos of the real book in hand, link to press release, and more by clicking here... AND you are invited to join us, Friday, June 18th, 7pm for the 1,000 Permissions Granted Book Release Party at Vashon Bookshop. Come play!

WANT SOME SELF PACED PROMPTING?

Our home workshops (click here) are set up for you to explore creatively at your own pace. We've heard from artists, bereaved families, pastors, grief support volunteers, creative therapists who have all found great benefit, both personally and professionally, from the materials and experience of our home workshops. Register today by clicking here....

WHAT heART SPEAKS TO YOU?

See the heART-works now available as postcards, folded cards, matted prints, framed prints, mounted prints, and posters via MotherHenna's RedBubble shop. Check it out!

MADAME ZOLDA TELLS YOU THE TRUTH!

Only through our Mother Henna Etsy shop! Madame Zelda does card readings using the 1,000 Faces of Mother Henna deck of cards created by heARTist Kara LC Jones. To schedule your reading today, click here...

TWITTER?

FAN?

Friend Mother Henna aka Kara Chipoletti Jones or become a fan of

Mother Henna's Blog

DISCUSS?

Or you can join our Grief & Creativity Discussion Group which is a mix of caregivers, artists, and people looking for support in their own processes.