Ep 15: Healing from PTSD with art inspired by the ocean with Katherine Polack
In this episode, I talk with Katherine Polack. Katherine is an artist and therapeutic art coach. She has used her love for both the ocean and art to heal from PTSD and now she is passionate about both ocean conservation and supporting other women through art.
HIGHLIGHTS
π Katherine's creative journey
π Katherine's experience using art-making to heal from PTSD
π We discuss βBlue Mindβ as a common thread in all of Katherine's work
π Katherines work with ocean conservation
GUEST INFORMATION
Katherine is a Canadian-Peruvian mixed media artist and Therapeutic Art Coach nestled along a lake in Ontario, Canada.
She creates peaceful and immersive ocean-inspired art that highlights the beauty, peace, and wonders of the ocean. She uses visual storytelling and calming colours to create a pause in time where you can find uninterrupted peace in your day.
5% of every sale goes toward ocean research, education, and conservation through monthly donations that rotate between The Canadian Whale Institute, Canadian Sea Turtle Network, and Oceana Canada.
Katherine recently launched her Therapeutic Art Business - Good Things Come in Seas, which combines three pillars (Art, Mindfulness, and Nature), which have been the most impactful in her own healing journey from PTSD, to help women find relief from anxiety so that they can reconnect with themselves and feel at peace in their minds and bodies.
π Website: https://katherinepolack.com/
π Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/katherinepolack + https://www.instagram.com/goodthingscomein.seas/
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HOST INFORMATION Sam Horton is a Holistic Artist and Creative Empowerment Coach. She supports women to reconnect with their creativity and find meaningful ways to express themselves to unlock the inner peace and wisdom they crave, even if it feels like forever since they made any art or got creative and even if they barely know how to draw a stick man.
Samβs signature framework - SOUL LED CREATIVE EMPOWERMENT, is a unique blend of creativity and art-making, combined together with holistic empowerment practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman, helping women access and harness their unique inner intution, power and wisdom, and cultivating creative empowerment and wellness.
Through her own creative wellness journey from CFO to Artist, and some major life challenges (including divorce, baby loss, unrecognisable career shift, solo parenting a highly emotional and anxious tween, etc.), she understands the feminine power of creativity to nurture mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.
Sam lives on the Sunshine Coast in Australia with her tween daughter. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, nature and sentimental treasures.
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