Caring for Others Starts with Caring for Yourself

Learn simple exercises in art making and meditation to help combat stress and offer yourself nourishment and restoration.

Monthly Every Third Wednesday
8:00 – 9:30 PDT
Online via Zoom
$55 per Session

Reserve Your Spot Today!

Whether it’s work, or parenting, or caregiving, so often we take on roles in life aimed at supporting and holding others. Yet within this very natural human desire to do the best we can and care for those we love, it can be common to lose ourselves in the process. The fact is, we have to be able to fully connect with ourselves in a loving and compassionate way before we can continue to offer the same to others.

And that’s exactly what this monthly class aims to do — set aside time and space for you to explore simple and practical ways to reconnect with yourself and offer some much needed care and restoration.

Each class will provide instruction in both an art making exercise and meditation to explore and practice different aspects of mindfulness and self compassion.

Creative Compassion Classes are for you if:

• You’re feeling exhausted emotionally and physically
• You’re feeling overwhelmed and like everything is out your control
• You’re feeling disconnected from yourself and others
• You know you need to do more for yourself but are unsure of where to start

Reserve your spot at our next class here, and set aside some much-needed time and space just for you.

All Sessions Will Be Facilitated Online Through Zoom

*No experience with art making, meditation, or Mindful Self-Compassion is necessary to participate.

**Bring your own art materials to use during this workshop. Prompts for art making can be adaptable to the art supplies you prefer or simply to whatever you have on hand. Don’t have your own art materials? Click here for a list of affordable supplies to try out from Amazon.

Catherine has over 17 years of professional experience as a board-certified art therapist, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor. As an art therapist, Catherine has worked in a variety of settings from community centers and art museums to clinical mental health programs and medical hospital settings. Although the environments and populations have changed over time, one thing has remained a constant in her work, the guiding principle of helping individuals find ease while experiencing life’s inevitable moments of challenge and suffering.

Catherine now runs her own practice, HeartSpace Wellness Studio out of Nashville, TN, where she provides individual sessions in art therapy, classes and workshops for organizations, and clinical supervision for recent art therapy graduates. Catherine specializes in individuals with medical diagnoses and the related emotional toll, experiences of grief and loss, as well as women in life transitions. Catherine understands the healing powers of creativity, mindfulness, and yoga not only from her work as an art therapist but because she has experienced the profound benefits for herself for chronic pain, difficult life transitions, grief and loss, and compassion fatigue. Because of this, she is passionate about helping others navigate stressful and challenging times in their lives by finding the tools from within to leave them feeling calm, capable, and confident no matter what they may be facing.