Hiya! My name is Anita (aka NeetyDee), and I am an Artist and a Certified Life Coach. How does that work together, one might wonder?
At first, when I started looking into Life Coaching I wondered that too. It's a good question. I didn't know, yet, but I trusted my desire and enrolled into the Life Coach School anyway.The best choice I've made in a long time!
In the middle of learning and earning my certification I came up with how I was going to bring art and life coaching together-- well, actually it was something deeper inside that figured it out in a kind of dream. I know, having a dream about ones future sounds very romantic, but the dream was weird and a bit scary, and not romantic at all, but it turned out to be damn useful. (You can tap into your dreams for answers too-I can teach you!)
Anyway, I dreamt of land divided by a river. The river was dark and thick, like old engine oil, and made a sound that was a kind of moan. I had a paintbrush in my hand and I started to paint--think of Harold and his Purple Crayon. I floated over the moaning river and I painted words and pictures of memories and a whole mess of other things. All of it started to form a connection with each other--connecting a sentence with an image and on it went. After a while I noticed my words and paintings formed a sort of solid arch over the river, making a bridge and safe passage to the other side. That's when I got it--
"I can teach this!" I thought.
I can teach art and life coaching together to form a connection between where you are and where you want to be in your life. I can make it fun, and transformative and deep, but the difference from my dream would be that YOU'RE holding the paint brush and YOU'RE creating the bridge that takes you from where you are to where you want to be. I'll just be there to guide when you need me. So, what do you say? Let's start painting!