About Liberty

Creating beauty from ashes! Life Restoration Coach! Soul Transforming Creativity Coach! Natural Health Coach! Support for Christian women, spirit-soul-body in building a life that is Freely Whole, —particularly but not exclusively post marital abuse, trauma, and divorce. Life! Liberty! Pursuit of Happiness!

Where Faith, Neuroscience, & Creativity Meet

This neurographic drawing has been sitting on my desk for a week or so. Although I’ve been doing other FaithArt journaling pretty consistently this summer, that evening I just wasn’t drawn to my mixed media projects in process. There were no heavy feelings, or issues to work through. Just a heart that needed something different. So I picked up paper and pen and began drawing neurolines and rounding intersections, while meditating on God’s Word and worshipping Him. I hadn’t done any neurographic drawing in several weeks, not since at the CTPM Retreat in May. But that’s what I was being… Continue reading

A New Name

My mind is still meditating on and expanding my study on names, (based on my previous Bible Journaling page for the Great Shepherd & His sheep.) Thinking about how God calls me by name. How I know and hear His voice and follow it. To go a step deeper, to the name He gives me. John tells us, in Revelation 2:17, that overcomers in Christ have a new name, given by God. “To the one who conquers, I will give … a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one… Continue reading

Not Just for Artistic People

Saying it again for those hiding in the back. This isn’t just for artistic people! I know what some people think when they hear words like journaling or workshops. They immediately think, “Oh that’s for creative people,” or “I’m not good at that stuff.” Even though you’ve heard me say over and over here, Faith+Art Journaling is for everyone! 💖 But honestly, in the Faith Journaling Collective Workshop from Faith Bundles, not every presenter will even use the “art” part. This summit presents many different ways that “Faith Journaling” can be done. This isn’t really about artistic ability at all…. Continue reading

Independence 250–Mixed Media

America’s Semi-QuinCenntinial is tomorrow! It’s a big deal! Let’s celebrate! And of course, what better way to commemorate than to get into my creative studio and make some mixed media art! With this being such a huge thing to commemorate, I was really disappointed, that for our nation’s 250th birthday there were very minimal creative supplies produced, and very hard to find those few. I was expecting to see my creative feeds filled with makes and tutorials. Pretty darn near crickets. When I searched to find others that I don’t follow, results were from many years past. I don’t want… Continue reading

Revive Your Quiet Time

Can I ask you something? Have you ever opened your Bible, read a few verses, prayed, closed it and thought, “Okay… now what?” I think we’ve all been there at some point. Not because we love God any less, but because sometimes routines become so familiar that we stop expecting anything new. That’s why I love the idea behind the Faith Journaling Collective Workshop from Faith Bundles. Twenty women—including me! —are sharing different ways they personally spend time with God, and I love that there isn’t just one right way to do it. Maybe you’ll connect with journaling through Psalms,… Continue reading

My Guiding Light

Who remembers the song My Lighthouse by Rend Collective? When I saw Natasha’s make with a lighthouse, in the Encounters in Colour Retreat, my mind immediately went to this song. My lighthouse, my lighthouse, shining in the darkness, I will follow you. What a great follow-up make to my Great Shepherd mixed media meditation on John 10, My sheep know My voice and follow it. They will not follow another. It’s all about following Jesus! In my wresting and in my doubt, in my failures, you won’t walk out… In my questions your truth will hold. Your great love will… Continue reading

Sheep & The Shepherd {Tutorial}

A couple of weeks ago, I shared some thoughts on Sheep, Shepherds, and Wolves. If you haven’t read that yet, click on over. In reflecting and writing, I knew I wanted to do a Bible Journaling page to remember it in my Bible. You saw my beginning ideas in that post. Here’s the conclusion and video tutorial. I made it right away, while still reflecting, but it took a while to get the tutorial edited. Sorry for the delay. (See pic at bottom for what I’ve been busy doing.) 😍 I’d recently gotten the new Happy Herd die set, and… Continue reading

Faith Journaling Summit

Hey, my Jesus loving, creative peeps! I am so excited to finally be able to share this with you! I’m teaching inside the Faith Journaling Collective Workshop from @faith.bundles and I would absolutely love to have you join me. ❤️ Twenty women are sharing different ways they personally connect with God. 20 different lessons. Lots of different styles and approaches. Come hang out with us! ❤️ If you know someone who loves Bible study, journaling, prayer, quiet time, or is just wanting a fresh perspective, invite her to join you. As always, this is not about being an “artist”; it’s… Continue reading

Summer Creativity

How is your summer creativity coming along? 👩🏻‍🎨 Are you one that has more time to relax and create in the summer? Or does your summer bring more running around, less time at home or in one place long enough to sit down and work on creative projects? I like to think I have more time in the summer, that my schedule is more flexible. But the reality is I also like to travel as much as possible. Sometimes those trips, such as when camping, allow for time to create. Sometimes those trips involve being busy with family, friends or… Continue reading

Sheep, Shepherds, and Wolves

Not all ongoing control, violence and cruelty comes from within the home. The times when I talk about abuse on this site, it’s usually about marital abuse, fracturing the closest of human relationships. But God, in His Word, talks about another kind of abuse, in the broader family. He condemns the misuse of that relationship too. And shows us His intention for it. I’ve been pondering sheep, shepherds, and wolves a lot lately. YHWH has brought them up in many different contexts, so I had to dig in. It’s interesting how often His Word talks about them—and how often He… Continue reading