Inner Child Art

I have been making art with my 5 year old niece and she has been teaching me so much about being free, experimenting and exploring, feeling my big feelings, being loving and joyful, silly and spontaneous. I have also been doing very deep and tender inner child work with myself for years and have been discovering that these young parts of me have a lot to express that had been silenced, hidden, hurt or shut down. Art making is becoming a way these younger parts of me can come to the table and communicate with me and through me and it has been so healing. I find that these younger parts of me want to play with simple materials-stencils, markers, sparkly watercolor paints, glue sticks, cut up pictures, bright colors…she wants to listen to certain music and tell me what she loves about the songs. She wants to feel FREE to express boldly and openly and as I allow her to do that, I feel more open and free. It has felt so amazing to create this way. You can see some of the pieces my niece and I have collaborated on below and some I’ve worked on with my inner child.