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Journal 52 Week 16  SENSUAL  with Effy Wild

 The Inner Child Project:   The Toddler Self 18 months-3 years Part 1  The Toddler is mobile enough to walk away from the caregiver and verbal enough to refuse and protest.  They are learning how to establish and maintain personal boundaries- emotional and physical separations from the caretakers.  This teaches you how to be independent.   Testing how much you  can participate in the outside world and still come back to your caretaker and  be loved is a dynamic you will carry into every relationship.   In The Inner Child Workbook , under the section for the Toddler Self, exercise #1 asks 5 questions  which deal with saying and being told no as well as honoring boundaries.  These question are meant to make you think about your ideas and behaviors now and how they effect your relationships.  Exercise #2 is an extension of thinking about how we carry these issues into our lives today.  This ...

 Journal 52:  Playing Catch Up Week 15- Clarity Week 14- Storm Week 13- Embodied Go to this blog post in order to see all three art journal spreads :-)

The Inner Child Project- The Infant Self The first part of the infant self can be found in my previous blog post  https://messyjessycreates.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-inner-child-project-infant-self_28.html This painting is of me as an infant.  After working through the exercises for this developmental stage of my inner child, I could paint myself as a happy infant. According to Cathryn Taylor in The Inner Child Workbook, There are several steps involved in dealing with childhood pain which are used at each level of child development AKA with each of your inner children. Identify the pain Researching your pain Regressing to the feelings of your self at that level of child inner self Objectifying your pain Grieving your inner child's pain Healing your pain and reclaiming your joy Each of these steps is accompanied by numerous exercises to help you through this journey.  If you are really interested in healing, many of our adult issues come from n...

2018 Moonshine  with Effy Wild  Art Journal Spread  for March 31  Blue Moon in Libra Tree Sign Alder My personal Oracle Card from my Tarot Deck:  Justice

The Inner Child Project- The Guardian This year I have been doing some inner child work (see my other blog posts) and came to the point in the process where I am supposed to create a Guardian to look over and protect my inner children as I do this work.  I happened to be participating in a free mini-class by Ivy Newport (  https://ivynewport.com/spring-fever  ) in which we use our own portrait to create a guardian angel.  While I was working, it just hit me out of nowhere that I should be my own guardian angel- my grown self.  So, I finished the painting and call her "The Guardian" and she will join my other inner child paintings to watch over and protect all of the inner children.

Book of Days Week 13 with Effy Wild "In the Round" https://100mandalas.com/great-round/ Mandalas tell a story.  According to 100mandalas,  there are 12 psychological stagesthat we all go through in life which can be divided into four categories:  milestones, creativity, challenges, and embracing something new.  I chose to combine challenges and embracing something new to create my art journal pages.  I chose to look at sameness and change.  I ended up with a two sided mandala and freejournaling about each.  All of my art journal page was done with Sakura Jelly Roller Pens on black gesso.