Emerge: The Art of Conscious Choice
Life can be hard, can’t it?
From the time we’re born, we get conditioned by our families, society, the past, and even our genetics. We grow up knowing what we know, and not knowing how to question what we don’t know. We deny our authentic wants and needs. We’re taught that perfection is power, and self-sacrifice makes us worthy.
I was in my forties the first time I realized I could make conscious choices about, well, anything. What a shock! And what disappointment. It can be so disappointing and so frustrating to realize, at any stage of life, how much we don’t know about human-ing.
Is this you?
- You tried and tried but never attained that “perfect” thing – perfect body, perfect life, perfect job, lots of money. You think you must be defective. Or maybe you did achieve great heights only to realize you’re still unsatisfied.
- You’ve got a general sense of, “Is this all there is?” You thought life was going to be different, even though you’re not exactly sure what that means.
- You let others monopolize your time, do everything asked of you. But you look around and think, When’s it my turn? Resentment is building. Anger is brewing.
- You’re anxious, habitually second-guessing yourself and others. In your mind, you pick apart every conversation and assume the worst. Your constant need for reassurance is draining to others and yourself. You feel exhausted, longing for peace, but don’t know how to get it.
- You know you’re falling apart, not coping with the life that’s swirling in and around you. You’re overindulging: wine, shopping, television. In fact, life is a shit-show and you feel frustrated and guilty with no end in sight.
Whatever your story is – you aren’t broken and you never were. You don’t need to be fixed. What you need is to be released, guided by your true nature and your intuition. Not society “out there.”
You might be wondering, Is it too late for me?
There’s no wrong time to take responsibility for creating the life we want. No one else can do it for us.
Emerge: The Art of Conscious Choice
A 12-week, group program designed as a deep dive into ritual and creativity to transform your life experience.
Learn the tools: Emerge uses mindfulness and meditation, writing, and simple collage to explore the topics of values, self-care, gratitude, and compassion in a conscious way. Meet your authentic self: Each one of these components is explored individually, as well as how they work together symbiotically to foster healing, growth, and living in more grounded awareness. Emerge is designed to support you in:
- Cultivating self-love, acceptance, empathy, and compassion within a nurturing community environment
- Building resilience and finding peace through safe exploration of personal challenges and successes
- Gaining clarity on personal barriers and learning to take intentional, impactful actions
- Enjoying a fun, repeatable journey to self-discovery, in which you can embrace joy and freedom from restrictive beliefs
- Transforming negative thoughts and feelings into positive actions and self-forgiveness, leading to an empowered sense of direction and embodied understanding
Transform Challenges into Choices
Transform your life.
Are you ready to explore, understand, and embrace your unique path? Learn how to navigate life’s complexities with confidence and emerge into your true potential.
Get announcements about upcoming program dates!
Twelve Weeks to Transform with Emerge
Emerge consists of 6 modules we explore in live group sessions every other week. The weeks without live sessions are designed to help you explore and integrate the lessons from each module in every day life – AND you have the option to upgrade with 6 personalized, 1:1 sessions with me.
Once you enroll for Emerge, you’ll get a confirmation email with program specifics and the list of simple, necessary supplies. Each gathering will have meditation time, an instruction component, writing prompt, time for Q&A, collage, and, mostly importantly, conversation.
Learn the tools. Why meditation? Why writing? Why creativity? Why making conscious choices? You’ll get answers, and you’ll create your own compelling why statement.
Meet your authentic self. In this module, we delve into aligning with our personal truth. You’ll identify 3 core values, learn why they matter, and how to rely on them.
We have major misperceptions about what self-care is, why it’s important, and what gets in the way. You’ll identify 3 practical self-care tools (at least) and make a plan to actually use them. Practices you can use almost anywhere and anytime and that don’t break the bank.
We can’t appreciate what we’re not conscious enough to notice. When times get tough, we need something tried and true to get us back on track. Gratitude practice is it. And it’s even more than that!
Compassion is a skillset that connects us more deeply to our vulnerability and to others in our shared common humanity. We can’t be seen by others until we can clearly see ourselves. We’ll dig into the skills, identify key tangible actions, and foster harmony through reduced judgment.
Transform your life. Imagine knowing that no matter what, you have a plan for transformation, a concrete path to follow. Imagine feeling a quiet, calm determination in your chest. You’re now committed to a journey of connection, health, and healing. Imagine knowing you never have to feel alone again. You’ve wanted and needed a new way forward and now you have one. Tools for life along with fellow travelers on the path.
This class was better than my therapy!
– E.M.
From previous students
“In class, I finally understood the role discomfort plays in a healing journey. [Emerge] offered a lot of insight. 10 out of 10.
– Jan P.
“Did this class meet my expectations? YES! yes, yes yes!
Creating a Toolkit with tools I use, like writing and art, and then actually using it when I need to has changed everything!”
– Shari S.
“[Before I joined Emerge] I was having a lot of anxiety. Class inspired me to create new tools and use them. My self-care is better and my anxiety is reduced! I’m taking better care of myself and it’s improving all my relationships. But especially with my adult son and daughter.”
– Sue S.
What happens when you Emerge?
Imagine the possibilities that can unfold in your life! You can approach each day with a sense of wonder and engagement, trusting in your choices and celebrating your voice and space in the world. Joy and peace become more steady companions. Navigate life’s complexities with calm confidence and an open heart.
This is the transformative power of Emerge: The Art of Conscious Choice – it’s a journey to flourish.
By connecting more consciously with the self, we grow the ability to connect more consciously with others – deepening the intimacy and harmony in our relationships.
Transition from isolating and ruminative thinking to establish healthy boundaries, value self-care, and affirm your own worth, even when life throws challenges your way.
Find your way through pain, powerlessness or suffering with newfound understanding and strategies for providing care and support while honoring both your needs and the needs of others.
Instead of wrestling with vulnerability and confusion, emerge with more strength and support to face emotions head-on, finding clarity and courage to be your authentic self.
Overcome indecisiveness by understanding its roots, affirming that your feelings and thoughts are valid and worthy of attention, and silencing the inner critic that judges both self and others.
Transform fear and self-doubt into a deep-seated trust in yourself, wrapped in the warmth of unconditional self-love and a nurturing self-care practice that starts from within.
Grant yourself permission to be fully present, reconnecting mind and body to savor life’s experiences with joy, breaking free from patterns that no longer serve your well-being.
Want to join in? Get announcements about upcoming program dates!
Emerge: The Specifics
What’s included
- 6 weeks @ 2 hours per session = 12 hours of live instruction
- 6 weeks to explore and integrate the lessons in every day life – and the option to upgrade with 6 personalized, 1:1 sessions with me.
- Ongoing attention and support from me for the duration of the program
- Reminder emails with attachments and instructions for the upcoming session
- Follow up emails with more suggestions to move the latest session material from theory to practice
- PLEASE NOTE: NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY! And you do NOT need any traditional artistic skills to enjoy the benefits of creative play.
Your Investment
$599.00*
*Please note that both scholarships and payment plans are available in order to accommodate a variety of financial situations. If this would help support you in joining the program, please contact me!
Participation
There is a 3-student minimum requirement for the program to begin.
Common Questions
Reliable internet for the Zoom calls, as well as a quiet area where you won’t be disturbed for the duration of each 2 hour session.
Each week, you’ll want to have handy the latest email attachments, your journal, pen, collaging supplies, and an open heart.
It’s completely normal to feel hesitant about certain practices like meditation, art, or journaling, especially if past experiences weren’t positive. The goal for Emerge is to leave the past outside the scope of the weekly sessions, in order to allow for new experiences with these tools. Breakthrough often comes when we approach the practice free of preconceived notions.
For instance, two participants in a recent session were initially reluctant to use writing as a tool. Their past experiences with journaling were unhelpful, even negative. But during the course, faced with real-life challenges, they chose to navigate the situations by writing letters. To their surprise, they found the approach profoundly helpful. It wasn’t the act of writing itself that had been the issue; it was how they’d used it.
In Emerge, we explore not just the ‘why’ behind the tools but also the ‘how.’ I always encourage experimentation and adaptation to suit your individual needs and preferences. So, if a particular practice doesn’t resonate with you, that’s perfectly fine. We’ll work together to find what does resonate. The key is being willing to try in new and personalized ways, so you can discover how to support yourself in self-exploration and personal growth.
Enroll here! Once you’re signed up, you’ll receive a welcome email from me with everything you need to know.
Elevate Your Experience with Personal Sessions
Personalized, 1:1 sessions with me offer a nurturing space for you to delve deeper into your unique challenges and growth areas. These sessions are designed to provide you with tailored guidance and compassionate support, helping you uncover profound insights and make meaningful strides on your journey toward self-discovery, stronger connections, and conscious living. Together, we’ll focus on your individual needs, creating a transformative and impactful experience that fosters resilience and self-love.
1:1 sessions are scheduled on the weeks between group sessions and offer additional instruction and materials, including a special gift at the end of the program!
Get more out of Emerge
For a limited time only – when you add personal support to the Emerge program, you get one session FREE!
In case we haven’t met…
Hi, I’m Tracey
My daughter was diagnosed with severe depression when she was thirteen years old and our world was upended. I couldn’t foresee it at the time, but I ended up grateful for the challenges we faced, the ways we worked together to grow and to heal. My mission is to create a safe space for women to use art and words to figure out who they are and what they want. Vulnerability is scary, and it’s more important than ever for us to come together in community for support.
Emerge into your fullest expression
Life can be full of discomfort. One thing we don’t talk enough about is how even making healthier, more healing, grounded choices can still feel “bad” or uncomfortable for a while. That discomfort is a gift! Breaking patterns that we’ve had since childhood or even birth, no longer doing what we’ve done, can be VERY, VERY hard. Even when the old ways don’t actually feel good, it can be a shock to realize that making different choices, healthier choices can be so damn hard, can still feel so damn uncomfortable. To us and those around us! I get how confusing it can all be. I’ve been there.
Being in community helps. And I know for sure that once you glimpse and, more importantly, feel the liberation on the other side of those new choices, you won’t want to turn back.
Real, Down-to-Earth Road Map
Get a roadmap, from someone who’s been there – me! Because of the suffering I experienced, hitting my personal emotional rock bottom and finding my way back, I’ve earned wisdom about living in more awareness. I’ve learned how to connect with myself and others more consciously, and how to work with what gets in the way. Along with this personal experience, I pull inspiration from some great, inspiring minds, including: Brené Brown, Eckhart Tolle, David Whyte, Mark Nepo, bell hooks, Liz Gilbert, Tara Brach, and Nicole LePera.
Practical, Adaptable Tools
Put tools, like mindfulness, creativity, and writing, among others, into a Toolkit you’ll build that you will actually use in real life. We’ll consciously use discomfort to disrupt old patterns and create opportunity for growth and healing. Permission is granted for you to think outside the box, and discern tools that work for you.
Community & Connection
Supercharge your growth through knowledge in community, and have fun with like-minded folks in a safe and supportive environment. This is a community to share thoughts, feelings, fears, concerns, and inspiration. People who are on the same journey. On this path, we’re constantly learning from one another, being inspired by what others are doing that works. Learning in action.
And, when you “graduate,” you can continue in community with Emerge Ongoing sessions and/or dig deeper into art with the heArt journaling class.
[Emerge] helped me finally get that it’s okay to take the time for myself and not feel guilty about it. Emerge allowed me to engage in deep questioning, which allowed me to move on [after class] in the way that’s most authentic to me.
– Jeni D.
Interested in Emerge: the Art of Conscious Choice?
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Emerge is a transformative group experience, where little steps add up to create big shifts. It’s an opportunity to peel back the curtain to your own thoughts and discover new ways to heal and grow.
Join ‘Emerge’ to break old patterns and welcome a life of authenticity, self-care, and resilience. Together, let’s explore how to make our hearts and minds sing.
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