This is me #unfiltered

Published: Thu, 12/15/16

It's so easy to hide.

It's so easy to make it pretty...

to tolerate and say nothing. Be the nice girl.

The mannered Mother, the calm Wise One. The triple boxed in Goddess.

This painting came from a cycle of rage flowing through my veins as I wake up out of the denial and into a deeper reality of truth. And I was pissed. Early morning trash dumpster trucks and baby teething, crying, too many of us running from the responsibility of our deep inner work to end trauma on this planet only to cause more and more pain.

It's time to break the cycles and those of us with privilege and resources must take inspired action. Its time for us all to get real, to change the way we live our values and create a better way.

But we must get angry first. We must be the change.

So I grabbed my baby this morning put her on my hip, all blurry eyed and hit the studio. It is my medicine, my Alchemy, my magic. And I let the oppressed one speak, I liberated all the voices that felt silenced, shamed and hidden. It was and always is so liberating, so freeing and clears the way toward empowered inspired action.

No more numbing, denying and complying. No more betrayal. No more abuse. When we free our anger with paint and paper it is expressed rather than repressed which only turns into deep hatred of the self.

So remember when you feel the pulses of anger and rage, do not deny their calling or their message, it is time for inspired action.

We need your anger and your action.

Of course, your raw anger needs an outlet, rather than being projected unconsciously onto others. That is why paint and paper are excellent ways to alchemize, to hold, to contain, transform and bear witness to your emotions. E-nergy-in-Motion. If we don't allow this natural flow of creative life-force we get stuck. The world get's stuck.

Start with your emotions. We need your truth, the world needs it as we all need to take responsibility now more than ever to heal, grow and evolve. We need to get honest with ourselves and each other and we need healthy containers for authentic self-expression to come into congruency with our deepest most honest selves.

Join me this January for The Shaman's Brew Retreat and ring in 2017 with your own personal, supported creative alchemy journey in the studio, together we will step into inspired action.

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painting by Susan Sedden-Boulet

Shaman's Brew 2017

Fill Up Your Cup

...for you.

A Creative Alchemy Retreat

Saturday & Sunday January 7 & 8 2017

at Melissa's private studio in Austin, TX

Space is limited to 6 painters.

Calling all Mystics, Healers, Therapists, Coaches, Change Agents, Transformation Facilitators, Visionary Artists and Freedom Fighters… this retreat is for YOU!

The time is now for light workers and our vision must be wide and clear. We will journey out with the old, and in with the new filling up our cup for a potent year of creativity and service.

This two day, non-residential transformative art retreat is designed to support you in ringing in the new year with your highest vision of change, service and potential for 2017.

2016 was a 9 year in numerology, the year of purification and completion of a 9 year cycle of growth and development. And boy have we seen it, the human shadow has come into the light and is seeking acceptance, love, and integration for a higher way of being in the world, both individually and collectively.

Now more than ever it is up to the shamans, the artists and visionary leaders to guide us into creating a new world. 2017 is a 1 year, birthing this new cycle of development. It has never been more important for healers and artists to identify and live their life’s purpose, calling and transmute the trauma from the past, and then guiding others to do this as well.

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I look forward to seeing you in the studio!

With love + passion + unabashed creativity...

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A B O U T M E L I S S A D ' A N T O N I

Melissa D'Antoni is the visionary force behind Fire Tree Studios. After leaving a highly-successful-by-certain-standards-yet-unfulfilling career in Internet and technology marketing, Melissa set out to pursue her real passion---Creative Self Expression and to live a truly empowered and inspired life.

A vision keeper and creative catalyst for the last 15 years, she inspires others on their journey of Self-Realization in order to transform their art, life and business, with passion and practicality. Fire Tree Studios offers intuitive painting retreats, Ignite your Life & Coaching Programs, The Phoenix Rising Experience, The Art of Entrepreneurship and The Fire Tree Method Creative Catalyst Training Program to serve clients in unlocking their full potential, on the canvas and off.

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