“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~Louise L. Hay When I first began painting my art over twenty years ago, it was not my intention to paint about self-love.
In fact, at that time, I had no idea what self-love was. I was just painting as a form of therapy. A few years prior, I thought that I did know what self-love was, but then, whenI lost my health to a chronic illness and could no longer do the things I once had been able to do, I lost my ability to love myself.
I also fell into a deep depression, so I decided to create art as a way to lift my spirits. In order to create uplifting art, I first had to look at my life and see where my spirit needed lifting.
That meant that I had to look at my pain and identify its origins. Sometimes it’s not the actual problems in life that cause us to suffer the most but the way we look at them.