ART WRITE HEAL Workshops

10/20/2026

This looks so cool! I’ll definitely be visiting this art installation in both day and night. It’s 5 minutes from where I live! 😍

🌷Sanctuary, a large-scale immersive outdoor art experience by , blooms in Mount Trashmore Park on Oct. 17!

🦋The installation, which is free to visit, is inspired by the wonder of complexity of the natural world, includes more than 4,000 individual elements, including kinetic flowers standing over 17 feet high, moving and singing birds, more than 1,300 butterflies and other imaginative forms.

🎉Celebrate the opening of Sanctuary with a free community celebration from 4-8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Mount Trashmore Park! More details to come, soon.

🎨Sanctuary will be on view from Oct. 17 - Dec. 16, including extended viewing hours until 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays (except Halloween).

Learn more about Sanctuary, where wonder grows, at VirginiaBeach.gov/sanctuary.

Virginia Beach Parks & Recreation

10/09/2026

“Roam”

Finding peace isn’t fast & easy, it’s painfully slow & sometimes hard. At times you may wonder if you’ll ever find it at all.

When peace finally does arrive it slips in so quietly that you’re not always aware it’s there. When you do realize it’s finally come, open the door and let it in.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=665

09/29/2026

“721 days to exhale”

The second grief shows up at your door it settles deep in your body. You feel the tightness in every single muscle. Your jaw stays clenched. You breathe shallow breaths. This becomes your normal way of living; energetically holding your breath, never even realizing you’re doing it.

When you finally move through your grief, reaching that light at the end of the tunnel you thought you’d never see, you experience an energetic exhale. Your body relaxes. Your jaw releases. You take in long, deep breaths. You start to breathe new life in & it feels like being reborn.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=603

09/29/2026

“721 days to exhale”

The second grief shows up at your door it settles deep in your body. You feel the tightness in every single muscle. Your jaw stays clenched. You breathe shallow breaths. This becomes your normal way of living; energetically holding your breath, never even realizing you’re doing it.

When you finally move through your grief, reaching that light at the end of the tunnel you thought you’d never see, you experience an energetic exhale. Your body relaxes. Your jaw releases. You take in long, deep breaths. You start to breathe new life in & it feels like being reborn.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=603

09/26/2026

“The final stage of the grief process isn’t what I imagined it would be”

Acceptance is the final step of the grief process. You make progress towards that stage, but then you backslide & have to start all over again. Reaching acceptance, you finally step into the light at the end of the tunnel that you weren’t sure you’d ever reach.

The stage of acceptance isn’t just about coming to terms with the death of your loved one. It’s also accepting that you can give yourself permission to live again, to be happy again, to love and be loved again.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=600

09/26/2026

“The final stage of the grief process isn’t what I imagined it would be”

Acceptance is the final step of the grief process. You make progress towards that stage, but then you backslide & have to start all over again. Reaching acceptance, you finally step into the light at the end of the tunnel that you weren’t sure you’d ever reach.

The stage of acceptance isn’t just about coming to terms with the death of your loved one. It’s also accepting that you can give yourself permission to live again, to be happy again, to love and be loved again.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=600

09/26/2026

“In order to put yourself back together again, you have to let your grief break you apart”

Grief shatters you into a million pieces. You try to pick those pieces up, but some are lost forever. While crawling through your grief journey new pieces of you will be discovered.

The old & new parts of you get woven together, cemented by the emotional scars from your journey. You were broken, but you can be repaired. You won’t look the same, but you’ll be stronger than you were before.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=596

09/26/2026

“In order to put yourself back together again, you have to let your grief break you apart”

Grief shatters you into a million pieces. You try to pick those pieces up, but some are lost forever. While crawling through your grief journey new pieces of you will be discovered.

The old & new parts of you get woven together, cemented by the emotional scars from your journey. You were broken, but you can be repaired. You won’t look the same, but you’ll be stronger than you were before.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=596

09/26/2026

“Don’t unpack and live there”

Mourning your loved one after their death is human nature. It’s the expectation we all have of how the grief process goes.

Work through your grief. Allow it & make eventual peace with it. But, don’t let living in a perpetual state of mourning be your final destination. Don’t unpack & live there.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=592

09/26/2026

“Don’t unpack and live there”

Mourning your loved one after their death is human nature. It’s the expectation we all have of how the grief process goes.

Work through your grief. Allow it & make eventual peace with it. But, don’t let living in a perpetual state of mourning be your final destination. Don’t unpack & live there.

Read the blog post here—

https://artwriteheal.com/?p=592