"I had never even visualized peace until I had to give it a color and place it on my canvas."
​Maria

Grief Painter™  Expressive Transformational Art is a creative grief painting process designed to connect you with your emotions around grief and other uncomfortable feelings with which we struggle.

When we cannot face or come to terms with our losses the world around us can seem unbearable.  We learn to stifle the uncomfortable feelings and muddle through life. These muted emotions create havoc in our health and our relationships - buried inside waiting to explode.  

Grief Painter™ is a guided painting journey through feelings that will hopefully allow you to navigate them more freely. Plus, you will have a beautiful keepsake in remembrance.  

You do not need to be an artist, the paintings emerge through the process - each one beautiful and meaningful.

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"Amazing things were showing up in my painting that I never anticipated. It proved to me our spirits so deeply connected, which was something I was questioning over and over again after his death."
​Katherine

"With my painting I really sense this raw primordial energy that is both ancient and relevant at the same time, speaking a language that has no words that my intellectual mind can ascertain. It is more of a language that is felt through the heart."
​Troy

"Admittedly, I felt a little scared at the intensity of the emotions that I was being guided to translate into a visual representation. AND, it was shockingly and beautifully liberating." Kristen
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How it Helps

Grief Painter™ helps by offering us a way to explore intense feelings, memories, and consciousness levels creatively and expressively with paint. Colors, textures, sound, taste and smell helps us to associate the feelings with a new experience so when they arise again we have help holding them. 

Who it Helps

Grief Painter™ can help anyone who wants to memorialize a lost loved one, or wants to work out feelings about another kind of loss, or a sense of loss in self for feelings like anger, depression, jealousy, addictions, rejection, chronic illness, disease and more.  It can also help if you are support person or love someone who is suffering.  You do not need to be an artist to be a Grief Painter™.  

The Process

The Grief Painter™ process, created by Faith Harrison and  inspired by the works of Elisabeth_Kübler-Ross, Dr, David Hawkins, Al-Anon, cycles of addiction and other guiding principles for healing emotions.

Faith developed the levels/stages into meaningful layers of paint in which each is explored in the process.