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Grief Painter™: Faith Harrison
Facilitator:  Marsha Carnahan

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Faith's Words

Although I created Grief Painter™ I had not gone through the process myself.  My first time through the journey was profound.  I was grieving over a lost love.  The man I was falling in love with was diagnosed with cancer and passed away a few years later.  I knew in my heart that our love was not meant to be as he was the father of many - there was no time left to create something new.  I was set aside so he could focus on the end of what he had already cultivated in his life.  I associated him with coyote or wolf as his spirit animal. The night before I painted I imagined painting a phoenix or fire of some sort but what came was a heart that looked cosmic.  The next day I turned it upside down to find coyote.  One of the my favorite things about Grief Painter™ is the different images that appear later...personal messages from beyond.