The Healing Project Collection

Abstract Acrylics & Mixed Media on Canvas

🎨 Featuring Alisha Wielfaert of Yoke and Abundance
📍 Rioja Wine Bar
📅 Saturday, August 9th
🕕 6:00 PM

In early 2025, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a shock — and a wake-up call. I knew I wanted to approach healing with intention, presence, and a deep reconnection to myself. As part of that process, I began with a prolonged water fast — 17 days of stillness, clarity, and recalibration.

Life on the other side of that fast has been different. I’ve made sweeping changes — to my diet (I’m now eating to heal cancer, and while I ate well before, this is an entirely new way of nourishing myself), to my work (to calm my nervous system and reduce stress), and to how I show up with friends, family, and clients — all in the name of healing.

After the fast, I returned to my canvas. I began making art for healing — art that helped me feel like I was healing as I created it. Art that held my fear, my hope, my trust, my faith. Every mark became a prayer, a release, a reclamation.

Because of this healing project, I’ve changed — and so has my art. This collection contains two distinct styles: the work from before the fast, and a new style that’s emerging as I explore fresh techniques in layering, texture, and blending. These shifts reflect deeper layers of emotion, balance, and color.

Even though the newer pieces look markedly different from the first eight in the collection, they remain part of The Healing Project Collection. They belong here because they show the evolution — not just of my art, but of me. These works trace a journey of transformation, one canvas at a time.

My deepest hope is that these paintings resonate with others on their own path of healing — whether you’re navigating grief, illness, burnout, heartbreak, or simply the quiet unraveling and becoming that life asks of us. May you see yourself in these pieces. May they remind you that healing is not linear — but it is possible, and it is beautiful.