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When you’re sick, healing shouldn’t feel like another tedious “to-do.”

Restorative, evidence-informed healing art journaling experiences for women with chronic, autoimmune, and life-altering conditions that calm the nervous system, ease overwhelm, and gently reconnect your body and spirit.

Start Your Healing Journey

Flare Ups, Sleepless Nights, Meds, Appointments, *and* Zero Energy to Function?

Gentle healing art processes give your body and mind a safe, soft space to rest and repair when the outside world feels impossible.

If you don’t pause for that kind of healing, you risk:

  • Staying trapped in cycles of stress, pain, and fatigue

  • Feeling unseen or unsupported in your journey

  • Losing touch with the calm your body needs to recover

  • Carrying emotions that never get safely released

  • Missing out on genuine connection and understanding

  • Letting illness — not healing — define your story

Take a Peaceful Healing Pause

Capacity-based Healing Art for Spoonies Can Help:

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    Calm Your Nervous System

    Evidence-informed art, journaling, & mindfulness practices help your body rest and repair.

  • Reconnect to Yourself

    Gentle creative expression helps you process emotions safely and rebuild self-trust and confidence.

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    Find Support and Belonging

    Experience compassion, community, and understanding among women who truly “get it.”

Without guided healing practices, stress and overwhelm stay trapped in your body.

You remain stuck in survival mode - anxious, fatigued, and disconnected from yourself. Feeling totally alone.

You deserve more than coping. You deserve to heal, and to feel safe, seen, and supported.

Let's get started
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Real Women+ Healing through Art

  • "Taking Katie's classes has helped me tremendously with my confidence in opening up and taking chances. Being a part of a wonderful community has helped me a lot with not only my confidence but also my depression. Creating art and or working on writing helps me a lot. When I create by writing or making some kind of art I'm in my happy place. Feel very happy and free like I can conquer anything. ."

    – Erinn S.

  • "From using art as meditation, introducing me to art supplies that I had never heard before or been intimidated by, trying new styles of art and how to bring a little practice of art into your life everyday - it has been incredible!"

    – Lisa B.

  • "My bonus mom loved class. She's quite far into her dementia journey, but she comes back to us with music and painting. She loved the meditation and the process."

    – Becca

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Katie, a woman with long brown hair, wearing a floral blouse, sitting at a table with an open sketchbook and colorful artwork, in a well-lit living room with plants and a couch in the background.
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Hi, I’m Katie.

I know how isolating it can feel to live in a body that doesn’t always cooperate…

and how exhausting it is to keep searching for relief that lasts.

That’s why I created Inner Peace Art Studio - a gentle, evidence-informed space where healing and creativity meet. I started a sketchbook practice during a serious illness several years ago. It helped me heal and I knew I had to share it with others.

As a trained healing arts practitioner, I draw from Expressive Arts, Therapeutic Art, Mindful Art, and Arts in Health to help women with autoimmune, chronic, and life-threatening illnesses find calm, clarity, and renewed hope through simple, imperfect art rituals.

Read My Healing Art Story

Three Ways to Ease into Healing Art:

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    Healing Art Starter Kit

    A free healing art experience for women ready to create, rest, and heal - one gentle brushstroke at a time.

    Get Your Free Kit
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    Healing Art Academy

    Build your foundation for healing through art with evidence-informed practices with a compassionate guide.

    Learn More
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    Peaceful Painting Club

    Discover how soothing painting rituals can relax your body, and quiet your mind - no art skills needed!

    Let's Paint
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    Workshops & Retreats

    Deepen your healing arts practice through experiences designed to help you rest, reflect, and renew.

    Workshop Schedule

ONE-OF-A-KIND VIRTUAL ART STUDIO

You Don’t Have to Face This Alone.

Living with illness can leave you feeling isolated, depleted, and unsure how to truly heal. At Inner Peace Art Studio, we help women living with autoimmune, chronic, and life-threatening conditions rediscover peace and purpose through gentle, evidence-informed expressive arts.

Our programs combine art, journaling, sound, and mindfulness to calm the nervous system, reduce stress, and nurture whole-person healing.

Guided by compassion and grounded in the science of Arts in Health, we create nurturing spaces where creativity becomes medicine — helping you feel seen, supported, and reconnected with yourself, one breath, one brushstroke, and one word at a time.

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