Devorah Brinkerhoff shares how her innovative Soul Portraits methodology combines art therapy, creative expression, and somatic healing to help people transform trauma into empowerment. Discover how working with your hands can release stuck emotions and reconnect you with your authentic self.

In this episode you'll learn:

🎨 How mixed media art and creative expression can bypass your thinking mind and access somatic (body-based) healing

💭 Why talking about your problems isn't enough—and how your body holds the answers that traditional talk therapy alone can't reach

📝 The transformational 3-step Soul Portraits process: honoring your past, anchoring who you are today, and calling in your future self

✨ How to use tangible materials (letters, journals, photographs) to process stuck emotions and move toxic energy through creative work

🧠 The science behind somatic healing: why emotional trauma lives in your body and how to release it

💪 Real stories of trauma recovery: how divorce, grief, shame, and complex trauma are transformed through body-based art therapy

🎯 How to start your own creative healing practice—even if you don't think you're "creative"

🌱 Why creativity (art, cooking, gardening, music, dance) connects you to your divinity and greatest wisdom for self-healing

Episode Resources

Episode Transcript, Resources & Conversation: https://www.whiterobinwellness.com/podcast/transform-trauma-into-empowerment-healing-through-creativity

Meet Your Guest

Devorah Brinckerhoff is a professional artist and transformational guide who developed Soul Portraits—a healing methodology that combines artistic expression with spiritual work to help people transform trauma into empowerment. With 30+ years as a gallery-represented artist, she discovered her most powerful work emerged when she stopped creating for external approval and began using art to dissolve limiting beliefs. She now guides others through creating their own Soul Portraits, using creative practices to shed old stories and discover their authentic selves. Working from her home studio in Oregon, she facilitates workshops both in-person and virtually, drawing on her own journey through personal trauma to help clients externalize their inner landscape and transform pain into power.

Connect with Devorah:

• Website: https://www.soulportrait.art/workshop
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deborah.brinckerhoff
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/@devorahbrinckerhoff
• Inner Voice Exercise: a free way to start your own healing creative journey: https://soulportrait.art/innervoice

About Your Host

Jennifer Robin is a wellness researcher and Certified Canfield Trainer authorized to teach The Success Principles. She combines personal development coaching with energy and emotional wellness practices—including EFT Tapping, Reiki, and Qi Gong—to help you build resilience, clarity, and lasting change.

Find Jennifer:

• Website: https://whiterobinwellness.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferchaseokeefe/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whiterobinwell/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhiteRobinWell/

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