Featured Client: Carmen Torbus

I love to celebrate my clients and the magical people who participate in Jamie Ridler Studios.  I hope you’ll enjoy meeting them and be inspired by their stories.

Featured Soul Reflections Client: Carmen Torbus, mixed media artist and workshop leader

website:  www.carmentorbus.com
twitter: @carmentorbus
facebook: http://bit.ly/90mEC3
network: http://torbusco.ning.com/

What are you creating in the world?

This is a difficult question for me to answer.  I know what I would like to create in the world, but I’m not always convinced that I’m actually creating it.  I have to remind myself to not compare my attempts to others’ and to only measure my success with my personal yardstick.

I decided to answer this question with affirmations… affirmations that I will continue to use as my mantra as long as necessary:

• I am creating BLISS for myself and anyone that wants to follow along.
• I’m creating ART that encourages connection, validates emotion and nourishes the soul.
• I am creating DREAMS… big ones.  Dreams that require the use of words like daring, joyous, productive, bold, brave and fierce.
• I’m creating my dream business through sharing my passion for art, personal growth and creativity.
• I’m creating a life and no longer just allowing life to happen to me.
• And most importantly, I’m creating situations that allow me to shout at the top of my lungs to anyone that will listen…

CREATE your BLISS!
CREATE ART!
CREATE the life of your DREAMS!

How did Soul Reflections help?

Soul Reflections helped me clearly see my hearts deepest desires and wishes.  In the few short hours I spent, much was revealed to me, about me.

I loved connecting with the images in the magazines, searching for things that jumped out at me; color, shapes, words that inspire, affirm and validate.  Seeking among them, comfort, challenge, risk, desire and emotion. The sound of tearing paper and the sticky feeling of glue on my fingers added to the experience.  Bliss.  Pure and simple.  A clear reflection of my soul and how I felt at that moment.

I learned that a red leather sofa makes me giddy.  I almost didn’t include that image.  I thought it was a little silly, but a few days later while tagging along to the furniture store with my mother-in-law, I found the very sofa I hope to own someday.  It is even better than the one I envisioned when I ripped it out of that magazine.  When I sat on it, I melted.  Smooth.  Soft.  Comforting. Validating.  It felt like home and I can picture it in my house, in my front room.  I visualize where it will sit and I see myself sitting there… writing…  dreaming… planning… enjoying… being.

I also realized how much I adore the atmosphere of cozy coffee shops and how getting lost in thought and day dreams inspire me.  I acknowledged that words and fonts and trees and mandala-like doodles are just as inspiring.  As is the beach… and lime green.

I found that the images I selected were ones that were encouraging, positive, comforting, inspiring and blissful… all attributes of the kind of person I strive to be.

What I love most about the Soul Reflections process is that it gives permission to seek, wonder and dream.   It gives me freedom to explore and reveal more about me, to me.  I look forward to going through this process again and again.

Thank you so much Jamie for a wonderfully fulfilling e-course and for asking me to share my experience.

If you’d like to take the Soul Reflections workshop too, the e-version is available for purchase right here. Enjoy!

Tagged as: Soul Reflections, Workshops

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