THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST ALIVE TODAY
IS THE ONE LIVING INSIDE OF YOU.
BELIEVE IT, TRUST IT.
ALLOW YOUR INHERENT CREATIVITY TO UNFOLD.
IS THE ONE LIVING INSIDE OF YOU.
BELIEVE IT, TRUST IT.
ALLOW YOUR INHERENT CREATIVITY TO UNFOLD.
AS AN ARTIST AND HEALER,
ELIZABETH IZZO IS A STUDENT OF AND CHANGE AGENT
FOR CREATING A NEW STORY.
HER PASSION IS TO GUIDE OTHERS INTO THEIR OWN CREATIVE PROCESS AS A TOOL FOR PERSONAL
GROWTH - EVOLUTION.
HERSTORY...
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FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE AS A COMPLEX TRAUMA SURVIVOR, SPECIAL NEEDS, MENTAL AND CHRONIC HEALTH, PLUS END OF LIFE CAREGIVER, ELIZABETH BEGAN TO EXPLORE HOW SHE COULD INFLUENCE HER OWN PATH OF RECOVERY AND HEALING OUTSIDE OF A SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT ONLY NOT IMPROVING HER WELLBEING, BUT ACTUALLY UNDERMINING IT THROUGH IATROGENESIS (MEDICAL HARM). SHE BEGAN TO GROUP TOGETHER AND EMPLOY TOOLS AS A PRACTICE TO HELP HER NAVIGATE A PATH OF ADVERSITY. SHE WAS ALSO ABLE TO DEVELOP NEW TOOLS WHICH SUPPORT CONNECTION, WELLBEING AND INTEGRATION, WHAT SHE CALLS A RE-MEMBERING PROCESS, THROUGH DOWNLOADED TRANSMISSIONS AND REAL TIME APPLICATIONS.
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ELIZABETH SERVES AS A GUIDE TO OTHERS FOR BECOMING EMPOWERED BY THEIR OWN STORY AND A WILLINGNESS TO EXPLORE THEMSELVES THROUGH FRESH APPROACHES TO PERSONAL GROWTH WITH THE POTENTIAL OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL SHIFT. SHE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT OPENING TO PRESENCE. THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO ACHIEVE THIS INCLUDING THROUGH AN ARTISTIC PROCESS.
"THE MEDITATIVE STATE WHICH OCCURS THROUGH CREATIVE FLOW
IS A WAY TO CONNECT WITH UNCONSCIOUS PARTS OF OURSELVES
AND TO BECOME OPEN TO NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING
WHAT OPTIONS WE HAVE. WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT OURSELVES
THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION IS COMPARABLE
TO GROWING OUR IMAGINATIONS".
SHE HAS STUDIED MINDFULNESS AND PRACTICES A MINDFUL APPROACH TO WHAT IS UNIQUELY ARISING FOR HER, AS A MEANS TO BECOME A WITNESS TO THIS EXPERIENCE. AN EXPANDED AND ONGOING LIST OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION IS LISTED HERE.
"THROUGH THE WITNESSING EXPERIENCE, THERE IS A WAY FORWARD IN SEEING AND
THEN LETTING GO OF AN ATTACHMENT TO THE PAINFUL EXPERIENCE.
WE ARE NOT OUR PAINFUL EXPERIENCES".
THEN LETTING GO OF AN ATTACHMENT TO THE PAINFUL EXPERIENCE.
WE ARE NOT OUR PAINFUL EXPERIENCES".
2019, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS WITH DIGITAL EFFECTS. ELIZABETH IZZO
ELIZABETH NAVIGATED A SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY AND A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AS A PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT WHILE RECKLESSLY BEING WITHDRAWN FROM PRESCRIBED PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION WITHOUT A TAPER.
SHE SPENT YEARS RESEARCHING THIS NOT UNCOMMON PHENOMENON WHILE EDUCATING HERSELF ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS SO THAT SHE COULD LIBERATE HERSELF OF THEIR INFLUENCE AND PROTECT HERSELF FROM LONG TERM HARM DUE TO CHRONIC USE. THE WITHDRAWAL EVENT WAS CATASTROPHIC FOR HER NERVOUS SYSTEMS AND RESULTED IN CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS - FURTHER COMPLICATED BY ADDITIONAL TRAUMA AND SUBSEQUENT IATROGENESIS.
WHILE STUDYING PLANT MEDICINE DURING A TIME OF LIVING IN AN ARTS COLLECTIVE IN PORTLAND, OREGON, SHE DEEPENED INTO HER APPROACH FOR HOLISTIC RESPONSES. SHE RETURNED TO SHAMANIC PRACTICES, PREVIOUSLY ACCESSED, TO UNDERSTAND HER OWN LIFE EXPERIENCES AS INITIATIONS INTO A CALLING AS AN ESOTERIC PRACTITIONER IN THE FIELD OF INTUITIVE HEALING ARTS.
THROUGH UNCERTAINTY, CHANGE AND ADVERSITY, SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO RECONNECT WITH HERSELF AND MAKE SENSE OF INNER AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES THROUGH A "RETURN" TO ARTMAKING - OFTEN UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS AS A WAY TO BEGIN ANEW, TO BE OPEN TO NEW PROCESSES AND EXPERIMENTATION. THIS IS A WAY TO RESPOND TO A DYNAMIC LIFE PATH. HER INTERESTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INSPIRED BY THE INQUIRY AND UNFOLDMENT OF THE CREATIVE AND PSYCHOSPIRITUAL LENSES. SHE ALIGNS WITH A TRANSPERSONAL COSMOLOGY.
THE GURU IS WITHIN:
AS AN UNMASKED WOMAN AND SPIRITUAL JOURNEYER, SHE BELIEVES THAT BECOMING OUR AUTHENTIC SELVES, AND AVAILABLE FOR THE UNFOLDMENT OF EMERGENT ENERGIES - INCLUDING GUIDED OR SELF GUIDED ARTMAKING PRACTICES, GIFTS US WITH A CERTAIN KIND OF INNER WISDOM BYWAY OF ITS CREATIVE PROCESS.
THIS KIND OF PROCESS WORK IS A PRACTICE. IT BEGINS WITH A WILLINGNESS TO TAKE EACH STEP AS INTENDED BY DIVINE DESIGN, ONE AT A TIME WHILE BEFRIENDING OURSELVES ALONG THIS JOURNEY.
"IT IS THROUGH A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH OF BOTH ACCEPTING YOURSELF JUST AS YOU ARE WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY CHANGE - WHICH CAN BE ACHIEVED THROUGH DIFFERENT AND NEW CONSCIOUS CHOICES, ONLY FOLLOWS THAT FULL ACCEPTANCE AND AN EMBRACE OF WHO WE ARE TODAY".
THIS WORK IS PROCESS ORIENTED. ANY TRANSFORMATION IS ACHIEVED THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION AND REPETITION OF EMPLOYING NEW PRACTICES WHICH HELP YOU LEARN TO CHOOSE NEW WAYS OF BEING IN THE WORLD WHICH ARE MORE OPTIMALLY ALIGNED WITH YOUR OWN SENSE OF WELLBEING AND CONNECTION, ONE STEP AT A TIME.
ELIZABETH IS CURRENTLY STUDYING MYSTICISM WITH SPIRITUAL TEACHER AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA EXPERT, THOMAS HUBL. SHE HAS BEEN A U.S.REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER/JOURNEYER WITH THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION'S, LIVING THE NEW STORY, SERIES 1-3 SINCE 2016.
HER BACKGROUND IS IN NON-MEDICAL HEALTHCARE, ARTS AND ARTS PROGRAMMING FACILITATION, EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM.
SHE HOLDS HER BGS FROM INDIANA UNIVERSITY AS A FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE GRADUATE ADULT RETURNING STUDENT AND SCHOLAR, AND IS A NATIVE CHICAGOAN.
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SHE SPENT YEARS RESEARCHING THIS NOT UNCOMMON PHENOMENON WHILE EDUCATING HERSELF ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS SO THAT SHE COULD LIBERATE HERSELF OF THEIR INFLUENCE AND PROTECT HERSELF FROM LONG TERM HARM DUE TO CHRONIC USE. THE WITHDRAWAL EVENT WAS CATASTROPHIC FOR HER NERVOUS SYSTEMS AND RESULTED IN CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS - FURTHER COMPLICATED BY ADDITIONAL TRAUMA AND SUBSEQUENT IATROGENESIS.
WHILE STUDYING PLANT MEDICINE DURING A TIME OF LIVING IN AN ARTS COLLECTIVE IN PORTLAND, OREGON, SHE DEEPENED INTO HER APPROACH FOR HOLISTIC RESPONSES. SHE RETURNED TO SHAMANIC PRACTICES, PREVIOUSLY ACCESSED, TO UNDERSTAND HER OWN LIFE EXPERIENCES AS INITIATIONS INTO A CALLING AS AN ESOTERIC PRACTITIONER IN THE FIELD OF INTUITIVE HEALING ARTS.
THROUGH UNCERTAINTY, CHANGE AND ADVERSITY, SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO RECONNECT WITH HERSELF AND MAKE SENSE OF INNER AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES THROUGH A "RETURN" TO ARTMAKING - OFTEN UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS AS A WAY TO BEGIN ANEW, TO BE OPEN TO NEW PROCESSES AND EXPERIMENTATION. THIS IS A WAY TO RESPOND TO A DYNAMIC LIFE PATH. HER INTERESTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INSPIRED BY THE INQUIRY AND UNFOLDMENT OF THE CREATIVE AND PSYCHOSPIRITUAL LENSES. SHE ALIGNS WITH A TRANSPERSONAL COSMOLOGY.
THE GURU IS WITHIN:
AS AN UNMASKED WOMAN AND SPIRITUAL JOURNEYER, SHE BELIEVES THAT BECOMING OUR AUTHENTIC SELVES, AND AVAILABLE FOR THE UNFOLDMENT OF EMERGENT ENERGIES - INCLUDING GUIDED OR SELF GUIDED ARTMAKING PRACTICES, GIFTS US WITH A CERTAIN KIND OF INNER WISDOM BYWAY OF ITS CREATIVE PROCESS.
THIS KIND OF PROCESS WORK IS A PRACTICE. IT BEGINS WITH A WILLINGNESS TO TAKE EACH STEP AS INTENDED BY DIVINE DESIGN, ONE AT A TIME WHILE BEFRIENDING OURSELVES ALONG THIS JOURNEY.
"IT IS THROUGH A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH OF BOTH ACCEPTING YOURSELF JUST AS YOU ARE WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY CHANGE - WHICH CAN BE ACHIEVED THROUGH DIFFERENT AND NEW CONSCIOUS CHOICES, ONLY FOLLOWS THAT FULL ACCEPTANCE AND AN EMBRACE OF WHO WE ARE TODAY".
THIS WORK IS PROCESS ORIENTED. ANY TRANSFORMATION IS ACHIEVED THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION AND REPETITION OF EMPLOYING NEW PRACTICES WHICH HELP YOU LEARN TO CHOOSE NEW WAYS OF BEING IN THE WORLD WHICH ARE MORE OPTIMALLY ALIGNED WITH YOUR OWN SENSE OF WELLBEING AND CONNECTION, ONE STEP AT A TIME.
ELIZABETH IS CURRENTLY STUDYING MYSTICISM WITH SPIRITUAL TEACHER AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA EXPERT, THOMAS HUBL. SHE HAS BEEN A U.S.REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER/JOURNEYER WITH THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION'S, LIVING THE NEW STORY, SERIES 1-3 SINCE 2016.
HER BACKGROUND IS IN NON-MEDICAL HEALTHCARE, ARTS AND ARTS PROGRAMMING FACILITATION, EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM.
SHE HOLDS HER BGS FROM INDIANA UNIVERSITY AS A FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE GRADUATE ADULT RETURNING STUDENT AND SCHOLAR, AND IS A NATIVE CHICAGOAN.
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In SHAMANISM, trauma, loss and illness can be experienced as a kind of soul fragmentation when left unmetabolized. We have learned that the body holds wounding. However, there is a gift within the wound, a crack where the light gets in...this gift is the needed entryway towards personal and soul evolution. In Elizabeth's experience, the path of SHAMANISM is a direct path of revelation with a deeply guided communion with Spiritual forces. She has been able to move through great adversity embracing herself as interconnected to all of life, knowing that life is in relationship with her and that wisdom is always informing through the unconscious, symbolism, dreams, synchronicities, nature, art...Shamanic artmaking is a tool to inform, to give form to what is unconscious, to midwife emerging stories.
Her current passion involves taking her own lived experiences, wisdom, tools and creative gifts forward into the world as a facilitator. She is currently certifying as a Community Health Worker and Chronic Care Health Coach from Bloomington, Indiana. She plans to bring creative pathways to underserved and marginalized populations through expressive opportunities that stimulate a need for creative and self-authored empowerment while navigating adversity.
Read more about her journey utilizing artmaking as SOUL RETRIEVAL.
Her current passion involves taking her own lived experiences, wisdom, tools and creative gifts forward into the world as a facilitator. She is currently certifying as a Community Health Worker and Chronic Care Health Coach from Bloomington, Indiana. She plans to bring creative pathways to underserved and marginalized populations through expressive opportunities that stimulate a need for creative and self-authored empowerment while navigating adversity.
Read more about her journey utilizing artmaking as SOUL RETRIEVAL.
original photograph, Bloomington, Indiana ©2019
"Firstly, you are whole. You are enough. You can know yourself as the authentic being you were meant to be - whole and experiencing wellbeing and worthiness no matter what your life circumstances are or have been.
What if life were a series of initiations? We can and do heal, grow, evolve, become, create and ascend - reach a higher understanding and consciousness, which allows for coming into our potentiality.
We are not only capable of transmuting our darkness into light ➤ love, it is our birthright to do so! We are all witnesses to this truth".
"We have all kinds of ways to keep pain at a distance. But that effort comes with
a cost of seeing the truth, seeing what's real and what's true.
If we are operating under delusion, we are not going to
be able to accomplish anything of value".
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
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Through integrative practices, including contemplative guided artmaking, you can re-member, and become the inclusive weaver of all the threads of your life.
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Sacred Mandala, Integration Art by Elizabeth Izzo ©2019 Soft chalk pastel and ink on paper
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"If you are ready to journey into a more expansive and creative life, I am honored to facilitate you growing into your potential. You are already your own leader, leading your life". Come journey into a more intentionally creative life embracing the mystery and become the Creator of your New Story. |
YOUR JOURNEY IS CALLING TO YOU
Each day is met with a series of decisions in which you are already engaging your creative powers. Your creativity can become a wellspring of information for you, providing meaning through intuitive processes, always able to assist you in life and on this mysterious and magical path, your unique life journey.
Elizabeth's hope for you to become at ONE with this WAY as one of your tools. Through her guidance, she hopes for you to develop a practice of embracing the totality of who you are and your experiences. The tools she provides can allow you to become informed and carry you into your own wisdom, knowingness and trust. To honor your path as an authentic being. It is within our nature to change and evolve as science is informing us - and ancient mysticism always has.
We are the architects of this process.
Everyone is born with a potential for becoming an artist. We simply begin there.
As an Integration Soul Coach, Elizabeth is available to assist you with a specific challenge or a more broad one within your evolving path-- yes, you are evolving, change is the only constant!
Unlike traditional life coaching, she guides you to turn towards a holistic approach, inclusive of your psychological and spiritual natures as they coexist within your unique unfolding and evolving story.
This work addresses moving beyond stuckness, stagnation, habitual patterning - anything that is a barrier for living your potential as a creative or within any other life arena.
She also works as an Intensive Guide. This work is based on a four week commitment journeying with her own unique offering, The Exquisite Mandala. Integration Life Coaching is built-in to the Intensive as well as cumulative personal guidance.
Exquisite Mandala as represented by 6 artists. Chalk Pastel ©2019
The Exquisite Mandala was birthed with 6 artist participants in a group she participated in for heart-centered women entrepreneurs in Portland, Oregon in April of 2017.
"Elizabeth led us through the creation of the mandala, which was really fun and fascinating! Such a great exercise to see how we all fit, despite difference. I loved it because I could feel my inner being guiding me and I felt free! It's interesting because I'm not normally drawn to creating art, but, when I do, I feel transformed. Thank you, Elizabeth!!!"
Heather Coale Schwartz, Portland
"Elizabeth led us through the creation of the mandala, which was really fun and fascinating! Such a great exercise to see how we all fit, despite difference. I loved it because I could feel my inner being guiding me and I felt free! It's interesting because I'm not normally drawn to creating art, but, when I do, I feel transformed. Thank you, Elizabeth!!!"
Heather Coale Schwartz, Portland
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