Soul Portraits

A Soul Portrait begins very simply.

Before a session, I ask that you not tell me anything about yourself—no background, circumstances, questions, or information about what may be happening in your life.

I ask only for your first name.

And then I listen.

I become still and focus on that name, waiting until I receive what I have come to call my “begin image”—the first image that lets me know it is time to put my fingertips to the paper.

Using my fingertips, I work with tissue paper over a prepared surface and allow the portrait to emerge. Faces may appear. Animals. Places. Objects. Symbols. Sometimes words. Sometimes things I don't understand at all.

I don't choose what appears, and I don't change something because it doesn't make sense to me.

Everything is offered exactly as it is received.

When the portrait is complete, we look at it together. I share what came through as the image was being created—the symbols, impressions, words, and message—and we allow the conversation to unfold.

Sometimes the connection is understood immediately.                Sometimes recognition comes later.

No two Soul Portraits have ever been exactly alike.                             Neither are the people who receive them.

There is something very different about watching a Soul Portrait come into being.

For roughly thirty minutes, I work quietly as the image develops beneath my fingertips. You may watch if you wish. You may simply sit with the experience. There is nothing you need to understand while it is happening.

When the drawing is complete, we turn our attention to it together.

I begin sharing what I received as I worked—the images, symbols, words, impressions, and message that accompanied the portrait.

And then something I have always loved about this work begins to happen:

the conversation becomes yours, too.

You may recognize something immediately. A face. A place.  A symbol whose meaning belongs particularly to you.

Other things may make no sense at all.

That is okay.

I have learned not to require an answer from everything that appears. Some things seem to belong to the moment. Others reveal their meaning days, months, or even years later.

A Soul Portrait is not about predicting your future or telling you who you are.

I don't believe that is mine to do.

Instead, I offer what I receive—and then we look at it together.

Not because I have been given your story.

But because you know your own.

Perhaps that is part of what makes each Soul Portrait so deeply individual.

It is an invitation to notice.

To recognize.

To remember.

And sometimes, to see something that has been quietly waiting to be seen.

There is no particular reason you need to have a Soul Portrait.

You do not need to be searching for an answer, standing at a crossroads, or trying to understand something in your life.

Sometimes people arrive with questions they keep entirely to themselves.

Sometimes they come during times of change.

Sometimes they are simply curious.

And sometimes there is no explanation beyond a quiet feeling that it is time.

Whatever brings you here is enough.