How to Embrace Holistic Healing through Art Therapy & Feng Shui

The Amanda Sophia Podcast

In this episode, we discuss How to Embrace Holistic Healing through Art Therapy and Feng Shui as Jacqueline shares each stepping stone of her practice and how it continues to evolve.

Jacqueline went through a journey of stepping stones, each with unique and individual sets of wisdom that she now combines beautifully into her overall practice. She started with art education, eventually adding Yoga, Reiki, Art Therapy, and Feng Shui as a wholesome blend of holistic healing practices. She shares how Art Therapy led her into deeper practices and understanding of how interconnected intergenerational trauma can be in one’s environment and habits. Jacqueline speaks on her findings of people she’s served, from children to veterans who all benefit from the therapeutic practices she’s combined. Through her work, she discovered that she could only do so much from a therapist’s perspective and often this would send her clients back home to an unsupportive or imbalanced environment. This is where Feng Shui came in, Jacqueline started studying Feng Shui through Amanda’s International Feng Shui School and discovered that she was able to help her clients set up their homes for personal success too! This combined with Art Therapy allowed her to guide her clients to explore their creativity more, which allowed them to be more in tune with the colors, artwork, and flow of the home itself. The interconnection of Art Therapy and Feng Shui mainly took the form of repatterning old programs of environment, where she found her clients all had habits, perhaps formed from childhood and others formed through adulthood that often created a negative cycle. Now, she can provide them with repatterning tools like decluttering, healing from within, Art Therapy practices, or taking time to meditate or reflect through art that then guides them to breaking negative cycles. A beautiful part of this episode for me was as we started diving deeper into generational trauma, Jacqueline expressed how much wisdom is buried deep within our roots. As we start unpacking trauma and releasing what does not serve us, we also keep emotional reminders and keepsakes within our consciousness as pearls of wisdom. Sometimes it’s on what you’d rather want to break the cycle of, other times it’s areas in which you’d want to improve for the next generation. Through her Art Therapy and holistic healing modalities, she’s found ways to restore, rebuild and release with her clients, and teach them grounding techniques for their continued healing. Toward the end of the episode, Jacqueline shares her tips on how to use Yoga, meditation, Art Therapy, Feng Shui, reflection, and everyday rituals to create an environment supportive of holistic healing. If you’re on the path of holistic healing, or you have an interest in Art Therapy or Feng Shui, then this is the podcast for you. Like me, so many of my students, including Jacqueline, started out learning from various cultures and modalities like Yoga, Reiki, Pilates, and Meditation and started incorporating Feng Shui and other holistic healing practices into their tool kit. When you’re on the path of a holistic healer then you’ll find that one modality always fits into another. That is why when I speak of Feng Shui, I always say that it pairs and interconnects with all the other holistic healing functions. Are you ready to expand on your holistic healing journey or upgrade your services? Join Jacqueline and many other students on their path as holistic healers and register for my FREE Feng Shui mini-course or my Feng Shui Master Certification Course, where you will learn a holistic blend of Feng Shui to incorporate with your existing or future services.

Jacqueline Jones owns and operates Flourish Momentum, integrative health and wellness for mind, body, soul, and space. She draws on her professional experience in education, art therapy, yoga, meditation, integrative nutrition health coaching, energy healing, and feng shui to offer a proprietary blend of services to holistically support clients to optimize all-around wellness.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art, Master of Education, and Master of Arts in Art Therapy. She is a Board Certified Art Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher, Certified Energy Medicine Yoga Teacher, Certified Zentangle Teacher, and Master Level Reiki Practitioner and Feng Shui Consultant. She taught art in Fairfax County Public Schools before becoming an art therapist. Since 2011 she has been providing clinical art therapy, first to pediatric oncology and hematology patients at Georgetown University Hospital, then, since 2012, to active duty service members in rehabilitative treatment for invisible wounds of war such as traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, and chronic pain at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Intrepid Spirit One at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, and at The Invisible Wounds Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Since 2018 she has been providing yoga and iRest yoga nidra therapeutically as well.

In 2021 she launched her private practice, Flourish Momentum, to work with clients using a full spectrum holistic approach that addresses mind, body, soul, and space to achieve and maintain desired wellness goals.

She works therapeutically with clients one-on-one as well as provides therapeutic groups and wellness events to non-profit and for-profit organizations in a variety of contexts to support needs of staff or clientele.

She has researched, published, and presented nationally and internationally on program development and evaluation of clinical art therapy to treat TBI and PTSD in military populations as well as utilizing art therapy to treat complicated and disenfranchised grief among military service members.

Website: www.flourishmomentum.com

Instagram: @flourish_momentum

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