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Conscious Thought Creative

Providing resources for those seeking healing, support & clarity

Conscious Thought Creative guides weary souls who feel lost, broken, or numb during difficult transitions in their lives to discover a fresh sense of alignment - reconnecting them to their intuition & inner creator while helping them to embrace their most truthful, unapologetic authenticity from a place of integrity & grounded expansiveness.

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How is your heart feeling lately?

"If your heart is bleeding, make the best of it - there is heat in freezing, be a testament."
- Tanya Davis

"Your greatest gift lies within your deepest wound."
- Philip McKernan

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How is your heart feeling lately?​

When was the last time anyone actually asked you about it?

Is it wishing for a chance to have a say, finally, after all this time?

Is it broken? Wounded? Or is it numb, and silent?​

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Or is there just something missing - a richness to your life that you can feel exists - somehow, somewhere. A meaning to what feels like an endless, pointless march to the end of an empty journey, without anything to really *actually live* for. A purpose for being here. A connection, or connections, that you know is a reality for some - it just never seems to happen for you, no matter how patient you are, or how hard you seek. 

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Maybe you miss the way it felt to be a child, caught up in your own imagination, marvelling at nature and humans and the world with awe and wonder. A vast curiosity, open to every and all possibilities; a never-ending fascination; a limitless interest; a spark.

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Maybe you miss the way it felt to be a teenager, busting out on your own, full of newly claimed independence; the right to decide how you live your one precious life; the audacity to presume it can happen - that it IS happening, for you. A courageous intensity accompanying all the experiences you drink deep into your soul. 

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Maybe you miss someone. "Grief is just love with no place to go," (from Jamie Anderson). Maybe it feels like a piece of you is missing, too... part of your heart that you gave to them. Fond memories turning bittersweet like autumn leaves changing in the trees. Mourning. Yearning. Counting minutes, hours, days, weeks, months. Sometimes counting years - cobwebs and dust settling on the loneliness. We accept the pain as the baseline for a life unlived.​

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We have a choice, though - even when it doesn't feel like we do. The lack of making a choice is still, in itself, a choice. Do you know that you are the creator of your own life? Do you know that external circumstances are often a mirror reflecting your inner landscape? Problems and challenges can shift into opportunities for growth. A large part of our pain is the choice to continue to suffer, whether that is an unconscious choice or perhaps it is a consciously known decision - we are, in fact, able to step back into our own power and reclaim our journeys. It IS possible.

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Have you ever felt joy that settled into your bones and brought so much light that you yourself felt like a crystal, shattering into beautiful rainbows? 

Have you felt a love so magnificent, so expansive, that it could only be for you, from you, swirling into eternity? The kind of love that describes what everyone has been told comes from another person, but can only exist inside of ourselves.

Well, have you? Have you been truly happy? 

 

I'm here to help warrior truth seekers who are sick of living by playing pretend in this world, and in their lives. Wounded honesty lovers that never give up, or give in; but I see you, and you're tired. You know there's an easier way, but you've been fighting against things so long that you can't see the path anymore. I'm here to help you find your way back to yourself. To find your way home, to you. The love of your life you truly need.

 

​This isn't about just wanting something MORE. It's about wanting what's aligned with your longing heart, your impassioned soul. It's about wanting what you know is waiting for you on the other side of this lesson, this test of your faith and your trust in the nonsensical sense a life makes when it's lived to its fullest potential. This is about knowing what CAN be, rather than just settling for what it is right now. 

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I know the journey so far has been long, and harrowing. It has blown up in your face just as you thought it was about to change for the better, finally, after all this time. It has shocked you, devastated you, discouraged you and left you wondering what's left.​​

 

On the other side of all this pain and struggle there IS something better waiting for you. It's not just some hokey thing people say - it's true. I know it because I had to live it, too.​​

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Unfortunately, in the age of influencers and social media exploding into our faces at every turn, we've lost the meaning behind a lot of really simple - but not easy - ideas that actually do help, if we use them to do the work we need to do. That we are called to do.​ Things like, "live your best life," "be your own hero," "you only live once," etc. have become cheesy, overused catch phrases some impossibly fit yoga instructor cheers at you through a screen while you attempt to pretzel yourself into the pose, and breathe, and wind up seething because it holds no weight anymore to inspire you to what it truly is meant to mean. 

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I say it's time to reclaim those things for our own. To define what we want to as important, without waiting for a trend to tell us what's new and hot this week before we decide. To reclaim our souls and live letting our hearts lead the way. To honour and cradle our inner child. To offer acceptance and kindness to our shadow selves. To integrate the abandoned shards of ourselves into wholeness. To feel a rainbow of emotions, let them move through us, and transmute. To become alchemists of our pain. To be human again. 

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There is beauty all around us, but we've become blind to seeing it for ourselves. It takes courage, truth, integrity, honour, humility, dedication and resilience. It takes radical honesty - not only to others, but to yourself. It takes a paradigm shift; an epiphany - a new perspective.​​​

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I can guide you on your way back to alignment. Through authenticity, gratitude, curiosity, vulnerability, and intentionality. With patience, clarity, self-acceptance, grit, grace and poise. To soverignty, freedom, wholeness, peace, meaningful work, success, and expansiveness. 

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My soul service work is to help "heal the broken heart of the world" (Miribai Starr at Wild Heart - Unraveling the Myths of Grief workshop series). We do this work together. We heal through connection. By embracing and reclaiming our humanity. With sincere & heartfelt compassion, empathy and unity. Like a soothing salve for a weeping wound, community can and does heal us. That's why the services I offer include exclusive member access to the Conscious Thought Community. I believe we can learn from one another. 

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The individual work we do ripples outwards - our work to heal ourselves also heals the collective. I offer 1:1 coaching programs to assist you with beginning, and to carry on throughout, the different stages of your heroic journey homeward. Your truest self is waiting. We don't need to go on a quest to find ourselves. We need to work to uncover the self that is at the center of us. We just lost sight of where to look because of what's been placed on us - what we have been told, or chosen, to carry. ​When it gets too heavy, a choice has to be made.​​

 

Something's gotta give! Deep down you know you are the hero of this story! 

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Creative Wellness Practitioner

Courtney Zehanoviz

Welcome

I am a holistic creative wellness practitioner specializing in personal responsibility through behavioural & expressive healing modalities.

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I facilitate empowerment for struggling & frustrated creatives so that you can embrace your shadow, establish self-acceptance, reignite your passion, achieve balance & evolve into alignment with your truest, highest self.

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Conscious Thought Creative offers online creative wellness coaching sessions, classes and downloadable materials for self help.

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I have been professionally certified in wellness coaching, creative expressive therapeutic practices, psychology, graphic design, editing, arts & business. I am a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting since I was a child. 

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My favourite self-care activities are petting cats, gardening, reading, learning, making artwork, refinishing and reupholstering furniture, fixing things, writing, spending time with animals and being in nature.​

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I am also available for contract editing & art projects including commissioned art pieces, chalk menus & hand painted signs for local restaurants & businesses. {Click the link above art services to be redirected to my portfolio website.}

 

If you want to stay a little while, check out my blog page to learn with me and get to know me a little bit better!

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THE KINTSUGI SOUL - Walking the Path of Sacred Creativity

If it feels as if circumstances have smashed you to pieces, you have two choices: you can remain broken; or you can mend yourself with gold. 

 

The ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, "golden repair," is the art of mending broken ceramics with lacquer and gold, leaving golden seams where the cracks once were. This painstaking process adds strength and value - and it reminds us that with patience and resiliency, what seems irreparable can be renewed, and the scars that once threatened to destroy us can lead us to a new kind of wholeness, leaving a uniquely complex beauty where once only our hardships and heartbreak existed.

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Applications are currently being accepted for the program.

 

Find out if it's right for you.​

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Conscious Thoughts

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Services

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Therapeutic Healing Modalities 

Holistic healing modalities as listed are integrated into a customized program tailored to your specific journey. Single (hourly) sessions are available  for intuitive spiritually focused readings, expressive therapy sessions, or online personal organization services. Click the read more button below to learn about what I offer.

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Personal Organization
Services

Have you heard of "body doubling"? I can help you streamline when you feel unable to do it yourself. I offer online organizational coaching services that respect your sentimental items, help you to address toxic clutter, and allow you to sort, let go, and tuck things away in place, feeling calmer and lighter moving forward. 

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Art Offerings
& Art Services

In my online store you'll find inspirational prints, cards, bookmarks and artwork for sale. If you want something special, contact me for commission information. On Vancouver Island BC, I hand letter anything - from chalkboard menus to painted signs; I also create business cards and custom menus for local businesses.

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Contact Me

Ask me anything!

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I answer any inquiries personally & confidentially. I read your correspondence daily & will respond as quickly as possible.

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