Art as Healing: Using Intuitive Painting to Process Trauma, Find Belonging, and Express Emotion

Art as Healing: Using Intuitive Painting to Process Trauma, Find Belonging, and Express Emotion

June 4, 2026 · 41 min · Season 9 · Episode 11

About this episode

This episode explores how intuitive painting can facilitate emotional healing and community connection.

What if you could paint your deepest emotions — without anyone judging whether the painting is beautiful, and without needing to analyze what it means? In this episode, I talk with Bahar Amanzadeh, an intuitive painting guide whose trauma-informed workshops create a safe, somatic space for emotional healing through art. Bahar explains how intuitive painting differs from art therapy, why healing happens in the body before it happens in the mind, and how community and creativity can help us fin...

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