She Tore Her Past Apart and Found Herself
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Devorah shares her journey of overcoming trauma and self-hatred through creativity and soul portraits.
What happens when you stop running from your past and start ripping it up literally? In a powerful conversation on LOA Today , host Walt and co-host Anne Marie sat down with artist and soul-portrait guide Devorah to explore how creativity can become a lifeline out of shame, trauma, and self-hatred. From the outside, Devorah “looked” successful. She went to art school, showed in galleries, and was known as a professional artist. Inside, she felt like she was “never enough.” As she told Walt, she had grown up deeply dyslexic, struggled in school, and carried a childhood certainty that she was simply “bad” and somehow “going to hell” despite not growing up in a religious household. That early inner verdict fueled years of painful choices that seemed to “prove” her own worthlessness. One of the most haunting moments she shared was sitting in freezing Prague, wearing summer clothes, contemplating simply leaning back and letting nature take her life. “Something in me said, ‘No. Get up,’” she recalled. That tiny inner “no” became a turning point. Walt asked what it was like the first time she truly looked under the hood of her own story. Devorah admitted she was terrified of what she’d…
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