I went to five elementary schools, and though my environment constantly changed when I was a child,
one thing stayed consistent, and that was access to a piece of paper and a pencil.
No matter where I lived, no matter who was around me, I could always draw.
I think drawing was a way for me to see myself and to be with myself in a way that was safe and comforting and...
It was the one place, one thing that I could control in a life where I felt very powerless.
Being a child is a powerless experience, especially being the daughter of refugees,
where parents were doing their absolute best to survive in this country without knowing the language,
the culture, and also not having any real formal education.
Being an artist requires a deep connection to oneself, one's child self.
I think being an artist is...
opening doors to parts of yourself that people I think are really terrified of.
Their needs, their curiosities, their hungers.
And I recently found myself in a really intense place where I felt so opened up,
but also so emotionally, creatively charged, and I was ready to just dive in.
But I found that I wasn't really taking care of myself during my most heightened emotional places.
And so EFT has been a way of grounding myself and caring for myself
while I'm doing the work of creativity and expression.
Tapping started to bring me back to my physical experience.
Something to focus on that was outside my mind.
For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has worked with the body's energetic pathways.