Shortly after, he returned to his hometown of Richmond, Virginia, where he continued life, but forced to look through a new lens. He spent up to four months at the Shepherd Center, a spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation center in Atlanta, where he worked with therapists to help him adjust to his wheelchair. The weeks following the accident were tough for Smith. "Luckily, my friends dragged me out onto the beach and waited for the paramedics to get there."Īt 23 years old, Smith said he realized he would be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. "It took me a little bit to realize that I couldn't move at all and then once I came to, I thought I was going to drown there." "I was floating there face down and couldn't move anything, but my eyes were open," Smith said. He was instantly paralyzed from the chest down. In August of 2014, Smith was visiting some friends in Virginia Beach when he dove into a wave head first, slamming into a sandbar. But just like the last few years of his life, he knew it wouldn't be easy. Ideally paired with a subscription to Lightsmith’s online course in Creative Alchemy, this book is the perfect companion for people seeking to transform their lives through creativity.After he was given the green light, Smith got to work. In other words, Creative Alchemy not only gives you the power to heal yourself but to truly and deeply appreciate the person you have become to allow this healing to happen.Ĭreative Alchemy, written by the highly talented artist, writer and theatre & film-maker Stephanie Lightsmith - explores the healing modality developed by Lightsmith: using creative expression for transformational healing, as well as developing powers of manifestation - for the purpose of creating your empowered, positive life and honing in on the magical skills that are inherently yours.įilled with interesting parallels between ancient teachings and modern science, Creative Alchemy is a rigorously researched and well explained text, which also serves as a practical handbook to using this modality and harnessing the tools, which Lightsmith has used to great effect with large numbers of people over the world, including schoolchildren, business moguls and people suffering with depression and anxiety. Like real magic, the work of Creative Alchemy unearths the root issues contributing to one’s dis-ease in such a way that the practitioner is their own therapist and, rather than transference, has the end result of falling in love with themselves in the most positive way possible. These traumas become a subconscious warden to the remainder of our lives, imprisoning us within our self-limiting beliefs and creating negative behavioral patterns that seem to force our lives down an unchosen path. The power within Creative Alchemy is to skip past the conscious, rational mind of thoughts and self-imposed narratives to dive deeply and directly to the traumas one incurs during the earliest stages of life, when the feeling of what is happening greatly outweighs one’s ability to describe it. By creating art directly out of pain, the creative alchemist is able to bypass the limiting structures of language and culture that inhibit most traditional talk therapies (Clinical Analysis, CBT, etc.) from getting anywhere near the root problem. I believe Creative Alchemy as a therapy has the potential to permanently relieve the disabling way we have held harmful beliefs about ourselves, and I believe Creative Alchemy as a therapy has the potential to permanently relieve the experiences. Creative Alchemy is the opposite of dogma, it tailors itself completely to the unique needs of each individual. She has access to the music and can help us find the waves of our own flow.
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