The Dark Mother Art Studio
You’ve spent your whole life making sense.
Come make something else.
Every Wednesday, 10-11am. $25. Use code FREE for your first class.
I don't remember much of the first year of my daughter’s life. I was suddenly a mother of two - one infant, one toddler.
I remember that I was alone all day, most days. I would wake up to the sound of my husband going for a run at 4am and lay in panic and dread until I had to get up so he could leave at 6. I was in freeze most of the day—except for the moments when I would explode with rage at my toddler, because I didn’t have structure, support, or a single moment to feel what I was feeling.
I thought about harming myself.
I begged silently for someone to help me.
And I smiled. I performed okay-ness, because I knew I’d get more help (even if it was crap) by fawning than by yelling.
And I know I’m not the only one who has experienced this.
We live in a culture that demands an explanation before it offers care.
Prove it. Earn it. Be palatable. Make it easy for me to support you.
So we start trying to explain ourselves better. Tell the story better. Cite scientific sources to substantiate our needs.
But the truth is: Belonging has nothing to do with approval.
And The Dark Mother Art Studio is about actualizing that fact.
This offering is for YOU, so that you don’t have to:
Keep playing the “fine” game
Figure out how to take care of yourself so that others can stay comfortable
Keep the intrusive thoughts at bay
Justify your desire for SPACE to BREATHE
This is a radical reframe.
It is a creative reclamation.
It is a spiritual reckoning with everything we’ve been taught to suppress.
When we lean into imagination, and let it guide us through art, we reclaim:
Completion (instead of endless dread)
Possibility (instead of shame spirals)
Truth (instead of silence)
We will sing.
We will speak.
We might howl.
We will not apologize.
This is not therapy, or a performance.
This is expression that becomes a survival ritual, a revolt.
This is what happens when a mother tells the truth and makes something from it.
You don’t need a reason to want what you want.
Make art instead of making sense.