What it means to H.E.A.L.

Artis Mooney, graphite & watercolor; late in pregnancy with 3rd child, processing feeling unsupported - 2011

I have been into all of the arts for as long as I can remember. My parents sure did peg me well when they finally chose a name for me, when I was somewhere between 6 weeks & 3 months old… (Why it took so long is for another story, but I left the hospital as Baby Mooney.)

I was born in Washington, DC on a Thursday evening, and until I was four, raised literally above and in a legendary DC jazz bar called One Step Down, which is where my parents met.

My first name, Artis, means 'of art' in Latin.

My middle name, Marie, means, among other things, 'rebellion' (and 'star of the sea’; water represents emotions, and the sea represents calmness, peace, spirituality and emotional balance, so - you could say, a shining light in this area).

And my given last name, Mooney, essentially means 'wealth' in Gaelic.

Wealth of Artistic Rebellion in Guiding Emotional and Spiritual Balance.

They nailed it.  

I was raised by a single father who was a big arts aficionado and always supported my interests with enthusiasm. Even though we were scraping by, he would always figure out ways to help me make things happen. Dance classes, piano and voice lessons, special workshops, play practice, camps, residencies, and even travel. He also was a bar fly who led an unconventional life, rooted for the underdog, and kept the company of some real 'interesting' characters, which exposed me to many things at a young age, good, and not so good.

In retrospect, my immersion in the arts was my saving grace, my way to escape from or cope with the primary and secondary traumas I experienced and witnessed for as long as I can remember.

The arts were my first meditation,

a way to make sense of chaos,

gain a broader perspective,

tune the world out and tune in to myself,

express myself, move energy, document my life in code.

The arts were my intuitive way to regulate my nervous system.

My way to Recalibrate.

And they have always been, and still are, inherent in everything I do.

I realized recently, when I was thinking about my winding path from childhood to this present moment - that every transformation, every recalibration I’ve ever experienced or witnessed in the face of a challenge, big or small (mine included), comes down to four things:

Honor, Express, Allow, Love.

(Yes, it happens to make a cute acronym, but it’s true.)

✨ Honor your experience;

✨ Express how you feel;

✨ Allow yourself to hope and dream; and

✨ Love yourself, unconditionally, through it all.

It’s always the underlying motivation!

It’s been an interesting discovery.

September 2026 will mark my 10th anniversary of wellness leadership with The Boundless Life.

As I’ve been moving through some reflecting, rebranding, and distillation

of the eclectic healing arts approach I’ve developed over the past 9+ years

(after being in Arts & Arts Education for the previous 20+ years) -

I zoomed out, and looked from the macro, then zoomed in, down to the micro…

Looking from the macro, the expanded view of the ‘What’ my practice looks like -

the modalities, the Coaching, the Reiki, the soundbaths, guided meditation,

moon circles, arts + wellness workshops, somatic work, deep trauma healing, etc. -

and then into the micro…

I asked myself how could I distill down the essence of all that I do

in the most succinct way,

how could I explain the foundation & gist of the work I do

with people who might be unfamiliar with the modalities?

What is at the heart of it all?

And this came to me - those four elements,

those four pillars of my peace in insane times.

Honor, Express, Allow, Love. My guiding force.

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without letting them get stuck inside you;

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