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Several of you have noticed a difference in me and asked what I did.

I've heard that I seem to have even more confidence, more ease lately.

I decided to prepare for a fantastic opportunity-

 to be on Art School Live that aired globally by going to a Mastermind 

event on Catalina, Island. 

If you haven't seen the episode,

Click to watch. 

Several of you keep asking for details... What happened to you? Exactly where did you go?

So here is the back story.

I had a feeling that I needed to go to a Retreat

that was held at the Wrigley

Mansion (think chewing gum) on top of the hill pictured below.

I had to pinch myself.

The 180 degree view was so breathtakingly beautiful. 

It felt surreal. 

(Interesting note: Wrigley sold a different product in the beginning.

I understand he put the gum in the package as a

bonus product and people really wanted the gum so he ran with it.)

When I received an email to be interviewed with a demo live

on a global you tube presentation, I needed to prepare myself.

This was a huge opportunity. The ART SCHOOL LIVE show with Eric Rhoads,

publisher of Plein Air and Fine Art Connoisseur art magazines is a big deal.

I didn't want to blow it by freezing up (my old modus operandi). Can anyone relate?

We all have a pattern that tries to stay in charge of our minds until we learn how to overcome it.

I figured going to Catalina would knock out of me any last hesitation around success.

I had a fear of success. .... Had.

Oh yes, I wanted to go and have fun too. 

Again, like a snake, it was time to shed some old skin and recreate myself.

This time into someone with extreme confidence. I felt I had except I wanted

to make sure.

I believe we all have that giant within and it comes out and

withdraws and comes out throughout our life. I also believe it is 

our purpose to allow it to shine fully. 

I've let my giant be heard.

I prefer to call her the inner goddess or the divinity within.

Yet, I've always kept her on a leash so I could still be in control.

Now. Last week. I let her free.

If you want to meet her, watch the video because those of you who knew me when younger,

when really young, you will not see the old me.

You will see the me that was hidden from view.

The giant within that is also within you.

We all have a lighter, more loving, more confident,

wiser and giving person within than we are in this moment.

.

So, I went to go to Catalina to be able to be with people who

would encourage my higher self to come out even further.

For years I have been working on me. I knew I was no longer the same person.

I wanted to do a great job for those artists watching, yearning for more information.

I wanted to make sure I didn’t self sabotage any longer.

My desire is to live up to my full potential no matter how terrifying that is.

I like to overcome my fears to help others.

I have been driven because when I was three years old I remember

looking out the window in my bedroom and thinking

"Here I am again, this time I have to get it right."

I wasn't referring to being in my bedroom. It was about being on this planet.

I knew I was here before. I remember snippets from other lifetimes.

I want others who feel that they are different or weird to realize they are not alone.

And that there is a hidden self that they don't know yet who is remarkable.

They just need to keep looking and be brave.

When I was a young artist my paintings would reveal things to me. I thought

this was what being an artist meant. I had a real connection to my muse. 

Through symbols and metaphors I had an understanding of things. Then in college

I saw that I was weird and I closed up.  Yet, within me was still this voice. 

In 1989 this oil 40" x 30" painting of the sleeping woman (me)

shows my journey in life only I didn't know it. I was painting intuitively

symbols and metaphors. It began to make sense years later.

Inside each person is a giant waiting to get out.

So I came home 

more of a risk taker and ready to be

on the Art School Live with Eric Rhoads.

I practiced what to say, how to get in as much value to those watching as possible

and make the most of this time. It was extremely well received with many artists, 

asking to receive my newsletter and join me in workshops 

both online and in person.

I allowed the giant within to be present in the moment.

There was no fear.

I hope some of you will one day take a class with me to

discover more of what is inside of you artistically.

Everyone is an artist. Our life is the blank canvas.

Unleash your Colors!  is my new motto that came from the Catalina event.

My mission is to assist everyone who is ready to work with me to discover

their true colors and let them be free, to shine.  

A new version of the 

Color Sense Course is available once or twice each year.

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Creatively yours,

Linda