Expressive Arts Intuitive

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Expressive Arts Therapy

Wet Camel Wings by Diane Farnsworth
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Diane Farnsworth - Expressive Arts Therapist and Angel Healer
I am a lifelong artist and certified expressive arts therapist, (REAT), with a creative writing degree from University of British Columbia, as well as having a background in dance, acting, art, and film-making.  I’ve also had the privilege to train in dance therapy with both Ofir Gabay, (Langara College, Vancouver), and Daria Halprin, (Tamalpa Institute, California).  I did my practicum at Pacifica Recovery Centre, later working there as a drama therapist until the 2020 lockdown.  After graduating in 2014 from the REAT program, I began my private practice, combining tools such as EFT, sound work, archetypal work, as well as Pranic Healing with the usual expressive arts modalities such as art, dance, writing, and drama.

In 2011 after being ill for three years and being prodded by numerous specialists, a pranic healer informed me that I had kundalini syndrome.  She explained that it was a spiritual awakening that I was not yet prepared for, resulting in back pain, involuntary shaking, itching, headaches, and other intense sensitivities, which my rheumatologist had suggested was fibromyalgia…but I knew it was more than that.  My healer told me that my kundalini syndrome might have been triggered by an accident.  I’d had a dance accident in 2008.  I thought ‘Figures my klutziness triggered my spiritual awakening.’

I got healings from her for about 6 months as well as changing my diet, and bathing in salt water as she’ had suggested.  By the end of 2011, I was traveling again and had enrolled in a two-year Expressive Arts Therapy program.

Soon after graduating, I sought out my healer’s teacher, Jean Robillard and studied three levels of Pranic Healing with him so I could incorporate healings into my therapy sessions.

When working with my clients online, during the first year of the pandemic, I discovered that the energy between us was just as intense as it had been in person.  My teacher, Jean Robillard had taught long distance healing and I began to understand just how connected we all were.

In 2021 I discovered intuitive, author, teacher, speaker, and psychotherapist, Corin Grillo on George  Noory’s Beyond Belief on Gaia television.  From the moment Corin spoke, I knew I wanted to study with her, but I didn’t think it would be so soon.  When Corin’s 6-month angel healing program opened up in 2022, I was indecisive on whether or not to sign up or wait the following year…the registration period was on the brink of closing.

I sat in the backyard staring at the register button on my device for at least fifteen minutes.  And then the sign came.  I hadn’t expected such a blatant one, like a crow falling from the sky.

What I didn’t know in that moment, was that my dear friend, Michael was dying.  Minutes later, I received his sister, Karen’s message of his passing.  I told her a teenage crow had just fallen from the towering oak from the street onto a plastic bin on the side of the house, a miraculous feat.  After it fell, my neighbor  informed me that she had just finished teaching her online students what ‘omen’ meant, giving them examples of bird and other animal signs.

I sent Karen the photo I had just taken of the crow sitting in the nearby shrub, after his fall.  Karen immediately messaged me to hang on because she needed to tell me something.

She had asked Michael to send a cardinal after he passed.  He told her ‘No, I will send a crow.’

Michael had never been a procrastinator, having been born with a debilitating disease; he wasted no time, even after his passing.

That morning, I had asked my guides to send a sign for my decision to register.  I enrolled in the Angel Alchemy Academy shortly after my dear friend left his broken body.  Minutes later, the crow abruptly flew to his folks across the street, in the process banging into a parked van before arriving where his cawing parents awaited, much like Michael joining his folks on the other side.  The crow survived his calamities.

I am deeply grateful for my friendship with Michael and for his teen crow messenger, (we were teenagers together).  I am also deeply honored and appreciative of the magical Corin Grillo who taught with an open heart, reminding me of my own magic and purpose at this extremely important time on earth.  Her beautiful teachings of working with the angelic realm, is what I offer in both my healing and therapy work.  D ox