Hello, beautiful world!

Self-Portrait on 10/14/2024

Welcome to my creative, lovely, delicious space of the inter-webs! I haven’t blogged since the days of Livejournal and Myspace, so a LOT has happened in the decade plus of sharing my art and inner-world online. If you want a recap/rabbit-hole, view my Instagram and Facebook photos, which is where I have shared bits and pieces of life since the days of us all hand-coding all our fantastic, “prehistoric” web endeavors since!

2025 is the year that I am taking ownership of the title “Thriving Artist” and make my creativity my livelihood. For far too long, I have tried to just get by in the Matrix world by adhering to a “normal job” (Massage Therapy and Energy Work for the past 10 years!) and the stars have aligned in a most potent way for me to finally stop this silly self-created suffering and start putting into motion the life that I have dreamed of forever. I have been in a deep, gooey cocoon-phase of resetting my energy and healing the past 6 months, and all signs point to “START DOING THE THINGS YOU HAVE DEEPLY DESIRED SINCE BEING A KID”, so here we are!

These dreams consist of inspiring and uplifting mankind through my artwork! I see myself showcasing in many galleries, selling originals and products, writing and publishing books, uploading inspiring videos, taking more photo portraits, creating really fantastical events, and just making the outer world more like how I’ve always wished for in my inner world. It has taken a whole lot of healing, faith, and courage, and I am just getting started!

Thanks for being on this journey with me as I continue to burn the bridges of any remaining “lacking mentality” and “starving artist” stories, and passionately pursuing my dreams as God intended! I have kept my creative world very small, contained, and hidden for far too long, so this year, we open, expand, share boldly, take big chances, and create a life that I truly love living. I feel it in my bones that it is possible. I wish to share all of that with you, the full spectrum journey of the highest-highs and even the lowest-lows. Because being a true creative, in my eyes, is having the ability to express ourselves, despite the state of the world around and within us, and making the human condition little bit more relatable and unifying than feeling alone on an island.

Beginning this THRIVING ARTIST path feels like having the FREEDOM and AUDACITY to share our creativity shamelessly and passionately so that others can enjoy, ponder, heal, and feel empowered to express their true selves more easily, too. We are all living during this time to uplift one another to our highest potentials, and it feels like some kind of Renaissance 2.0 where we can actually be the people we have always envisioned, together. So let’s start reaching for the stars!

With a big, heartwarming welcome, I am grateful for us crossing paths. Stay tuned for more, love.

Most passionately,

Emily Michele Berry