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Mamahood After Trauma | Trauma Informed Parenting, Emotional Regulation for MomsExploring Trauma Awareness and Healing Through Creativity in MotherhoodIn this episode of Mamahood After Trauma, host Emily Cleghorn welcomes Devorah Brinkerhoff, who shares her powerful journey of trauma healing—sparked by pregnancy and her children's own experiences.
Devorah opens up about the jealousy of giving her children a better childhood than her own, and the grace required to move through that grief. She explores how art became her most profound healing tool, allowing her body to express what words couldn't reach.
Together, Emily and Devorah inspire listeners to embrace resistance as a sign of inner strength and to discover healing through creativity.
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2026-04-2325 min
Spiritual Friction: Heartfelt Conversations about Personal Healing and TransformationHow to Trust Your Inner Wisdom and Transform Trauma Into Creative Healing — with Devorah BrinckerhoffIf you’re longing for a safe place to land, you’re warmly invited to join us on Zoom on the first and third Tuesdays at 6:00 PM PST—a space to slow down, connect, and be held in community. Zoom link available on the SoulBody Wellness website or by contacting Laurel LeMohn.Guest Devorah Brinckerhoff — Mixed Media Artist, Founder of Soul Portraits, Transformational GuideEpisode SummarySome conversations are meant to be held close—ones that invite you into possibility, wonder, and a deeper connection to yourself. This conversation with Devorah Brinckerho...
2026-04-211h 01
The Thought Atlas PodcastWhy You Can’t Think Your Way Through Everything | Devorah Hake BrinckerhoffDESCRIPTION:There are things we carry…Memories that feel fragmented.Experiences that don’t quite make sense.Parts of ourselves shaped before we understood them.And often, we try to think our way through it.We analyze.We explain.We try to figure it out.But what if some parts of us aren’t meant to be solved through thinking?In this episode of Though...
2026-04-1738 min
The Empowered Grief JourneyTurning Grief Into Art: Healing Trauma Through Creativity with Devorah BrinckerhoffIn this episode, Chris sits down with Devorah Brinckerhoff, a mixed media artist and creator of the Soul Portrait Process, to explore how creativity can help transform grief, trauma, and life challenges into empowerment.
Together, they discuss healing through art, reconnecting with your authentic self, and how expression can become a powerful tool for growth after loss.
2026-04-1247 min
Radiant Resilience - Real Conversations with Tawny Palm100. Devorah Brinkerhoff - The Art of Becoming After TraumaSend us Fan MailTrigger Warning Topics:Sexual abuse (childhood and generational)Child abuseTrauma and PTSDFamily estrangementEmotional and psychological distressLegal conflict / custody-related stressMental health struggles (anxiety, depression)Suicidal ideation (brief mention)In this deeply raw and powerful episode of Radiant Resilience, Tawny sits down with Devorah Brinkerhoff to explore a story that is both heartbreaking and profoundly transformative.Devorah shares her journey of uncovering repressed childhood sexual abuse, navigating the devastating realization that her own children were being harmed, and the unimaginable fallout that followed—including family betrayal, legal battles, and co...
2026-03-3058 min
Assorted ConversationsEp. 52 - The Soul Portraits for Healing Conversation with Devorah BrinckerhoffText me what you think of today’s episode!Some healing happens by talking, and some healing happens when your hands finally tell the truth your mouth can’t. We sit down with artist Devorah Brinkerhoff, creator of Soul Portraits, a mixed media process that helps people turn trauma, grief, and life transitions into art that feels like relief in the body and clarity in the mind. If you’ve ever thought, “I’m not creative,” or you’ve treated creativity like a luxury instead of a tool for survival, this conversation flips that belief on its head.
2026-03-2550 min
Be Still and Live#24: Create More, Consume Less: Reclaim Creativity Through Stillness and Boredom with Devorah BrinckerhoffYour days can be packed and still feel oddly empty. That’s the paradox we sit with today: we live in a world that constantly asks us to consume, but rarely invites us to create. When we lose our connection to creativity, we don’t just drop a hobby, we lose access to a part of ourselves that knows how to heal, adapt, and feel alive.I’m joined by Devorah Brinckerhoff, a mixed media artist and transformational guide behind Soul Portraits, a healing methodology that uses art as a pathway back to authenticity. Together we talk about...
2026-03-171h 04
Sacred MagicEpisode 178: Devorah BrinckerhoffDevorah Brinckerhoff is a mixed media artist and transformational guide who has spent over 30 years using creativity as a pathway to inner wisdom. Originally from Vermont and now living in Oregon with her husband and youngest daughter, her life took an unexpected turn 16 years ago when protecting her children from sexual abuse led to complete estrangement from both families overnight.
RISD-trained and formerly gallery-represented, what felt like destruction became the catalyst for her most meaningful work. While helping her family heal and processing her own childhood trauma, she began incorporating personal materials - old letters, photos, journals...
2026-02-2734 min
Version 1Turning Your Life Experiences Into Art With Soul Portraits Creator Devorah BrinkerhoffDevorah Brinckerhoff is a mixed media artist and transformational guide with over 30 years of experience who developed Soul Portraits - an innovative healing methodology that uses creativity to transform trauma into empowerment. RISD-trained and formerly gallery-represented, her life took an unexpected turn when protecting her children from sexual abuse led to complete family estrangement overnight. This crisis became the catalyst for discovering that creativity could fundamentally shift how we relate to our most difficult experiences. Her Soul Portrait process involves physically working with actual personal materials - old letters, photos, documents - allowing people to access embodied wisdom their...
2026-02-2459 min
10 tracks Podcast33 Devorah Hake BrinkerhoffWelcome to 10 tracks, my guest today is DEVORAH HAKE BRINCKERHOFF.
Devorah is a professional artist with more than 30 years of experience, whose work has appeared in galleries across the U.S. and in private collections around the world. From her studio in Oregon, she creates Soul Portraits—a unique mixed-media practice that turns personal items like letters and photos into powerful tools for healing and self-discovery. Through her workshops and coaching, she helps people tap into their creativity, release old stories, and reconnect with who they really are.
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2026-02-161h 54
Soul-led Creative Women with Sam HortonThe Power of Witnessing Your Story: Art, Healing & Soul Portraits | Devorah BrinckerhoffSend us Fan MailFOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep101What if healing didn’t require fixing, analysing, or reliving your pain, but simply witnessing your story with compassion?In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by professional artist and creative healer Devorah Brinckerhoff, whose life journey led her to create the Soul Portrait process, a deeply intuitive form of healing through art and creativity that supports emotional release, trauma healing, and soul connection. Together, we explore how soulful creativity allows us to w...
2026-02-0135 minSoul-led Creative Women with Sam HortonThe Power of Witnessing Your Story: Art, Healing & Soul Portraits | Devorah BrinckerhoffSend us Fan MailFOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep101What if healing didn’t require fixing, analysing, or reliving your pain, but simply witnessing your story with compassion?In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by professional artist and creative healer Devorah Brinckerhoff, whose life journey led her to create the Soul Portrait process, a deeply intuitive form of healing through art and creativity that supports emotional release, trauma healing, and soul connection. Together, we explore how soulful creativity allows us to w...
2026-02-0135 min
THE MAKING OF MEHow Creativity and Art Help Heal Trauma: The Soul Portrait ApproachWhat if healing from trauma didn’t rely on words—but on creativity?In this episode of The Making of Me, artist Devorah Brinckerhoff shares her deeply personal journey of healing personal and family trauma through Soul Portrait—a powerful, intuitive approach that uses art as a pathway to transformation and self-discovery.Devorah explains how creativity can offer freedom from painful narratives, why traditional talk therapy doesn’t work for everyone, and how art allows emotions to move and resolve without needing to be verbalized. This conversation explores childhood creativi...
2026-01-3122 min
Hope for Humanity — Conversations on Healing, Trauma & Psychedelic Integration#12 The “BS Meter,” Performance, and the Return of the Real Self with Devorah BrinckerhoffA deep conversation on performance as protection, authenticity vs attachment, and using art to integrate grief and trauma.Devorah Brinckerhoff is an artist who uses creative processes to express emotions, process trauma, and recover authenticity. Find Devorah at:Instagram: @devorahbrinckerhoffFacebook: Devorah Hake Brinckerhoff & Soul PortraitsTikTok: @soulportrait.artLinkedin: Devorah Hake Brinckerhoff https://soulportrait.art/workshop/https://soulportrait.art/innervoice/ https://soulportrait.art/If you'd like to learn more about our approach, or to...
2025-12-311h 09
WellishHeal your story through expression, not intellectualization with Devorah BrinckerhoffReal healing isn’t pretty. It isn’t a 5 a.m. routine, a perfectly lit yoga flow, or a tidy before-and-after. It’s messy, textured, human — and sometimes it starts with ripping up old love letters.In this episode, I sit down with mixed media artist and Soul Portrait creator Devorah Brinckerhoff, whose 30+ years as an artist and very real journey through childhood trauma, family estrangement, and her children’s abuse led her to a completely different way of healing. Instead of talking about your story, Devorah guides people to literally work with it — using old letters, photos, jour...
2025-11-241h 19
Emotionally UnavailableArt as Self-Discovery: Reclaiming the Story WithinIn this conversation, therapist and host, Malisa Hepner, sits down with artist and storyteller, Devorah Brinckerhoff, to explore how art becomes a portal for self-reclamation. Devorah shares the intimate process of taking apart her personal narrative—piece by piece—and reassembling it with intention. Together, they examine how identity is shaped, how external validation subtly rewrites our sense of self, and how creative expression can guide us back to the truth we've always carried. This episode offers a tender reminder that healing isn't about becoming someone new, but remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.
2025-11-2457 min
The Reclamation Room: Coaching, Boundaries, and Healing After Narcissistic AbuseCanvas of the Soul: Self-Discovery and Healing Through ArtIn this episode of The Reclamation Room, raw authenticity reigns as we meet a guest who is open-hearted and unafraid to confront her past. Ashana and guest Devorah Brinckerhoff candidly explore the profound impact of unresolved trauma, discuss the nuance and complexities of navigating relationships after betrayal, the journey of self-discovery along the way, and the power of art as a therapeutic outlet. About DevorahA professional artist based in Oregon, Devorah developed a unique healing methodology known as Soul Portraits. This innovative approach combines artistic expression with deep spiritual and emotional work to help peo...
2025-11-201h 08
The Reclamation Room: Coaching, Boundaries, and Healing After Narcissistic AbuseCanvas of the Soul: Self-Discovery and Healing Through ArtIn this episode of The Reclamation Room, raw authenticity reigns as we meet a guest who is open-hearted and unafraid to confront her past. Ashana and guest Devorah Brinckerhoff candidly explore the profound impact of unresolved trauma, discuss the nuance and complexities of navigating relationships after betrayal, the journey of self-discovery along the way, and the power of art as a therapeutic outlet. About DevorahA professional artist based in Oregon, Devorah developed a unique healing methodology known as Soul Portraits. This innovative approach combines artistic expression with deep spiritual and emotional work to help peo...
2025-11-201h 08
Famous Interviews with Joe DiminoProfessional Artist & Creator of Soul Portraits Devorah BrinckerhoffWelcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. In this episode, we talk with Professional Artist & Creator of Soul Portraits, Devorah Brinckerhoff. With over 30 years of experience, Devorah’s work has been featured in galleries across the U.S. and is part of private collections around the world.Through her own healing journey, she developed Soul Portraits — a powerful mixed-media creative healing practice that transforms personal materials like letters, photos, and journal pages into deeply meaningful works of art. From her Oregon studio, she creates commissioned Soul Portraits and teaches others through workshops a...
2025-10-2931 min
Om WOWTransforming Trauma Into Empowerment & Healing Through Creativity with Devorah BrinckerhoffDevorah Brinkerhoff shares how her innovative Soul Portraits methodology combines art therapy, creative expression, and somatic healing to help people transform trauma into empowerment. Discover how working with your hands can release stuck emotions and reconnect you with your authentic self.In this episode you'll learn:🎨 How mixed media art and creative expression can bypass your thinking mind and access somatic (body-based) healing💭 Why talking about your problems isn't enough—and how your body holds the answers that traditional talk therapy alone can't reach📝 The transformational 3-step Soul Portraits process: honoring your past...
2025-10-2140 min
Sacred HarmonyHealing Through Creation: Using Art to Process Trauma, Integrate Shadow, and Reclaim the Self with Devorah Brinckerhoff
On Sacred Harmony, we explore how creativity becomes a practical path for trauma processing and identity repair. Artist Devorah Brinckerhoff (RISD-trained; creator of Soul Portraits) shares how painting, collage, and mixed media help people move from overwhelm to integration—honoring painful histories without bypassing them. We discuss using personal artifacts (letters, photos, legal notices) inside artwork to “disassemble and reassemble” identity, why integration precedes transformation, and how everyday creativity (gardening, cooking, music, journaling) builds resilience. This conversation is direct, grounded, and designed for listeners searching for clear, humane tools—on and off the canvas.
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2025-10-1822 min
Phantom Electric GhostThe Soul Knows: Thinking Can’t Do What Art Can w/ Devorah Hake BrinckerhoffThe Soul Knows: Thinking Can’t Do What Art Can w/ Devorah Hake BrinckerhoffProfessional Artist and creator of Soul Portraits, a unique process that guides people through healing the past, identity shifts, and spiritual growth using intuitive creativityDevorah Hake Brinckerhoff is a professional artist of over 30 years whose work has been shown in galleries across the United States and is held in private collections across the world. As a way to process her own trauma, she created Soul Portraits—a mixed-media creative healing practice that uses personal materials like letters, phot...
2025-10-091h 01
Perfect Life AwakeningCreativity is a Superpower with Devorah BrinckerhoffAir Date - 24 September 2025Devorah Brinckerhoff is a mixed-media artist and transformational guide who has spent over 30 years using creativity as a direct pathway to self-discovery, awakening intuition, and inner wisdom. Her art career took a dramatic turn when faced with a family crisis involving sexual abuse of her young children. What she thought would destroy her became the catalyst for her most meaningful work, as well as how she related to her own childhood traumas. This led to what she calls “Soul Portraits,” a process designed to help people shed false identities and limiting beliefs that keep them...
2025-09-2555 min