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GRIEF AND LIGHTHow Art Helps You Heal Grief (And Become Who You Truly Are) with Susie StonefieldWhat if the mess you've been avoiding is actually the doorway?In this episode, host Nina Rodriguez sits down with transformational creativity and grief coach Susie Stonefield to explore the powerful connection between grief and creative expression. Susie believes creativity isn't a luxury or a talent reserved for the few. It's a birthright. And in times of loss and healing, it can become one of our most powerful companions.Together, they explore how art-making without rules, outcomes, or expectations creates space for emotional healing and truth to surface. They m...
2026-02-2451 min
The Pause Culture PodcastS2, E7- Creative Courage: Embracing Midlife Through Art (Part 2)In this final part of our “Creative Courage” conversation, artist and creativity coach Susie Stonefield returns to explore how creativity can reconnect us to joy, play, and emotional freedom—especially in midlife.
We talk about what creative courage truly means, how to give yourself permission to have fun, and the importance of releasing control—on the canvas and in life.
Susie also shares how embracing creativity supports emotional, mental, and physical well-being, and offers simple art practices for women navigating change and transformation. Together, we explore “no rules” art and how to discover the kind of creative outlet that feels right for yo...
2025-10-2641 min
The Pause Culture PodcastS2, E6- Creative Courage: Embracing Midlife Through Art (Part 1)In this episode, I sit down with Susie Stonefield — transformational creativity coach, grief midwife, and expressive artist — to explore grief, loss, and the courage it takes to create in midlife. Together, we discover how art can hold our stories, illuminate our shadows, and become a path to transformation and self-discovery.
2025-10-2037 min
Art Supply Posse207: Dealing with Creative Blocks with Susie StonefieldSusie Stonefield returns to chat with Kim about what to do when your art is not “arting”. What do you do when it’s just not working? Susie and Kim give tips on a few things you can try that might help.
Here is the link to the freebie that Susie mentioned:
https://www.susiestonefield.com/podcast-gift1
https://www.susiestonefield.com/
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2025-09-0752 minArt Supply Posse204: Art Journaling with Susie StonefieldKim talks with Susie Stonefield about art journaling.
https://www.susiestonefield.com
2025-05-201h 05
Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast113. Processing Loss Through Art, Living Authentically & Healing Through Grief with Susie StonefieldSend a textToday we’re chatting with Susie Stonefield, a transformational creativity coach, grief midwife, expressive artist, and writer. Susie’s work is SO fantastic and beautiful, I can’t wait to share her and her story with you all.In this episode Susie shares her personal story of coming out later in life, the challenges of supporting a child through significant medical issues, and the ongoing journey of caring for her aging mother.You’ll learn more about art journaling as a therapeutic practice—a modality Susie uses, teaches, and swears by herself...
2025-04-241h 11
The Spiritual Artist PodcastMaking Art With Your Grief: Susie Stonefield In this heartfelt conversation, CJ Miller speaks with transformational creativity and grief coach Susie Stonefield, who believes that “the wound is where the Light enters”—a quote from Rumi that guides her entire practice. Susie helps clients hold their grief through the healing practice of art journaling, which she sees not just as a creative outlet but as a form of spiritual practice. Rather than striving for perfection or hanging something on a wall, her work invites people to make space for their wordless heart to speak—to witness their emotions without judgment and transform pain into beauty. Together...
2025-04-2052 min
Sol RisingS3E12 Giving Grief a Voice with Creative Expression with Susie StonefieldFor many of us, grief can be hard to access. The depth of our pain creates resistance to honoring what yearns to come forward. How do we enter these spaces feeling safe to give voice to grief in a way that effectively soothes the wound left in the wake of loss? Join Amanda and her guest Susie Stonefield, transformational creativity and grief coach, for a compelling conversation about using art to excavate feelings hidden deep within, with the intention of putting language to emotions you may not know are living inside of you. The second half of...
2025-02-1450 min
Not Your Mother's Menopause with Dr. Fiona LovelyEp. 149 - Art As Healer At Midlife with Creativity and Grief Coach Susie StonefieldDr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine. She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause. When Susie Stonefield emailed us and said "I make people cry with art supplies" we knew we had to follow up and ask questions! Susie is a Creativity and Grief Coach, and teaches us how to art journal; using art supplies to help us express the feelings we cannot necessarily put words to. Something she calls "the wordless heart". Susie gives us permission to kindn...
2024-12-171h 18
Salve for the Tattered HeartPainting yourself out of a corner with Susie Stonefield MillerSusie talks about how she became her authentic self…better late than never. 😊 She shares the struggles leading up to that discovery and the struggles that continue as she unfolds and becomes more herself. Struggles are a part our human experience and Susie tells how creativity helps her process it all. Susie Stonefield Miller is passionate about fingerpainting. According to Susie, an intuitive creativity coach, expressive arts guide, and artist, we just didn’t do enough of that as kids.
Susie’s also passionate about the healing power of creativity. She’s believes deeply in letting go of expectations, confronting your inner...
2021-07-0459 min
Spilling RubiesEpisode 28: A Conversation with Susie Stonefield MillerThis episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for July 14, 2015. In this episode, we sit down with Sonoma County, California artist, writer, mom, wife, teacher, spiritual music leader, hand holder, community builder, and inspired life guide, Susie Stonefield Miller!Songs played:Future People by Alabama Shakes (2015)Hurricane by Mindy Smith (2004)Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to stay connected on all the social media places!Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, 8Tracks,
2015-07-1258 minSpilling RubiesEpisode 28: A Conversation with Susie Stonefield MillerThis episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for July 14, 2015. In this episode, we sit down with Sonoma County, California artist, writer, mom, wife, teacher, spiritual music leader, hand holder, community builder, and inspired life guide, Susie Stonefield Miller!
Songs played:
- Future People by Alabama Shakes (2015)
- Hurricane by Mindy Smith (2004)
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2015-07-1158 min