The next free Calming Circles Couch Challenge is coming soon. Join the waitlist and you’ll hear the dates first. How it works
The Calming Circles Couch Challenge
Painting that’s just yours, about ten minutes a day, from the couch. Three free days. The kids, the doctors, and work don’t get this one.
The next free 3-day Couch Challenge is coming soon. Pop your name below and I’ll email you as soon as the dates are set, and again the morning it starts.
What happens over the three days
Three short sessions, about ten minutes each, made to listen to with the screen off (captions are there if you need them). You press play, put the phone face down, and make one circle with a pen or marker from wherever you’re lying. By day three you’ll have something you made in the body you have this week, and you’ll know what my Calming Circles Collage course feels like from the inside.
Circle with the breath
One breath, one circle. It counts. Why a circle settles your whole system, plus a couch setup with no water and nothing to decide.
Fill it without deciding
Don’t decide. Doodle. Meditative marks on yesterday’s circle, and how to get into flow when your hands or your energy won’t cooperate.
Make it a touchstone
This is where you usually stop. Your circle becomes a touchstone you keep by the bed, and you see what it grows into.
It runs three days in a row, and the dates are coming soon. On day three we make the touchstone together and I show you what your circles can grow into. Miss a day and it’s waiting for you the next morning. A pen and the back of an envelope count as supplies.
Join the waitlist for the next round
After 1,500 live workshops, calming circles are still what people ask me for most. The Couch Challenge is the gentlest way in, and a preview of Calming Circles Collage, my course where your circles turn into collage for your walls, your gifts, and you. Every session comes out of my arts in health and therapeutic art training, and each one is built so the calm shows up whether or not the painting does.
Hi, I’m Katie.
A few years ago, I was living outside Philadelphia with my husband and our pup, working in senior leadership at a marketing agency and heading toward the career I thought I was supposed to want. Then my health fell apart. Long COVID, POTS, Celiac, anemia, mold exposure, surgery, burnout, grief, one thing after another. I went from the woman who never dropped a ball at work to someone lying on the couch wondering who I’d become.
In the fall of 2022, alone at my kitchen table and looking for anything that might make life feel less over, I logged onto an online painting event. For the first time in months, I felt calm, curious, present, and not alone. That feeling cracked something open. I realized how many women are quietly grieving versions of themselves that nobody else even noticed they’d lost.
So I built the thing I needed: a studio that meets you in a fluctuating body, on a flare day, from the couch, and helps you find your way back to yourself one small painting at a time. I built it because I needed it, and some days I still do.
These days I’m a Global Arts in Medicine Fellow, trained in arts in health, and studying to become an art therapist. I still paint from the couch most days.
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