"I love inspiration. I love this beautiful unfolding of thought and word and image."
Do you love quotes? How about little nuggets of inspiration? What about deeply personal stories written with raw, honest, gut-wrenching vulnerability? Me too! I've written from the heart for as long as I can remember. From messages in cards to loved ones, to poetry, to quotes, blogs and more, writing has been a means to express the personal struggles, lessons, and triumphs that have filled my days. I understand myself better through writing, photography, and art and hope to bring this kind of healing to others as well. If, like me, words and art lift you up, teach you, inspire you, and help you transform, then I invite you to join me through my Facebook and Instagram pages, as I share quotes, random musings, stories, and art in the hopes of touching just one person's life for the better.
A Little (or a Lot) About Me
I've come to a point in my life where I know myself better than I ever have before and yet I'm at more of a loss for words about how to describe myself. Oxymoronic right? Especially for a writer.
My journey to this point has taken me from a young, empathic sensitive girl who loved to write poetry and who loved to paint on the easel my Dad lovingly crafted for me, to a woman, still highly sensitive and still trying to express myself through the heart of that little girl. I guess not much has changed.
It was always both: writing and art. Being convinced that there was no financial path to writing in Grade 8, I focused my studies instead on art and attended college to become a graphic artist. After a scant three years working at a local print shop, my wrists gave out to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and that career ended.
Yet throughout my teenage years and beyond, I loved to write. The poetry I wrote expressed my heart in a way that nothing else could. Even my spoken words couldn't. Yet, putting words on a page was a direct, unfiltered way to express my deepest fears, my truest thoughts in a form without judgment or repercussion. Poetry turned into journaling, and journaling turned into cathartic writing.
And still art beckoned me. Beauty beckoned me. Trying to capture the magic and mystery of everyday life become a challenge for my camera. An exquisite light and enchantment happened after I started my spiritual journey and energy healing influenced my art like nothing else. Being able to perceive subtle energetic shifts guided me to photograph sacred sites and sites that held sacredness...two completely different things. I learned that the smallest, simplest space or item could hold vast amounts of unexplained energy and beauty.
And so, as I journeyed forth, this dance of writing and art filled me with a means of expression that nurtured me in my darkest days and inspired me in the lightest. The dance of being so sensitive exposed me to emotions that were simply too hard to bear at times. Anxiety, depression and chronic pain danced with me for the past twenty years and have been my master teachers in crafting me into the version of Tracy that you witness today.
If you want to get to know me, follow my writing. I'm fully exposed. I write with unabashed vulnerability and abandon. I'm an open book, ready to spill my secrets in the desire to inspire or help someone else relate and heal.
If you want to get to know me, follow my art. See through my eyes. Wonder with me, heal with me through the beauty and sacredness of nature. Walk along with me as I try and capture the gifts that surround us and bring to light their message of hope and light.
It is my greatest honour to connect with you, dear friend.
My journey to this point has taken me from a young, empathic sensitive girl who loved to write poetry and who loved to paint on the easel my Dad lovingly crafted for me, to a woman, still highly sensitive and still trying to express myself through the heart of that little girl. I guess not much has changed.
It was always both: writing and art. Being convinced that there was no financial path to writing in Grade 8, I focused my studies instead on art and attended college to become a graphic artist. After a scant three years working at a local print shop, my wrists gave out to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and that career ended.
Yet throughout my teenage years and beyond, I loved to write. The poetry I wrote expressed my heart in a way that nothing else could. Even my spoken words couldn't. Yet, putting words on a page was a direct, unfiltered way to express my deepest fears, my truest thoughts in a form without judgment or repercussion. Poetry turned into journaling, and journaling turned into cathartic writing.
And still art beckoned me. Beauty beckoned me. Trying to capture the magic and mystery of everyday life become a challenge for my camera. An exquisite light and enchantment happened after I started my spiritual journey and energy healing influenced my art like nothing else. Being able to perceive subtle energetic shifts guided me to photograph sacred sites and sites that held sacredness...two completely different things. I learned that the smallest, simplest space or item could hold vast amounts of unexplained energy and beauty.
And so, as I journeyed forth, this dance of writing and art filled me with a means of expression that nurtured me in my darkest days and inspired me in the lightest. The dance of being so sensitive exposed me to emotions that were simply too hard to bear at times. Anxiety, depression and chronic pain danced with me for the past twenty years and have been my master teachers in crafting me into the version of Tracy that you witness today.
If you want to get to know me, follow my writing. I'm fully exposed. I write with unabashed vulnerability and abandon. I'm an open book, ready to spill my secrets in the desire to inspire or help someone else relate and heal.
If you want to get to know me, follow my art. See through my eyes. Wonder with me, heal with me through the beauty and sacredness of nature. Walk along with me as I try and capture the gifts that surround us and bring to light their message of hope and light.
It is my greatest honour to connect with you, dear friend.
Pieces of my Heart
I love to create items that inspire others to heal and live their best lives. My favourite way to do that is to combine beautiful images with uplifting, meaningful words. Words have the power to change lives and beauty touches the Soul when words fall short. I create products with the hopes that they will touch someone's heart, inspire them and guide them through life's uncertainty and challenges.
"Only through love do we heal. Only through experience do we learn."
One of the best examples of my love of text and art for healing are my Sacred Nature Guidance Cards. With forty-four of my photographs, combined with inspirational, channeled messages, they provide any opportunity to heal through the beauty of nature. When I created the deck, I intuited the titles for each card and then sat down one day to write the descriptions for each card in the booklet. Within six or seven hour the words came through me and all forty-four cards had their meanings. I thank Spirit for inspiring the words to provide healing and guidance.
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The Sacred Nature guidance cards can be used to receive a daily message, for inspiration, to meditate with or for guidance. The deck contains forty-four cards (including 7 chakra cards), a booklet and a green hemp pouch to store them in. The cards and booklet are printed locally in Southwestern Ontario.
If you are interested in purchasing a deck, you can buy them here, on Etsy at: The Green Man and the Goddess
or find them in person at Purely Wicked in St. Thomas, Ontario.
For wholesale orders, please contact me at tracykellywrites@gmail.com.
or find them in person at Purely Wicked in St. Thomas, Ontario.
For wholesale orders, please contact me at tracykellywrites@gmail.com.
$30.00 (plus shipping)
Pay with confidence using Paypal.
All products are shipped by regular Canada Post, no tracking unless otherwise requested.
Pay with confidence using Paypal.
All products are shipped by regular Canada Post, no tracking unless otherwise requested.
"True courage is diving head first into the darkest, most painful parts of yourself and trusting that the light it sheds will bring healing."
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Love Is Everywhere"Following your heart will always lead you in the right direction. It takes a great deal of courage and it’s not always an easy path. Sometimes you’re asked to walk through your greatest fears to find your greatest treasures. Along the way your faith will be tested, your heart may stretch more than it’s used to, or even get broken along the way. You may have moments of sheer bliss, or feel as low as you could ever think is possible. You may find exactly what you’re looking for, only to see it slip away from you as quickly as it arrives. Following your heart has no guarantees, and things won’t always go as you had planned. And sometimes that’s a good thing, because it opens up the possibility to experience something your heart may not even have imagined...something that says “Yes, I see now Love IS everywhere,” and “that’s exactly where I needed to go.” You come to realize that following your heart is always the best guide, for it leads you to yourself."
© Copyright Tracy Kelly Poster and Book are available for special order.
Please contact me for details at tracykellywrites@gmail.com Coming Soon! My heart photos can be licensed at www.heartstockphotos.com
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"Set fire to what you thought you knew and find yourself in the ashes."
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We Are OneI am the trees, reaching for the earth yet reaching for the sky.
I am the clouds billowing and blowing with whatever comes my way. I am the flowers, reaching through the darkness to bloom into full life. I am the sun that lights the world and spreads joy to everyone I meet. I am the lakes and streams and rivers that flow and nourish all who thirst. I am the air that sustains and breathes life into all things. I am the ideas, thoughts, intentions and inspirations that create or destroy. I am the many and the few, the one and the only. I am you and you are me, and I am that as well. Wherever I am, you are. Wherever I go, you go as well. So, love with me, dance with me, sing with me and know that WE ARE ONE. © Copyright Tracy Kelly Poster is available for special order.
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Holy Wounds - On GriefMy heart is broken
and in pieces with grief and will never find it's way to wholeness again. Those lost pieces can never be filled or repaired as they are the wounds of loving and it would dishonour them by even trying. Those holes, those wounds reveal the light, the pain pierces their vacant absence. My grief bears witness to everything my heart chose to hold dear. No, those holy wounds cannot ever be healed but they can be honoured for the gifts they bring; the gifts of loving and of letting go. For in letting go do we embrace our own impermanence and we celebrate the fleeting act of love. © Copyright Tracy Kelly |
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Little Girls, Little Boys - On MasculinityWhy do little girls
whose budding bodies and innocence whose tender hearts and fragile emotions become the victims of little boys who have not been taught by their fathers that little girls deserve respect while blossoming into young women Why do little boys grow up thinking that in order to “be a man” to be “cool” to be “popular” they need to perpetuate the lie that they can't honour a little girl for the treasure that is her flowering Goddess instead of objectifying her to feel powerful Little girls call on your inner flame rise up stand up speak up and fight you are nothing short of creation itself in all Her fierce and fiery splendour Fathers teach your little boys to grow into young men with secure masculinity not threatened or threatening not teasing or tormenting the beauty that is the feminine face the mirror to your own inner glory. © Copyright Tracy Kelly |
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