Transformative Women’s Journeys

Transformative Women’s Journeys Facilitating women's healing journeys through the art of weaving

This baby is called ‘He who held the waters’. It’s a 16”, teal, Roo skin drum on African pine, adorned with a chrysocoll...
17/06/2026

This baby is called ‘He who held the waters’. It’s a 16”, teal, Roo skin drum on African pine, adorned with a chrysocolla stone.

Chrysocolla, known as “gold glue,” is a stone of empowerment, communication, and tranquility. It eases overwhelm while fostering clarity and calm, especially during tough decisions.

Roo: Community & only moving forward,

Teal: Fosters calmness, emotional healing, & spiritual growth

African Pine: with its enduring green foliage & strength, it symbolizes immortality, longevity, the triumph of life, embodying ancestral presence & a deep sacred connection.

This drum supports healthy emotional expression, revealing how suppression creates patterns that can negatively affect us - reminding us we’re all still children in adult onesies.

Meditation: We headed towards some water pipes where there was a man quietly standing. We entered through the middle pipe & a huge torrent of water rushed through. We had to really push through the very strong current in the water.

On the other side, there were rushing water rapids. We followed them upstream to find their source. At the furthest point, we came across a small boy, about nine years old. He had long hair & sat curled up, his legs pulled to his chest & his head bowed, quietly crying.

He was the source of the water. When I asked if he was okay, he said he was upset - felt misunderstood, unable to express his emotions, & told to toughen up. He carried so much & didn’t know how to release it.

As he turned against himself because he was told his feelings were too overwhelming, the more his anger & unhappiness grew. The rushing water reflected all he was trying to hold inside.

The story of Tiddlelick came to mind, holding onto the water. This boy was containing all his emotions, causing him to withdraw, shut down, & disconnect. Tiddlelick reminded me that sharing our feelings, in a healthy way, is a gift.

Then suddenly i found myself outside a school bus with young boys. They were boisterous & rough. When we got on the bus i stood at the front, i looked around & recognised the pain in each of the boys. There was such grief there. They were exhausted from holding their emotions in.

Suddenly, as I met the gaze of one boys, he began to cry. I gently told him his tears were safe & welcome. A hush fell over the bus, & one by one, the boys began to release the pain they had been holding inside. Beneath it all, they were just frightened little boys, longing for someone to reassure them that everything would be okay.

Vision Quest-seek - get to know your true self, speak up
Shaman - completion - spend time outside, connect with nature
Water - expression - tap into sources of deep emotions, cleansing

This baby is Gallery ONE88 Fine Arts & online for $550

Second baby for the weekend…this is going to be a different colour….teal is already complete. 💙💚The manual making of the...
13/06/2026

Second baby for the weekend…this is going to be a different colour….teal is already complete. 💙💚

The manual making of the drums tend to not take too long (until the back is complicated) but the process leading up to can be happening for well over 3 months.

These two drums have been percolating and hovering on one of the many tabs open in my brain/body/energy field. It’s like there is a permanent portal with information being fed into it and it comes in and gets held there until the time comes to sit and work on the physical drum.

I also have one tab permanently open for my Imaginal exhibition. Guidance pours in and when it’s ready i feel it’s time to weave or make a drum. I’ll be bringing another 6 babies for the exhibition to life in the coming month…

Simultaneously excited and scared….
13/06/2026

Simultaneously excited and scared….

31.8% of deaths for 15-17yr olds. These kids are just babies and they are ending their lives. We have a responsibility t...
08/06/2026

31.8% of deaths for 15-17yr olds. These kids are just babies and they are ending their lives. We have a responsibility to them, to our future generations, to give them the tools to get through the hard times.

Life isn’t easy, there is no rule to say it will be, so why don’t we prepare our children for the fact that life can be hard? It doesn’t mean scaring them or making them feel like it will never be ok, it just means teaching them things like:

* regulating their nervous system;
* increasing their window of tolerance;
* self care practices - meditation, journalling, exercise, sleep hygiene,
* their brain chemistry;
* nutrition and its effects on mental health;
* self awareness;
* healthy relating inc consent;

It is also our responsibility as humans to do our own work. To deal with our own stuff, our intergenerational trauma.

I have 18 days til i sit in silence for 20hrs for our youth. If you can, please donate so that the awesome guys at can do what they do and support our youth.

https://www.20hoursfor20talk.com.au/s/7602/8008

X shar x

So much of how we cope happens unconsciously. We move through life feeling aware, yet there is something beneath the sur...
30/05/2026

So much of how we cope happens unconsciously. We move through life feeling aware, yet there is something beneath the surface guiding our behaviours in ways that soothe our pain, intuitively telling us what we are seeking, what we need, even as we are blinded by the effort of functioning.

A couple of years ago, a friend ended their life. Before that, I had been making drums consistently; it was, and still is, a central part of my process. After their death, however, I found myself unable to lean on that as a way to process. In the six months that followed, I only made one drum.

What I did do was begin to weave baskets. I started with raffia, and while I enjoyed the process, it was hard on my hands. The roughness of the material felt harsh as I worked. Eventually, I switched to yarn and paper coil, and I was struck by how easily the materials flowed through my hands.

At the time, I didn’t fully recognise the compulsion I felt to weave. I knew it was soothing, but I didn’t stop to consider what it was about the baskets themselves that was offering comfort.

About a year later, while talking with someone in the shop about my process, a realisation surfaced. I was making yarn baskets - wrapping soft yarn around rigid paper coil and shaping them into vessels. Yarn is soft, paper coil is hard, and baskets are objects designed to hold.

I had been making soft vessels to carry my pain.

With deeper reflection, I recognised something else. I am very good at holding other people’s pain - as a parent to seven children, that is part of daily life - but I had also been conditioned from childhood to be that vessel. My unconscious was asking me to allow someone else to hold that space for me, to let myself move into deeper vulnerability.

I’m still working on it….Unlearning these patterns of behaviour is a long process.

If you pause and just get real quiet, what is your unconscious driving you to do?

I just finished weaving this baby and she is up for grabs for the next person that donates $200 to my 20Talk fundraiser....
15/05/2026

I just finished weaving this baby and she is up for grabs for the next person that donates $200 to my 20Talk fundraiser. There’ll be a few more pieces that i will weave and put up for grabs over the next month.

This cocoon is to remind us to allow others to be a safe space for us, instead of internalising and withdrawing. Whilst we are alone in our pain, we can have people sit alongside us, they can support us as we traverse the really hard stuff. A chrysalis is normally closed of course but the cocoons i make are often open to serve as a reminder to stay open to connection, even when we are in the weeds or mud. As always the cocoon has copper on it to represent healing, with copper on the inflorescence to symbolise healing through connection.

Send me a message or just head straight to my fundraising page to make your donation. She’ll be hanging at until she is claimed.

www.20hoursfor20talk.com.au/s/7602/8008

12/05/2026

Sharon is taking on the 20-hour challenge to support youth mental health and raise awareness about the importance of prevention.

Working on a new piece for the exhibition….this one is called Sacred Wound….May we all find a way to tend to our sacred ...
03/05/2026

Working on a new piece for the exhibition….this one is called Sacred Wound….

May we all find a way to tend to our sacred wound with love and gentleness, to hold it, love it and ease the weight of its burden.

Tried my hand at some felting over the weekend….getting better slowly…..🤣 ...
28/04/2026

Tried my hand at some felting over the weekend….getting better slowly…..🤣




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