by Erick | Mar 18, 2018 | Iphelia
Last month Kelly Burch, a writer for HealthyWay Media, reached out to see if I would contribute to a piece on the practice of sage cleansing—also known as smudging. It was a great opportunity to link Iphelia’s message of feeling our feelings and tending to our inner...
by Erick | Jan 2, 2018 | Iphelia
There is a magical power we each possess: Our ability to feel. Feelings are magical because they help us perceive and create our reality. But this magical power does not come without a price. We have to feel our feelings. And that means feeling the hard ones too. One...
by Erick | Nov 14, 2016 | Updates
The creative process can at times be grueling. It keeps showing me more, revealing and revising itself more. Refine that, add this, draw another image, write more, define more, clear this up, cut this out, more white space, less fluff, create an appendix, should there...
by Erick | Sep 7, 2016 | Iphelia
I first met Iphelia about seven years ago. I was facing a major crisis within myself and in my life. I had just written an angry-rant in my journal in which I was desperately trying to validate my own feelings. In my writing I had asserted myself and pushed back...
by Erick | Aug 18, 2016 | Iphelia
Iphelia’s name is derived from the name Ophelia. Ophelia means to know and to be like a serpent, and is the name of a character from the Shakespearean play Hamlet. Shakespeare’s Ophelia was sensitive and emotionally repressed. She felt torn between the wills of her...
