Interview with Shiila Safer

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Shiila Safer is a Creativity Coach, Poet, Artist, Meditation Instructor, Nature Mentor, and member of the Earthtribe. She studied in-depth with noted art therapist and author, Dr. Lucia Capacchione, and is certified as a Creative Journal Expressive Arts Coach. She works with people of all ages to tap into the wisdom, clarity and authenticity of the right brain. Shiila has helped many explore their identity through playful forms of creative expression. She combines an understanding of psychology with a passion for art and a deep reverence for the Earth. Shiila is currently enrolled in classes in the Nature, Trauma and the Soul department of Wisdom University, pursuing her Masters Degree in Wisdom Spirituality with an emphasis on Earth Wisdom and the Primordial Mind. Sitting under Grandmother Oak, Shiila spends time working on Born of the Earth Book 2. She is also being mentored by local author Dr. Will Taegel, Vice President of Wisdom University, and Native American Shaman. Dr. Taegel and Dr. Judith Yost are co-founders of the Nature-based spiritual community, the Earthtribe, in the Texas Hill Country. Shiila and her husband, Dan Gauthier, live in Wimberley, Texas, and spend lots of joyful time in their garden. Shiila offers individual Coaching and Nature Mentoring, as well as facilitates women's circles in Wimberley, using meditations out of her recently published book, Born of the Earth; Your Journal, Poetry, and Meditations in Nature.