Elena 🎨✊🏽
@feelingndealing.bsky.social
Visual artist, lifter-upper, collaborator, poly-crisis carer, animal and dream tender, LatinX, Southerner (U.S.), nerd, liberation-minded psychotherapist, arts-based researcher, she/her #pacing #masking
www.fndealing.com
patreon.com/Feelingndealing
www.fndealing.com
patreon.com/Feelingndealing
Pinned
the symbolic lab — shea in the catskills
sheainthecatskills.com
The 2025 Symbolic Lab is a collaborative, online, arts-based research project facilitated by @sheainthecatskills.com & myself around the theme of trust.
These gatherings are offered by donation. No prior experience is needed to join!
sheainthecatskills.com/the-symbolic...
These gatherings are offered by donation. No prior experience is needed to join!
sheainthecatskills.com/the-symbolic...
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
many more of us dream of beloved and just communities, dream of better lives for all children and all future beings. Of an earth healed and regarded as alive and sacred. And to move toward these dreams perhaps we need visions of being surrounded by holy generativity, creative fires, Divine love
And Their Wings Touched Each Other — What A Shrink Thinks
I need to take a breath sometimes. I need a birds-eye, angel-eye, cosmic-view sometimes. Just for a moment, so I can keep going.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
many more of us dream of beloved and just communities, dream of better lives for all children and all future beings. Of an earth healed and regarded as alive and sacred. And to move toward these dreams perhaps we need visions of being surrounded by holy generativity, creative fires, Divine love
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
“Her viscera trembled all together to her very foundation. Undeterred in discharging her magic, she then spoke the spells.”
A mother’s curse.
Image by @sheainthecatskills.com
A mother’s curse.
Image by @sheainthecatskills.com
A Mother’s Curse — What A Shrink Thinks
Progenitors, creators and the earth have been too patient for far too long. Beware a Mother’s Curse.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“Her viscera trembled all together to her very foundation. Undeterred in discharging her magic, she then spoke the spells.”
A mother’s curse.
Image by @sheainthecatskills.com
A mother’s curse.
Image by @sheainthecatskills.com
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
my oct. offering:
* you might be interested
* whats inspiring me now
* #tarot offering: the queen of swords #tarotsky
"Wisdom + tenderness gained thru suffering. Alchemizing bitterness into a wit + kindness more deeply rooted than niceness. Taking responsibility for the quality of our experience."
* you might be interested
* whats inspiring me now
* #tarot offering: the queen of swords #tarotsky
"Wisdom + tenderness gained thru suffering. Alchemizing bitterness into a wit + kindness more deeply rooted than niceness. Taking responsibility for the quality of our experience."
October 2025: the power of discernment — shea in the catskills
the power of discernment: queen of swords The power of discernment. Wisdom + tenderness gained thru suffering. Alchemizing bitterness into a wit + kindness more deeply rooted than niceness. Taking re...
sheainthecatskills.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
When real-life headlines read like they come out of nightmares, it's a lifeline to have your dreams sift through the barrage of daily images and offer up one that's informative, helpful, insightful -- and then have a community of people just talk about it together.
Our brains are trying to help us.
Our brains are trying to help us.
Anyway - PLENTY of seats open -
and I try to reserve four free seats for every group I facilitate - the rest are "pay-whatever-you-can-afford" by donation.
This system actually consistently takes care of me!
So please feel free to join if you are interested!
and I try to reserve four free seats for every group I facilitate - the rest are "pay-whatever-you-can-afford" by donation.
This system actually consistently takes care of me!
So please feel free to join if you are interested!
Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building
practice
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
When real-life headlines read like they come out of nightmares, it's a lifeline to have your dreams sift through the barrage of daily images and offer up one that's informative, helpful, insightful -- and then have a community of people just talk about it together.
Our brains are trying to help us.
Our brains are trying to help us.
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
If propgandists, fascists, LLMs and algorithms know more about how your emotional response cycle operates than you do -
this trouble is deeper than you know.
Your emotions are trying to perform important functions
4 seats open
2 of them free 2 by donation
Starts tomorrow
this trouble is deeper than you know.
Your emotions are trying to perform important functions
4 seats open
2 of them free 2 by donation
Starts tomorrow
Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks
or grown-ups who have feelings
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If propgandists, fascists, LLMs and algorithms know more about how your emotional response cycle operates than you do -
this trouble is deeper than you know.
Your emotions are trying to perform important functions
4 seats open
2 of them free 2 by donation
Starts tomorrow
this trouble is deeper than you know.
Your emotions are trying to perform important functions
4 seats open
2 of them free 2 by donation
Starts tomorrow
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
@feelingndealing.bsky.social relevant to your interests?
a conversation we have to have if we respect the arena of open dialogue
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
@feelingndealing.bsky.social relevant to your interests?
I’m so looking forward to Saturday’s gathering: Trust in Power ⭐️ who will join us?
#art #tarot #artsbasedresearch
#art #tarot #artsbasedresearch
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’m so looking forward to Saturday’s gathering: Trust in Power ⭐️ who will join us?
#art #tarot #artsbasedresearch
#art #tarot #artsbasedresearch
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
i've been a part of Nina's co-resting groups for over a year. after leaving behind my life as a monk, it's the one place i've been able to experience the joy + power of the teaching "zazen has no fixed form." a profound spiritual practice + a place to show up authentically with others #inthesetimes
In response to feeling isolated by chronic illness and appreciative of remote access to community, I host online Co-Resting Groups. They provide a way to gently socialize and rest in community.
Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!
www.co-resting.org
Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!
www.co-resting.org
Co-Resting
virtual gatherings for community support
www.co-resting.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
i've been a part of Nina's co-resting groups for over a year. after leaving behind my life as a monk, it's the one place i've been able to experience the joy + power of the teaching "zazen has no fixed form." a profound spiritual practice + a place to show up authentically with others #inthesetimes
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
Starts tomorrow!
Happy to make room for more! 🌸
Happy to make room for more! 🌸
Several by donation /pay-whatever-you-can seats open for this workshop that focuses on easing us through our cultural resistances to talking about mortality and the role it plays in the global crises we are facing:
Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks
Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of
mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential
realities.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Starts tomorrow!
Happy to make room for more! 🌸
Happy to make room for more! 🌸
I’m looking forward to this discussion with Martha and Dr. Charles — they’re asking important questions 💡
Discounts available for this pair of discussions on community work:
Discussion - Community Work: Why Bother & What Stops Us
RECORDING AVAILABLE
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’m looking forward to this discussion with Martha and Dr. Charles — they’re asking important questions 💡
My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
September 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
"Totalitarians manipulate us is through our heightened anxiety about death and dying—as the dominant culture has failed to initiate so many of us into healthy relationship to our mortality.
...But we also have to be prepared to mourn, and find meaning in lives that are finite."
don't miss this!
...But we also have to be prepared to mourn, and find meaning in lives that are finite."
don't miss this!
Circling the Drain: Living Intentionally with Mortality
a gentle, joyful by-donation 16 week workshop starting Wed 9/24
open.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"Totalitarians manipulate us is through our heightened anxiety about death and dying—as the dominant culture has failed to initiate so many of us into healthy relationship to our mortality.
...But we also have to be prepared to mourn, and find meaning in lives that are finite."
don't miss this!
...But we also have to be prepared to mourn, and find meaning in lives that are finite."
don't miss this!
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
@feelingndealing.bsky.social + I will be gathering in the zoom room for The Symbolic Lab: Trust in POWER this coming Saturday, 9/27 + we would love to see you there...
this Lab is offered by donation/pay-what-you-can
image of the Fool arcanum from @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crow Death Magic
this Lab is offered by donation/pay-what-you-can
image of the Fool arcanum from @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crow Death Magic
The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Power — shea in the catskills
The 2025 Symbolic Lab is a collaborative, online, arts-based research project facilitated by shea in the catskills + Elena Solano around the theme of trust . Each month, we’ll take up trust—what ...
sheainthecatskills.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@feelingndealing.bsky.social + I will be gathering in the zoom room for The Symbolic Lab: Trust in POWER this coming Saturday, 9/27 + we would love to see you there...
this Lab is offered by donation/pay-what-you-can
image of the Fool arcanum from @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crow Death Magic
this Lab is offered by donation/pay-what-you-can
image of the Fool arcanum from @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crow Death Magic
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
This workshop still has up to seven seats open
And free seats are still available
Hoping it will fill enough to run
(I promise it isn’t stressful or depressing)
And free seats are still available
Hoping it will fill enough to run
(I promise it isn’t stressful or depressing)
Sept 24th: Wednesdays
an online workshop and peer discussion group designed for anyone who wants to expand their ability to withstand and accept existential realities, to develop healthier, more related responses to encounters with death & dying in the wider culture:
By donation/free seats open
an online workshop and peer discussion group designed for anyone who wants to expand their ability to withstand and accept existential realities, to develop healthier, more related responses to encounters with death & dying in the wider culture:
By donation/free seats open
Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks
Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of
mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential
realities.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This workshop still has up to seven seats open
And free seats are still available
Hoping it will fill enough to run
(I promise it isn’t stressful or depressing)
And free seats are still available
Hoping it will fill enough to run
(I promise it isn’t stressful or depressing)
I trust Martha wholeheartedly and highly recommend all of her groups and workshops 👇🏽
Listen: one of the ways that people survive and hold on to reality in totalitarian environments is by forming sanity/reality pods - circles where we can tell each other the truths we hear and see and defend against collective delusions
You can join one of mine or I’ll help you build your own.
You can join one of mine or I’ll help you build your own.
Groups & Workshops | Join Engaging Community Workshops — What A Shrink Thinks
Explore community groups, workshops, and trainings focused on community resilience, discernment and psycho-spiritual growth, Join our events to connect and learn.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I trust Martha wholeheartedly and highly recommend all of her groups and workshops 👇🏽
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
they are ready for the world!
introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines box set
plus: a new video about the Study Tarot Series, pre-orders for @therebis.com, The Symbolic Lab with @feelingndealing.bsky.social + The Correspondence natal chart offering
#tarot #tarotsky #zines #zinesky
introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines box set
plus: a new video about the Study Tarot Series, pre-orders for @therebis.com, The Symbolic Lab with @feelingndealing.bsky.social + The Correspondence natal chart offering
#tarot #tarotsky #zines #zinesky
a september interlude — shea in the catskills
Introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines Box Set
sheainthecatskills.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
they are ready for the world!
introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines box set
plus: a new video about the Study Tarot Series, pre-orders for @therebis.com, The Symbolic Lab with @feelingndealing.bsky.social + The Correspondence natal chart offering
#tarot #tarotsky #zines #zinesky
introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines box set
plus: a new video about the Study Tarot Series, pre-orders for @therebis.com, The Symbolic Lab with @feelingndealing.bsky.social + The Correspondence natal chart offering
#tarot #tarotsky #zines #zinesky
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
september newsletter is out...
the knight of pentacles: Quality control, proofreading, beta testing, run-thrus + troubleshooting. Spreadsheets, timestamps, follow-up, data collection + analysis. Attention to detail...
image from @isabellarotman.bsky.social's This Might Hurt Tarot
#tarot #tarotsky
the knight of pentacles: Quality control, proofreading, beta testing, run-thrus + troubleshooting. Spreadsheets, timestamps, follow-up, data collection + analysis. Attention to detail...
image from @isabellarotman.bsky.social's This Might Hurt Tarot
#tarot #tarotsky
September 2025: steady as she goes... — shea in the catskills
steady as she goes: knight of pentacles The power of consistency, continuity, thoroughness + discipline. Inexorability: it’s only a matter of time. Extreme practicality. Responsibility: taking it ser...
sheainthecatskills.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
september newsletter is out...
the knight of pentacles: Quality control, proofreading, beta testing, run-thrus + troubleshooting. Spreadsheets, timestamps, follow-up, data collection + analysis. Attention to detail...
image from @isabellarotman.bsky.social's This Might Hurt Tarot
#tarot #tarotsky
the knight of pentacles: Quality control, proofreading, beta testing, run-thrus + troubleshooting. Spreadsheets, timestamps, follow-up, data collection + analysis. Attention to detail...
image from @isabellarotman.bsky.social's This Might Hurt Tarot
#tarot #tarotsky
Tomorrow @sheainthecatskills.com & I will be hosting Trust in Communication — who would like to join us?
The 2025 Symbolic Lab is a collaborative, online, arts-based research project facilitated by @sheainthecatskills.com & myself around the theme of trust.
These gatherings are offered by donation. No prior experience is needed to join!
sheainthecatskills.com/the-symbolic...
These gatherings are offered by donation. No prior experience is needed to join!
sheainthecatskills.com/the-symbolic...
the symbolic lab — shea in the catskills
sheainthecatskills.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Tomorrow @sheainthecatskills.com & I will be hosting Trust in Communication — who would like to join us?
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
Meet @sheainthecatskills.com, a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, organizer and contemplative. We are so excited to be publishing their work. For The Devil issue, shea wrote a personal essay titled "On Liberating My Wild Devotion" about their relationship to eroticism & the male gaze ❤️🔥
August 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Meet @sheainthecatskills.com, a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, organizer and contemplative. We are so excited to be publishing their work. For The Devil issue, shea wrote a personal essay titled "On Liberating My Wild Devotion" about their relationship to eroticism & the male gaze ❤️🔥
Reposted by Elena 🎨✊🏽
Some helpful numbers:
Gov. Greg Abbott: (512) 463-1782
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: (512) 463-5342
AG Ken Paxton Constituent affairs: 800-252-8011
Speaker Dustin Burrows: (512) 463-0542
Bill Authors:
Rep Todd Hunter: (512) 463-0672
Senator Phil King: (512) 463-0110
Gov. Greg Abbott: (512) 463-1782
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: (512) 463-5342
AG Ken Paxton Constituent affairs: 800-252-8011
Speaker Dustin Burrows: (512) 463-0542
Bill Authors:
Rep Todd Hunter: (512) 463-0672
Senator Phil King: (512) 463-0110
August 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Some helpful numbers:
Gov. Greg Abbott: (512) 463-1782
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: (512) 463-5342
AG Ken Paxton Constituent affairs: 800-252-8011
Speaker Dustin Burrows: (512) 463-0542
Bill Authors:
Rep Todd Hunter: (512) 463-0672
Senator Phil King: (512) 463-0110
Gov. Greg Abbott: (512) 463-1782
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: (512) 463-5342
AG Ken Paxton Constituent affairs: 800-252-8011
Speaker Dustin Burrows: (512) 463-0542
Bill Authors:
Rep Todd Hunter: (512) 463-0672
Senator Phil King: (512) 463-0110
I think that healthy, boundaried, non-extractive methods of gathering in community are worth preserving. @whatashrinkthinks.com has a new cohort beginning in the fall 👇🏽
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/group-group
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/group-group
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I think that healthy, boundaried, non-extractive methods of gathering in community are worth preserving. @whatashrinkthinks.com has a new cohort beginning in the fall 👇🏽
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/group-group
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/group-group
I’m appreciating these elaborations from @margaret.bsky.social on deescalating conflict that isn’t with the enemy 🌺
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
August 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m appreciating these elaborations from @margaret.bsky.social on deescalating conflict that isn’t with the enemy 🌺
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Our dignity as human beings is worth preserving imo
A question for contemplation inked on watercolor #art from the late and beloved Dr. Barbara Holmes 🌸
“What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”
“What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”
August 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Our dignity as human beings is worth preserving imo
A question for contemplation inked on watercolor #art from the late and beloved Dr. Barbara Holmes 🌸
“What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”
“What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A question for contemplation inked on watercolor #art from the late and beloved Dr. Barbara Holmes 🌸
“What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”
“What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”