I am currently preparing for our Big Move to Maine, so I’m taking this month off from my column. Please enjoy Cat Caracelo’s column below!

It's Time for Our Annual

KaleidoSoul SoulCollage®

Zoom 4-Hour Retreat!

Akhilandeshvari:

Goddess of

Never Not Broken

with Facilitator 

Anne Marie Bennett

Saturday September 21

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Have you ever felt like your life was “going to pieces” or falling apart? Did you ever wonder how to access the power and resilience to put yourself back together? And what does your Inner Perfectionist have to do with all of this?



For four hours we’ll gather in community via Zoom, or you can call in via phone. There will be time for a bit of teaching, lots of journaling, and community sharing as well as time for card making and working with your cards! Recording will be available after, so if you can’t attend “live,” you’ll still be able to enjoy it.

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Using Tree Wisdom & Healing in Your

SoulCollage® Cards

with SoulCollage® Facilitator Roberta Rook from Maryland

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern

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Only $10 for non-members.

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I am Cat Caracelo, M.A. a SoulCollage® facilitator and founder of JourneyPath® Institute where I am dedicated to depth work and transformative arts as a catalyst for change. I live in Austin, Texas, but have landed back in California for a few months! My work travels with me and I continue to offer coaching and classes, individually and in global teaching forums. This column is for all of you who are exploring your creative voice and are ready to discover more depth your SoulCollage® journey.

The Three Graces: 

Pleasure, Play and Possibility

The recent heat of midsummer generated an early and intense storm in Mexico. The storm traveled across land and sea to meet land again, this time at hurricane strength. It crossed a huge swath of land—including Texas—causing destruction as rains, winds, and floods changed the landscape of life. 

In a reflective mood, I thought about how this immense energy was impacting so many people:

How does one survive the unexpected intensity of any kind of sudden storm rising inside one’s life? Where can Pleasure, Play and Possibility offer balance and alignment?

Most of us feel the swirling energies of these strange days: generated like storms that are whipped up in personal or communal happenings, found in collective and global experience. When you are thrown off center, anxiety can arise naturally. During any kind of upheaval, there is a deep need to find center, embrace grace, and restore balance. There is a need not to be told from “outside” what will bring you pleasure, but instead—a need to take the time to find and cultivate connection from “inside.” Ask yourself what matters most as you seek and find more sources of Pleasure, Play and Possibility, in everyday ways.

• Pleasure is a positive feeling or experience that brings satisfaction, happiness, and gratification. Pleasure is expressed in completely unique ways for each of us. 

• The experience of pleasure can be simple things like enjoying a delicious meal, listening to music, making art, getting lost in a good book, spending time with loved ones, or engaging in activities that bring ease or joy.

• Pleasure can be found sensually in the sound of rain, the warmth of sun on your skin, the taste of a favorite food, walking along a path through the woods, the scent of a memory, or the soothing touch of massage.

• Pleasure can be derived from wandering, getting lost or achieving. Pleasure can also be experienced through emotional connections, intimacy, friends, community, and positive relationships.

• Play refers to engaging in activities for enjoyment, amusement, or recreation. It is often spontaneous, voluntary, and involves a sense of freedom and creativity. 

• Play is often associated with a sense of fun, curiosity, and the absence of external pressures or obligations.

• Pleasure and Play are distinctive and subjective experiences, personal and unique, that will add richness and fulfillment to your life. While pleasure is part of the delight of life, play may be an even more important yet elusive experience for some of us. 

Recently my granddaughter was visiting. She is five years old and that in itself motivates a more playful energy when she visits. We went looking for adventure and found ourselves searching for a colossal troll named Malin, in the woods. She was designed to inspire presence, earth wisdom, and water blessings. In the traveling to find Malin, the search itself was playful and the unexpected adventure inspired us.

I was reminded that play brings pleasure in ways that cannot be prescribed, it is the activation of unexpected delight that stimulates pleasure and vitality.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, 

awakening the whole person within mind and body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity

and intuition. ~ Viola Spolin

The amplified energetics of play can also be softened with simple pleasure, and this sweet space of dancing between the two often brings forth awareness of possibilities. Notice where sensations and insights are active, being nurtured within pleasure. These are often reshaped and energized through play. As the living stories of experience are entertained, they will become enlivened as possibilities are being sparked and birthed. 

Just as we are influenced by intensity when stormy times are whipped up outside of the self, we are always invited to call on the Three Graces - Pleasure, Play and Possibilities. Invite them to dance with you and tip the center back to balance.

You are invited to create one SoulCollage® card that holds the energies of these Three Graces, or make one card for each: inviting Pleasure, Play and Possibilities. These cards will expand your access to these energies and help to center when the storm surge comes. 

Cat Caracelo, M.A. is a SoulCollage® Facilitator since 2007. Working with Jungian Depth, archetypal awareness, expressive arts and transformative process she guides individual and group process internationally. Cat is the founder of JourneyPath® Institute where her dynamic eCourses can enhance creative depth. She also offers upcoming MoonCircles Facilitator Training, Depth Coach Training and Retreats all rich with art as process and mythic themes to develop and expand experience. Please visit Cat’s website to find articles and information about programs and more.