In my humble opinion, I continue to learn and realize more and more that LOVE is EVERYTHING.

That Love is this powerful force that is there for us, for our family, our friends and wonderful people we come across in our path making the world a better place. 

But there is one very important piece to love that we seem to forget…

It begins with the love we need to give to OURSELVES that we can then pour out onto others.

To better understand the depth of each design in my digital collection, I wrote a little about my journey with each of art design, how each of these lessons has incorporated and supported me in the last 4 years and my own personal life and my way of thinking. The first one of this Purposeful Dreamer art collection is:

Love is Everything.

What fills your heart?

For me, thinking about my son's smiles, thinking about the people I love in my life being happy and healthy fills my heart 🥰❤️

Becoming a mom again brought up a lot about myself I didn't know I still needed to work on, like understanding the anxiety and depression that came from a long postpartum healing process I was NOT prepared for 😔 

When Salvador was very little and I was breastfeeding and not sleeping, I felt like my insides were screaming, overstimulated and tired and my anger, and frustration which then turned into sadness getting the best of me too many times to want to admit 😢 I was so tired and sad of letting my emotions affect not just my day but my family’s. 

Thanks to my husband pushing me to get the help I needed to look inside myself and give myself the love and care my body and soul needed to be the human and mom I wanted to be, things have gotten better and better.  

I wish I could say it was simple, but learning to give myself the love and grace I needed plus the love of my family gave me the strength to move forward.

I wanted to make an art piece that reminded me that LOVE can conquer even the darkest of moments, because LOVE is EVERYTHING.  

But HOW can I find that love in myself again? 

I think it's a unique journey for each and every one but I think we can also relate in so many ways.

There have been so many little things I’ve tried to work on to find more peace, inspiration and joy in my life, but the first, most simple and effective way I learned is by practicing changing the way I speak to myself, that inner voice that sometimes can say really hurtful things and influences so much of our lives. Its so hard at times but they say we should treat that inner voice as you would your best friend, the person you love the most in this world. 

I began with practicing speaking kinder to myself when I looked at myself in the mirror or just when I have a negative thought trying to flip that conversation inside of me, It has not been easy and I’m still learning and failing at it but when I think back to myself 4 years ago, I had such a different relationship with myself, I didn't realize how mean I was talking to myself, treating that inner part of me in such a terrible way. 

They say we have thousands of thoughts each day, and many of them are habitual without us realizing it!  

I think that's why mindfulness through creativity makes so much sense to help us listen to ourselves better. 

And then, maybe because of the Capricorn in me, one way I have learned to feel the love for myself, is by following through with the commitments I put in myself, which don’t get me wrong, can be really hard! 

Finishing and working on doing something that is specially important for me, like finishing my own digital art collection. It feels so special to me as an artist because the process to get there has so much meaning than what you can see from just pen to paper, for me it, creating comes with so many lessons and ways to try and understand life, I don’t know why, but it seems to be my method, and what comes out from my work. 

I sometimes wonder if it's because words are my love language I try to incorporate in my work in one way or another. 

I knew this collection needed to start with LOVE because when I need to act and make a decision in life, especially the hard ones, I will choose Love ALWAYS. 

Karina Morales Hines

Purposeful Dreamer

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