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WHAT?! The ♥️ neuroscience 🧠 of self-expression 🎨 (so excited)

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Tea with the Muse
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May 21, 2026
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Summary

Hi Everyone I hope you can get just as excited about this research as I am. It has been around a while but I am just putting the peices together. References are below.I want you to EXPERIENCE THIS for yourself. Here are three ways NOW! Shiloh Sophia Book a call to explore our 9 month training called Stardust Initation starting in June Join me for my NEW class, called Threshold - we are gonna paint aiwth power! Come along with me and my BFF Amy Ahlers to explore navigating this wild wild world The Neuroscience of Self-Expression: Why the Brush Knows Before We Do I want to speak to you about something I am so passionate about — the neuroscience of self-expression. It comes from my root system, because I come from the Stardust Lineage, and we are creative, spiritual, magical women who pass tools of Intentional Creativity from hand to hand and heart to heart. This isn’t a woo-woo idea, and neither is it entirely scientific. It’s a hybrid. Sometimes the brush knows before we know what’s actually going to happen. I want to tell you about a researcher at Drexel University who has spent a decade strapping near-infrared sensors onto people’s foreheads and watching what happens when the human brain is firing and wiring the moment the paintbrush touches the paper or the canvas. Do you know how long I’ve wanted to do this? Her name is Girija Kaimal — Wow. I would love to have a cup of tea with her. Of course, she doesn’t know me. She probably will at some point, because I’m going to reach out. And she’s probably never heard the words medicine painting — one of the terms we use for our work, because it’s an approach to painting that’s healing. Her data has been confirming what the women in our lineage have known since the 1930s. Self-expression is healing. Painting for us is a spir…