
You’ve worked so hard on yourself. You deserve to feel the difference.
You may understand your patterns, know where they began, and still find yourself caught in them. Overthinking. Putting yourself last. Staying busy because slowing down feels uncomfortable. Holding everything together while feeling exhausted inside.
We carry so much—our histories, responsibilities, losses, and the constant demands of a world that rarely slows down. Sometimes that overflow shows up as chronic anxiety, burnout, or feeling disconnected from ourselves, even while we keep doing what needs to be done.
I know that place. I came to this work with my own exhaustion, burnout, chronic anxiety, chronic pain, and the challenges of living with autoimmune conditions. I was searching, learning, and doing so many things to help myself. Yet I hadn’t recognized how little safety I felt within.
I was asking myself to change before I had a foundation to support that change. I was doing so much out of order.
I couldn’t simply will myself into feeling safe, trusting more, or responding differently. I needed to slow down and listen to the parts of me I had been pushing past—the anxious parts, the exhausted parts, and the parts that believed I had to hold everything together.
The order matters. Safety. Trust. Transformation.
Your experiences are different from mine. What feels supportive to one person may feel overwhelming to another. A prescribed set of steps cannot account for everything you’ve lived through or what you need today.
You matter. Your story matters. Where you are right now matters.
That is where our work begins.
My role is to help you learn about you: how your nervous system responds to life, the patterns you return to, and the parts of you that have worked so hard to protect you. Together, we begin building a more compassionate relationship with those parts, creating room for what they feel and discovering what they need.
You can want change and feel afraid of it. You can love your life and still feel overwhelmed. You can be strong and need care. There is room for all of you here.
Drawing from Somatic Clarity, Brainspotting, parts work, mindfulness, and creative expression when it feels right for you, I shape our work around your needs and your pace. We notice what helps you settle, what brings you back to yourself, and what makes it possible to approach difficult feelings with more support.
So much of this process is unlearning: the belief that you must always do more, search harder, or become someone else before you can feel at home in yourself.
There is nothing broken about who you are. There may be hurt that needs tending, patterns that have outlived their purpose, and parts of you that have waited a long time to be heard.
Often, the kindest language we can offer our nervous system is less. Less pressure. Less forcing. A little more room to breathe, notice, and simply be.
As we make space beneath the busyness and noise, we can begin to reconnect with the stillness, wisdom, and wholeness already within us. We learn to recognize our own inner compass—and to trust it alongside the support we receive from others.
Where insight becomes embodied change.
This is how we begin expanding our capacity for life: through small, supported experiences of feeling, staying present, and finding our way back when things become too much.
In everyday life, that might mean speaking up without spending hours questioning yourself afterward. Resting without having to earn it. Staying connected to yourself in a difficult conversation. Allowing sadness and joy to share the same day. Having more room for closeness, creativity, and the things you’ve been longing to explore.
Beyond coping, toward healing.
Coping is necessary sometimes. It helps us get through. But a life spent continually bracing, managing, and pushing through can be exhausting. Here, we make room to tend to what lies beneath those responses, so more of your energy becomes available for living.
This is a gentle process. There may be tender moments, but you don’t have to force your way through them. There is room for relief, curiosity, laughter, and discovery, too.
You have a part in your own healing. Your body’s signals, your growing self-understanding, and your ability to meet yourself with compassion can become a kind of medicine—a way of returning to your own North Star.
My invitation to you right now is simply to wander through this website. Take your time. Notice what speaks to you, what feels familiar, or what opens a little possibility. And if you feel drawn to explore together, you’re welcome to book a free consultation.
We’ll begin with a conversation, just as you are.
Book your free one-time consultation to learn more about our self-coaching program and then decide if SHIFT is the program for you.
What people are saying

"it works!"
Edvique was an amazing coach who truly changed my life. Her gentleness and brain spotting were instrumental in helping me break free from the functional freeze I was experiencing. I came to her after hearing her at a workshop. Honestly I was skeptical, thinking I didn’t need this as my life was already pretty good, but something in me kept pulling me to make the call and I'm so glad I did. Today, I have more energy and feel a sense of excitement I didn't have before. I'm even considering starting my dream little business.
Mary S
CUMMING, GA

"it works!"
"it works!"
As a recovering addict, I was struggling to stay sober despite attending 12-step meetings. Life felt like a daily battle, and I sincerely didn’t feel safe in my own skin. I met Edvique at an art workshop, and the art helped me find calmness when I was spiraling. But it wasn’t enough and I was still struggling feeling like I was failing. Edvique helped understand the role of the nervous system and how unprocessed trauma affects it. She helped me understand that Trauma was what happened inside of me because of what happened to me and helped me start unraveling and releasing all that stuff I never healed. We used art and Brian spotting and it was actually easy and fun, even the tears were welcomed. Her work was always focused on healing from a positive perspective not focused on what happened to me but how it affected me. The healing was gentle and slow enough where I was able to integrate what I was learning in my daily life and start seeing results. Little by little, as I healed my wounded parts my spark returned. I was becoming whole again. Although I have a long way to go, I have the knowledge and the tools and the ability to feel my emotions and best part, I have a newfound hope and excitement for what’s to come
Karen M
SANDY SPRINGS, GA

We met Edvique with Living my Now last year in 2022. My daughter had tried traditional therapy. Every
time she left therapy, she would say she was not sure what she got out of it. Then we heard about
Edvique and Living my Now through a recommendation. My daughter has loved seeing Edvique from
the start. She is patient, an amazing listener, and has had great insight for my daughter. They work
through art, while working through issues, which my daughter has loved. My daughter has become
stronger emotionally, more confident, done better in school, and most importantly stayed away from
drugs, alcohol and nicotine after seeing Edvique. Edvique has gone above and beyond, and once in an
effort to help my daughter overcome her fear of working at the gym, actually met her there and worked
out with her. Edvique has been an incredible blessing to my daughter and our family, and I highly
recommend her.
KELLY HERRIN
CUMMING, GA

I am a public defender. For more than 15 years, I have defended people sentenced to death in the United States. People who end up on death row typically were children who grew up in dire poverty, sexually and physically abused, and often have serious mental illnesses. The prisoners are isolated and do not have access to mental health care. I have been working with Edvique and have used her mindfulness drawing to help me personally cope with the secondary trauma I experience through my career. I wish that Edvique could work directly with all of my clients because I know I would see improvement in their day-to-day lives.
ROBIN KONRAD
MONTGOMERY, AL

My name is Sara Romano. I am a social worker and work with clients who are on Death Row in Alabama. I’ve been friends with Edvique’s for many years and have watched her manage her life with her creative mindfulness meditation. Due to covid, she began doing the creative mindfulness meditation via zoom in August of 2020. I began doing it with her that very month, she offers it weekly and free of charge. Many people participate in it including myself, my daughter, and my granddaughters. For us it’s been amazing to get in the meditative zone and decrease stress and anxiety. For my granddaughters, they learned that nothing needs to be perfect in life. I thought that I wasn’t creative and couldn’t do it but learned otherwise. It’s not about being creative it’s about getting into the meditation and realizing that I can control my stress and anxiety as I draw. During the day when I am frustrated by the work that I do, I remind myself that I can handle it and that I don’t have to be perfect and can’t do everything possible for my clients as much as I’d like to. Because it’s not possible to do everything possible due to not having enough time in a day, week, month, or year to get everything done for my clients.
Edvique did a zoom meeting with my office and for the Federal Defenders across the United States for creative mindfulness meditation. It was amazing and I know that everyone enjoyed it and appreciated it very much.
SARA ROMANO
ROCHESTER, NY

The staff of the Multicultural Program of CFVC had the opportunity to receive 10 coaching sessions of the Mindfulness, Meditation, and Manifestation Coaching SHIFT Program provided by Edvique. The sessions allowed us to learn how to concentrate through doodling to prevents our minds wandering, engage with the moment and be able to pay attention to information presented. It also taught us to guide the clients how to reconnect thinking and feeling, since doodling is a whole brain activity, spontaneous, at times unconscious, self-soothing, satisfying, exploratory, memory-enhancing, and mindful. The techniques learned focuses on training attention and awareness, putting the mind in a calm and stable state, and help to exercise our creative brain hemisphere. Multicultural staff is now providing a trauma-informed approach to mindfulness meditation through doodling to Spanish speaking survivors of domestic violence to enhance skills that support trauma recovery.
NORMA MENDOZA
CUMMING, GA

Please accept this as my most heartfelt recommendation for SHIFT. I am a professional therapist, specializing in addiction, addicted family systems and am a certified interventionist. I have had the pleasure of personally experiencing the benefits of participating in SHIFT, as well as observing the benefits experienced by others in a therapeutic setting. Edvique brings a very thoughtful, judgment free, and gentle approach to working with her clients. She has a thorough understanding of the neuroplastic change that is possible utilizing the SHIFT modules. Clients are guided through each module in a mindful manner allowing the change to take place without overthinking or over analyzing, which creates less resistance or anxiety. The SHIFT program can be beneficial for a variety of clients with various issues. I whole heartedly recommend SHIFT and Edvique.
LOUANN ALTSHULER
CUMMING, GA

As an individual and Family Therapist for over 30 years I am always on the lookout for tools to aid clients. I have found The Meditative Drawing every Friday since the onset of the pandemic to be a game changer for my well-being as well as my work with clients.
This new form of meditation is part of my daily self care and has had a positive impact on my ability to reduce personal feelings of “burnout.” As a byproduct of COVID and it’s far reaching affects -the mental health community suffers a mental exhaustion that has been unprecedented to date.
Since I have found the practice to have a positive impact on myself, I have referred several clients to the Friday Meditative Drawing sessions. These clients report greater frustration tolerance while having more access to their imagination, creativity, and intuition. I believe these are three key components for problem solving.
I highly recommend this method of creative meditation for individuals, corporations and institutions that could offer this tool to their varies members in this post Pandemic environment.
PHOEBE CANNON
CUMMING, GA

I love being a nurse right now bc I do get my connection with others and I get to serve. I have experienced a lot of front row seats to human experience through my patients. Some days are absolutely fulfilling to serve my patients and other days very very very fear producing and emotional. I have been learning how to detach in order to be mentally well, but I have also had to get into EMDR, counseling and take medication bc PTSD. I try very hard to stay mentally healthy, which I’m grateful for the art outlet. It has been extremely poetic to my hurting heart and healing for my serving hands. When I do mandalas or doodling, my hands get to do something toward my serenity. They get to focus on my healing. When I am at work, my hands are focused on my patient’s healing. So, the art is time for Kelly. I have learned that the only thing you can control is yourself. It has been a tough learning opportunity, but I am growing.
KELLEY
CUMMING, GA

“At the time I spoke with Edvique I had sought various avenues
(Including professional counseling) to help my daughter stop self-harming. I shared with Edvique what was happening with Rachel and she asked me to bring her to her house for an initial "play” visit. That day, it was just the 3 of us and I was kind of a spectator while I watched Edvique take a genuine interest in learning about Rachel. Working with Edvique ignited or possibly uncovered a passion in Rachel that absolutely changed her path to a more positive path in life. She loves to spend time with her mentor/mom/coach figure WHENEVER possible. As Rachel's mom, I couldn't be happier to have found someone who LOVES my daughter like one of her own. The fact that they love to create beautiful things together might have been the initial connection, but their relationship is so much more than that today and I'm so thankful for that. Many years later, Rachel indicated to me that spending time with
Edvique and learning how to create beautiful things with her had saved her. I take that statement very seriously. For the record, Rachel is thriving today, she is happy, confident and a 4.0 student in college”
BETH B
ROSWELL, GA

My daughter, Chris participated in Edvique’s teen program. During that time Edvique made a positive impact on Chris as well as my entire family as we navigated through the tough teenage years.
When I first spoke with Edvique I babbled out our story full of heartache and concerns about Chris, I cried about her low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and her self-mutilating behavior. Chris had begun cutting herself a year before. Counseling and medication seemed ineffective. When I finally took a breath, Edvique explained her passion about how she has seen creative mindfulness work for young girls and suggested a casual meeting with me and my daughter at her studio in her home.
That evening meeting was life changing for all of us. Edvique and Chris felt an immediate connection. Chris was enthralled with Edvique’s charismatic personality, compassionate listening
and her artistic talents. I knew Chris’s felt safe with Edvique as I listened to my daughter openly share her thoughts, feelings, and even the fact that she had been cutting herself. Edvique listened with love to Chris for two hours that night. Our healing had begun!
Since the first meeting our family has begun to heal and move forward on a positive path toward recovery. My daughter looks forward to each mindfulness art session with Edvique. Chris has developed new coping skills to help her handle the insecurities, stress and anxiety of being a teenager in today’s world. She now spends time painting or making jewelry. Chris reaches into her creative soul and produces art whether she is happy or sad. She no longer cuts herself or shuts herself away from our family. She has also shared these healthy coping skills with some of her friends, who now have their own art journals and jewelry making items. Through Edvique’s encouragement my husband and I are focusing more on our self-care and spending less time and energy hovering over our daughter.
Through Edvique’s guidance and mindfulness art sessions, Chris developed positive tools and creative outlets to cope with life’s trials. We are incredibly thankful to have Edvique as part of our
family.
TAMMY G
CUMMING, GA

If you were to have told me that a couple of years ago I’d be using Art journaling as a form of recovery and healing I wouldn’t have believed it! But meeting Edvique and having her show me her techniques on how to create and use my journal to put down my thoughts and emotions has pushed me further into healing. I’m huge into journaling already but never knew that using paint, charcoal and everyday materials would allow me to express what I often cannot articulate on my own! My art journal is a place I can be a “kid” again feeling free to create outside of the box! No expectations, no end results..just me creating. So very grateful for learning this art form!
SHELBY SHIRHALL
CUMMING, GA

“Edvique's gentle, non-judgmental guidance has been instrumental in the progress I have seen in my life over the last three years. I was drawn to her because of her sense of humor, authenticity, and creative sparkle. She has a zest for living that is infectious and a spirit that inspires me to never give up on myself. Like a friend, she walks beside me, but as a life coach, she shares experience, strength, and hope from the struggles she has already overcome. Based on a variety of training and expertise, she has a wide range of practical strategies to draw on. Recently, she facilitated a vision board party, where all participants were encouraged to be intentional about the coming year. With our scissors and glue, we made posters to help us visualize the desires we had for our lives. Already I have seen positive, tangible outcomes from that project. With the principals of Feng Shui, she has helped me bring more order and intention to my home. At a time when my faith has been shaken by difficult life events, Edvique has been a flicker of light---and sometimes colorful, fun fireworks---reminding me of my Higher Power's care and love.”
BECKY T
SILVER SPRINGS, MA
