TRWSIO: The Story of Healing Through Art and Life
My Mantra
View every situation, good or bad, with the presence of divine love.
The Beginnings of TRWSIO
TRWSIO, meaning “mend” in Welsh, is deeply rooted in my personal healing journey. Its origins trace back to 2019 when I received a runner-up award from the Ceredigion Arts Trail for my exhibition Finding Wabi Sabi in Motherhood.This project revolved around repairing my maternal grandmother’s teapot using kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold.
Under the guidance of an experienced Japanese artist, I learned the traditional kintsugi method, dedicating three hours a week for six months to the slow, meditative process of repairing the teapot. This act of conscious restoration became a profound metaphor for healing. I documented the journey, later creating a short film combining footage and a song inspired by the experience—a fusion of art, memory, and transformation.
Repairing the teapot became a vessel for processing deep-seated traumas, particularly those connected to womanhood, motherhood, and the inherited wounds passed down through generations.
Personal Traumas Interwoven
In 2015, I left an unloving eight-year marriage, taking my six-year-old child with me. Two years later, after the birth of my second child, I underwent life-saving surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, resulting in the loss of a fallopian tube. The physical and emotional pain lingered long after the surgery, I would experience violent painful abdominal pain and be violently sick for six hours or more, and multiple hospital appointments and tests to be told it was inflammation, I could be prescribed pharmaceuticals but I wanted to find a different way, more holistic more natural, this healing journey has been long, it’s not been a quick process at all, no quick fix for me I had to do it the long way, I can say now in hindsight it was worth it..
When my grandmother’s teapot broke in 2018—just a year after the ectopic pregnancy—it became a poignant symbol of my inner fractures. Repairing it was more than an artistic exercise; it was a journey toward self-healing and wholeness.
A Journey Through Community
From 2019 to 2023, I lived with my two daughters and partner on a permaculture smallholding in South West Wales, near my grandmother’s birthplace in Pembrey. This intentional community of seven adults and five children shared responsibilities as directors of the space, working the land, growing food, and supporting one another.
While the experience brought moments of magic—singing around fires, tending the earth, and finding solace in ancient woods—it also posed challenges. Raising a toddler while facing recurrent health issues, hospitalizations, and fatigue tested my resilience. Tensions within the community, particularly with one member, highlighted how unhealed personal traumas could complicate collective living. Ultimately, these difficulties led to our decision to leave in 2023.
Healing the Womb
Ancient wisdom teaches that when women feel safe, sacred, and honoured, their well-being positively impacts society as a whole. Yet, in modern times, this wisdom is often overlooked. Like many women, I have struggled with feelings of depression, rage, and self-hatred, stemming from both personal and collective traumas.
In 2021, I embarked on a nine-week women’s container called Healing the Womb. This transformative journey awakened me to the sacred power of the womb as a source of love and healing. Through energetic, spiritual, mental, and emotional work, I reconnected with this profound centre of creation and restoration, experiencing miraculous healing along the way.
A turning point came in 2022 during meditation when I felt the energy of my third eye awaken. A beam of golden light emerged, and I had a powerful vision of angelic wings—a profound symbol of transformation and divine connection. This journey of somatic healing, emotional release, and inner child restoration has allowed me to heal wounds from this life and past lives, deepening my self-awareness and spiritual growth.
Spiritual Teachings
In 2022, I joined an academy dedicated to daily practices of meditation, journaling, sound chambers, gridwork, and trauma clearing. These teachings have been instrumental in releasing stored trauma from my body, light body, and DNA. This ongoing journey has inspired much of TRWSIO, with images, performances, poems, and drawings emerging organically as part of my healing process.
In 2023, I began writing a funding application to Arts Council Wales, realizing that my grandmother’s teapot and its stories held a powerful message about trauma, healing, and heritage. One such story was how she was caned in school for speaking Welsh—a punishment that silenced the language in our family. She didn’t pass Welsh on to my mother, and I grew up in an English-speaking environment. Yet visiting her in Pembrey and hearing her speak Welsh connected me to a heritage I longed to reclaim.
Repairing her teapot became symbolic of mending these intergenerational cracks—healing the parts of my body and spirit that had fallen out of resonance.
Moving Forward
TRWSIO represents far more than the mending of a teapot. It is a journey of restoring my body, mind, and spirit; reconnecting to my ancestry, and committing to collective healing as part of ushering in a golden age. It serves as a reminder of the sacredness of life and the intricate connection between our bodies, the Earth, and the cosmos.
I plan to weave together my art, spiritual practice, and healing work into inclusive workshops for everyone. My vision is to collaborate with other artists and healers to create a dedicated healing center—a space where creativity and personal transformation can flourish. This centre will be rooted wherever I feel divinely guided to establish it. Currently based in West Wales, I am connecting with like-minded healers and practitioners, and together, we are actively dreaming this vision into existence.