I suppose there are many ways to regain magic in your life. For me, it came through illness. In 2021 I was diagnosed with cancer — I couldn’t believe it. My world turned upside down, and for a long time nothing made sense.

Until it did.

Shortly after being diagnosed, I started a meditation programme with my dear friend Carmen López ( https://www.carmen-lopez.com).

During my sessions with her, a word kept showing up at the end of the meditations: TRUST!

I needed to learn to trust in life again. Trust in my healing process. Trust in my intuition.

On one particular session with her in the forest, I got the impulse to start drawing in order to get my mind away from the heavy emotions I was confronting. Maybe I could turn the experience I was going through into something creative.

And so I started drawing the little Elves and their healing messages.
I would sit with my 5 year old daughter at the kitchen table, and we would both draw for hours at a time ( something I hadn’t done anymore since I was a child).

It was therapeutic.
It helped me regain trust.

It helped me connect with my intuition.
It helped me to believe in magic again.