Sandra M SkinnerAs a storyteller and an artist of words and image, Sandy has spent all of her life she can remember creating in some form or other. Creation and creative process flow easily from her, allowing challenging or simple conversation to emerge without a wod spoken or thought. Big ideas can appear in lines, shapes and colours for her, as easily as a poetic line or pages of prose. Her creations allow her to listen to her voice and know deeply who she is and what she knows. Sandy lives what she considers an ordinary life in Australia. She talks with people who do the same. For a long period of her life she tried to walk the road between being herself at work and understanding that she wasn't the one they wanted. Work required a certain mask that as time went on, the mask served less to protect her heart and more to complicate its need to be heard. After more than 30 years teaching and living a full life, Sandy experienced post-traumatic stress as a result of work experiences and a life that had added its own versions of sadness. It was actually standing in her truth that 'life is a gift' that allowed her heart to welcome new understandings of old ideas and reshape the framework of her being to be, just be. That is what happens when it's time to leave something that has taken more time than family and other relationships in your life and you realise it isn't the relationship you want any more or can sustain. Read More Read Less