Expressing the Inexpressible: The Art of Healing with Devorah Brinckerhoff

Angela interviews professional artist Devorah Brinkerhoff, who created “Soul Portraits,” a mixed-media healing practice using personal materials like letters, photographs, journal pages, and legal documents to transform trauma and release old stories. Devorah describes how creativity is often dismissed in Western achievement culture, yet drawing and painting helped her self-connect, self-witness, and survive when words and even therapy couldn’t fully hold her experience. She shares how family conflict, lawsuits, and efforts to protect her children from sexual abuse led her to intuitively rip, reassemble, and paint over painful documents, creating relief and a sense of reclaiming herself. Devorah explains how her process supports grief, shame, and fear gently and at one’s own pace, and offers commissions, courses, workshops, and upcoming smaller, more accessible mini commissions via social media.https://www.soulportrait.art/https://www.facebook.com/devorahbrinckerhoff/https://instagram.com/devorahbrinckerhoffhttps://www.tiktok.com/@soulportrait.art