Debbie Esplin Holistic Coach

We continue the journey through our family of origin stories and meanings with part 4 of the Roots of Self drawing workshops to access insights inside of us.

Saturday, May 2 at 10 AM online we explore the Father Lineage and the gifts, challenges and guidance from that line.

Join me to explore your relationship with your Father's lineage through guided NeuroArt intentional drawing.

Register here: https://www.deborahesplin.com/live-class/father-lineage/register
There will be a replay if you can not make the live event.

Whether you know anything about your father(s) or not, whether you are adopted or not, you can still do this workshop and access the wisdom inside of you.

I love this quote: 'Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.' Attibuted to Mahatma Ghandi.

It is so true. We fully control ourselves but nothing or no one else. Which gives us enormous power to change ourselves and recreate our story, change our emotions, thoughts, actions, understanding, and therefore our inner environment which changes us and then ripples outward and changes our lives.

As our lives change so do our actions, words, and energy. As the way we act in the world, changes we affect those around us and they may change. The ripples keep flowing.

The most powerful thing you can do in your life for yourself and for others is to change what is not working for you, what triggers you, upsets you, and creates issues and struggles for you. You do this by changing yourself which then changes your life, and....

Resistance is often defined as opposition—or a refusal to accept something. In electricity, resistance refers to the force that opposes the flow of energy through a material.

In many ways, this mirrors what happens within us. When we experience resistance, we interrupt our natural flow. The flow of energy in our body, our thoughts, and our emotions becomes restricted. Instead of moving freely, we can begin to feel stuck, rigid, and disconnected—and over time, this can lead to discomfort or suffering.

Resistance is a common challenge. It can affect our well-being, our focus, and our sense of direction, making it harder to create the life we want. It can also show up in our relationships—both personal and professional.
How resistance shows up

Resistance can take many forms, including:

Procrastination and avoidance
Blaming others
Controlling behaviours
Worry, stress, or anxiety
Feeling overwhelmed or paralysed
Difficulty making decisions
Negative self-talk
You may recognize some of these patterns in your own life...

Read more of this blog post on my website: link in bio.

We continue our journey on April 25 exploring the Father Archetype and what does the word Father mean to each person. What was the experience or not? What were the challenges? The gifts? The guidance?

Whether you knew or know your father or not, you can still do this workshop. Having a father or the absence of a father, having an imperfect or perfect father, is a part of your journey in this life and has impacted you in many ways.

Join me to draw and explore your Father Archetype.

Date: April 25, 2026
Time: 10 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT
Location: Online

Register here or go to the link in bio: https://www.deborahesplin.com/courses/mother-father-child

No drawing skill required. We will work with lines, basic shapes and colour.

The Roots of Self series is a journey through our families of origin, the meanings, the challenges, the gifts, the guidance, and the wisdom. In the first four workshops we explore these themes in relation to our mothers, fathers, and lineages on both sides.

In the fifth workshop, we gather the gifts awakened through the workshops and carry them inward, offering them to the younger parts of ourselves still waiting to be seen, held, and supported.

Without needing to return to the past, you create a new relationship—one rooted in presence, compassion, and gentle empowerment to deeply nourish our inner children and our selves.

The series is 6 workshops of exploration to loosen the challenges in us from our family of origin and bring us to a new understanding and appreciation of ourselves.

The journey is ongoing and you can join the series:
* Replay, The Mother Archetype: Resolution and Renewal
* Replay, The Mother Lineage: Gifts, Challenges & Wisdom
* April 25, The Father Archetype: Resolution and Guidance
* May 2, The Father Lineage: Gifts, Challenges & Guidance
* May 11, The Inner Child: Reconnection and Compassion
* May 16, The Soul Mandala: Integration and Wholeness

This work is deeply somatic and it helps us connect with our emotions, thoughts, and inner wisdom for insight, deeper understanding of our internal meaning landscape and change.

Join the series. Join the journey.

Register with this link or go to my bio;
https://www.deborahesplin.com/courses/mother-father-child

There will be a recording for everyone who registers so if you can not make the live workshop you will have the recording with 24 hours.

You will be guided in the reflection and drawing process by a Holistic Coach and Neurographica Specialist.

What is Intentional Drawing? It is a powerful way to connect with your body, your emotions, your thoughts, your needs, your soul to make change. I use reflection, NeuroArt, energy and inner wisdom to guide people through change.

Root into your truth and rise into your fullest expression through the Roots of Self Intentional Drawing journey—a six-part experience designed to gently unravel what no longer serves and nourish what’s ready to grow.

Each workshop guides you deeper into clarity, and balance around your family of origin experiences. If you’re ready to feel grounded, expanded, and alive in your path, this series is your invitation to begin. 🌿

Join Debbie in a safe, gentle space, for a guided 6-part journey to
* Reconnect with your inner self & align with your true path
* Blend of intentional drawing, reflection, & energy practices
* Release old patterns & shift what no longer supports you
* Cultivate clarity, balance, and a stronger sense of purpose
* No artistic experience needed—just openness and curiosity

Deeply explore how your mother and father experiences shaped you in The Roots of Self with the following workshops:
Replay, The Mother Archetype: Resolution & Renewal
Replay, The Mother Lineage: Gifts, Challenges & Wisdom
April 25, The Father Archetype: Resolution & Guidance
May 2, The Father Lineage: Gifts, Challenges & Guidance
May 11, The Inner Child: Reconnection & Compassion
May 16, The Soul Mandala: Integration & Wholeness (an Art of Manifesting ™ method workshop)

Join the entire series (link in bio or register here): https://www.deborahesplin.com/courses/mother-father-child

There will be a recording for everyone who registers so if you can not make the live workshop you will have the recording with 24 hours.

You will be guided in the reflection and drawing process by a Holistic Coach and Neurographica Specialist.

What is Intentional Drawing? It is a powerful way to connect with your body, your emotions, your thoughts, your needs, your soul to make change. I use reflection, NeuroArt, energy and inner wisdom to guide people through change.

This is my drawing from the Mother Archetype workshop.

In this workshop we released the challenging energy of our mothers (blue and white circle) to Mother Earth. Then we brought up supporting energy from Mother Earth to ourselves (yellow tree). Then we added the gifts from our mothers (green circles).

I was surprised to see how many gifts I felt happy to have received from my challenging mother. And I identified one more as I finished the drawing

This may sound strange to talk about a drawing this way but this is what Intentional Drawing is. You start with an intention, a shift you want to make, and then we draw following a process that I guide you through to put that shift on paper. As we draw the shift our eyes see the story growing on the paper, our bodies react, we listen and meanings and emotions shift. Insights come and the story changes.

I love this work. I love guiding this work. ❤️

Today's drawing class; white pencil on toned paper. My subject was a skull.

Once again, as I watched the teacher demonstrate, I felt that I can not do this. Getting the nuances of light, various shadow tones and dark will be so hard.

It was hard, but as I worked, the form started to take shape. With patience, and care over 2 hours as got as far as the last picture you see. Not finished, but solid progress. I am pleased.

I love how this learning is bringing out an artist in me that I did not know was there. I love the feeling of taking something I am looking at and trying to create a representation on paper. The representation will not be identical and that is fine that is not my goal. Creating a representation that is true to the form, the essence and the feeling is what I am trying to do.

Loving this class and loving how it connects me with a deep part of myself, and a deep need in myself, that I was not consciously aware before.

What do you do to feed and grow your soul? ❤️

Here you see the beginning of the drawing and the end after 2 hours. It is not finished but that is as far as I got in 2 hours.

This is my Soul Egg drawing from The Empowerment Circle workshop on April 4 using the Art of Manifesting ™ method by Colette Baron-Reid and Anna Denning. I really enjoyed this one.

The intention of this drawing was to celebrate yourself and see what new beginnings you wanted to bring in.

The qualities I celebrated are commitment, gentleness, and fun. My egg has wings and the bubbles at the top are filled with helium to lift my soul egg in the air.

The triangles are for the energy new beginings. The 4-leaf clovers are for good fortune for me and the universe. The tree is for grounding. The sun is for heat and light. The clouds are for shade and water. There is earth and water at the bottom so I have the 4 elements in this drawing which is important to me. They need to be thanked and celebrated as well.

Pink is for gentleness, yellow is for joy, blue is for love and compassion, green is for the heart space. I love the ribbons of purple and yellow extending from the centre of the soul egg out into the universe.

Every time I do a drawing, a story grows as I work and each time I feel a shift in me. ❤️

I am proud to share that I am now a Certified Teacher of the Art of Manifesting ™ created by Colette Baron-Reid and Anna Denning.

The journey through this method was gentle, full of insight, and fun. This method aligns very well with the Reiki and energy work that is so dear to my heart and soul.

I am already doing workshops with this method in my intentional drawing & energy group called The Empowerment Circle.

Soon, I will be creating classes in this method.

What is different about the Art of Manifesting ™drawing method? For me, all intentional, neuroart drawing is energy work because we are working with intention and we are working to make a change in something. That is what energy work is. However, this method, openly embraces that you are working with energy.
I really resonate with that and I feel so comfortable in that space because it fits with what I have been learning and doing in the field of energy work for 5 years.

Plus, this method also works with the Field of Potential, the Quantum Field, which I have been doing in my intentional drawing for over a year. I also deeply appreciate the orientation of this method to the newer understanding of who we are as humans who are energy, and who exist in a limitless field of potential.

I want to thank Colette Baron-Reid and Anna Denning Art for ther the very interesting and well structured course and for their care and solid teaching of their method.

I am excited and look forward to sharing this method more widely with the world in the near future. 🖌️ ❤️