The Healing Doll Way
A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls
for Self-Discovery, Awareness, and Transformation
for Self-Discovery, Awareness, and Transformation
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The Healing Doll Way
A Creative Return to Yourself There comes a season in a woman’s life — often beginning in midlife — when the roles that once shaped her life begin to loosen and change. The identities she carried so faithfully start to feel too small, too tight, or incomplete. What once felt certain now asks to be reimagined. At the same time, her body may be changing. Rhythms shift. Energy rises and falls. The face in the mirror carries more story than before. “I feel like I’m unlearning who I thought I had to be — and discovering who I truly am.” — Student It can be disorienting,even unsettling. Yet beneath the confusion, something deeply grounded is a strength that has been there all along her intuition. Steady. Persistent. Clear. Rising from the body, from bone, breath, and lived experience. Years of loving, surviving, creating, and enduring have carried this wisdom. Creativity as a Path Home Making art and healing dolls becomes a creative pathway that gives shape to what words cannot hold. Through healing dolls, women:
The Healing Doll Way Experience Through online classes and the award-winning book, women create three-dimensional healing dolls — art forms that hold their stories, wounds, strength, and becoming. “Creating my doll gave me permission to honor the parts of myself I had set aside for decades.” This is not about crafting decoration, it is about crafting meaning, reclaiming silenced parts of yourself and transforming pain into presence. Inside The Healing Doll Way:
You Are Not Too Late After decades of caring for others, achieving, adapting, and enduring, many women feel a quiet stirring: “There must be more.” The Healing Doll Way honors this sacred threshold. It is not too late to create. It is not too late to heal. It is not too late to become more fully yourself. If something in you feels called — even softly --you are invited. |
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Making healing dolls and art can guide you in connecting with yourself and your life. You experience more balance, internal strength, joy, meaning, peace, emotional connection, and empowerment. Making healing dolls invites a deeper connection to your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. |
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Book Reviews
I have pulled your book out one more time - and tried to get the courage to work with it. I'm an astrologer interested in the great turning where for the first time in over 2000 years Uranus/Saturn conjunction went from a earth sign to a fire sign and all the implications that means for society. I'm feeling the need for these dolls as I search through collective rage and impotence. During the 1980s I worked for the IRS processing farm forms of the farm crisis and watched a whole group of people lose power and voice, I was active in the housing collapse of 2008 and watched black people lose 46% of their collective wealth, as a wife I learned the fear of the Tuskegee experiment. I'm not an unimaginative or weak person. I feel what you are offering will help me to help better the world with a deep sense of commitment that I feel (being a Nazarene and you can go to heaven on good works (sometimes). I just want to thank you for all the hard work you have put into helping women find the voice they need to have to speak.
Thank you
Linda Heffern (Springfield, MO)
Love this book! I love making dolls for myself but was feeling like a crazy old doll lady. This book helped reframe my efforts as "therapy." Everyone needs a little therapy, right? Last winter, I spent many enjoyable weeks making a Guardian doll. This year I will tackle the Scapegoat, or Shadow doll. The author gives lots of examples in beautiful color illustrations by a variety of contributors. The text is clear and thought-provoking. She doesn't give instructions for specific dolls. Rather, she presents an archetype and has you design your own doll, according to your own skills and your own psychology. Brilliant!
The Healing Doll Way is a treasure. The illustrations alone are beautiful and inspiring. But Barb’s offering is beyond the visual. I’ve been blessed to have Barb mentor me through the healing process detailed in this book. If you’re seeking to explore your inner terrain, to gain insight or to transform some part of your life, look no further. Dive into these pages and let Barb’s gentle and enlightening guidance lead you forward.
Anne R. Heck, Author of Finding the Gift: A Memoir of Rape, Intention and Miracles
"Beautiful, amazing, inspiring
This book was long overdue. So many books have been written about the benefits of healing arts but for me this one is outstanding because it explains in an incredibly good structure how one can overcome struggles in life through creating healing dolls. For me as a therapist for transformative therapy using art and as a sculptor this is the perfect book to have. I have been in touch with the author who is a very inspiring woman, you can feel that she authored the book with love, wisdom, and passion. It is an excellent book for women who want to transform their life, find purpose, heal themselves and their environment but also for therapists.
The images are wonderful and the list of questions at the end of every chapter adds a practical element. Absolutely recommend, a definite buy-IN HARD COPY!
Michaela Cordes, United Kingdom
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Thank you
Linda Heffern (Springfield, MO)
Love this book! I love making dolls for myself but was feeling like a crazy old doll lady. This book helped reframe my efforts as "therapy." Everyone needs a little therapy, right? Last winter, I spent many enjoyable weeks making a Guardian doll. This year I will tackle the Scapegoat, or Shadow doll. The author gives lots of examples in beautiful color illustrations by a variety of contributors. The text is clear and thought-provoking. She doesn't give instructions for specific dolls. Rather, she presents an archetype and has you design your own doll, according to your own skills and your own psychology. Brilliant!
The Healing Doll Way is a treasure. The illustrations alone are beautiful and inspiring. But Barb’s offering is beyond the visual. I’ve been blessed to have Barb mentor me through the healing process detailed in this book. If you’re seeking to explore your inner terrain, to gain insight or to transform some part of your life, look no further. Dive into these pages and let Barb’s gentle and enlightening guidance lead you forward.
Anne R. Heck, Author of Finding the Gift: A Memoir of Rape, Intention and Miracles
"Beautiful, amazing, inspiring
This book was long overdue. So many books have been written about the benefits of healing arts but for me this one is outstanding because it explains in an incredibly good structure how one can overcome struggles in life through creating healing dolls. For me as a therapist for transformative therapy using art and as a sculptor this is the perfect book to have. I have been in touch with the author who is a very inspiring woman, you can feel that she authored the book with love, wisdom, and passion. It is an excellent book for women who want to transform their life, find purpose, heal themselves and their environment but also for therapists.
The images are wonderful and the list of questions at the end of every chapter adds a practical element. Absolutely recommend, a definite buy-IN HARD COPY!
Michaela Cordes, United Kingdom
Read More Reviews HERE