Maria Gehrke | Art as a Portal to Your Vision ✨
@livelovemaria.bsky.social
I create art as a sacred anchor, helping visionaries stay connected to their purpose, energy, and expansion. I weave mindfulness, transformation, visual storytelling, and individual and collective dreams into tangible form.
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A painting can be more than paint. It can be a portal, a map, a mirror.
Part 3 of The Art of Soul Mapping shares how Josh’s journey became a final painting — a living anchor for his path ahead.
#soulmapping #intuitiveart #visionarypath #sacredportals
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Part 3 of The Art of Soul Mapping shares how Josh’s journey became a final painting — a living anchor for his path ahead.
#soulmapping #intuitiveart #visionarypath #sacredportals
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The Art of Soul Mapping, Part 3 of 3: The Final Painting
When vision becomes a living portal into wholeness, woven from vision and journey.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A painting can be more than paint. It can be a portal, a map, a mirror.
Part 3 of The Art of Soul Mapping shares how Josh’s journey became a final painting — a living anchor for his path ahead.
#soulmapping #intuitiveart #visionarypath #sacredportals
open.substack.com/pub/livelove...
Part 3 of The Art of Soul Mapping shares how Josh’s journey became a final painting — a living anchor for his path ahead.
#soulmapping #intuitiveart #visionarypath #sacredportals
open.substack.com/pub/livelove...
In the past weeks, life pressed in: the nearing end of my role, a flooded basement, and the goodbye to Peanut. Each carried its sting—yet each a doorway.
What I discovered: grief is love with nowhere to go. And when love finds a place, it becomes fuel.
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What I discovered: grief is love with nowhere to go. And when love finds a place, it becomes fuel.
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The Ache and the Opening
How grief becomes love, and love becomes fuel for vision
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September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the past weeks, life pressed in: the nearing end of my role, a flooded basement, and the goodbye to Peanut. Each carried its sting—yet each a doorway.
What I discovered: grief is love with nowhere to go. And when love finds a place, it becomes fuel.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/the-ache-a...
What I discovered: grief is love with nowhere to go. And when love finds a place, it becomes fuel.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/the-ache-a...
What happens after a soul vision arrives?
In Part 2 of Josh’s journey through the Embodied Vision Portal, I share how the integration phase began to evolve, shaped by real-time listening, slow art, and the rhythms of becoming.
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In Part 2 of Josh’s journey through the Embodied Vision Portal, I share how the integration phase began to evolve, shaped by real-time listening, slow art, and the rhythms of becoming.
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The Art of Soul Mapping – Part 2 of 3
Reweaving the Journey: Listening to the Vision After It Speaks
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July 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What happens after a soul vision arrives?
In Part 2 of Josh’s journey through the Embodied Vision Portal, I share how the integration phase began to evolve, shaped by real-time listening, slow art, and the rhythms of becoming.
open.substack.com/pub/livelove...
In Part 2 of Josh’s journey through the Embodied Vision Portal, I share how the integration phase began to evolve, shaped by real-time listening, slow art, and the rhythms of becoming.
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There is a map that lives inside you— not made of roads or rules, but of longings, whispers, and the shimmer of memory. It unfolds in the stillness, inked in soul-language, only the quiet heart can read.
July 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
There is a map that lives inside you— not made of roads or rules, but of longings, whispers, and the shimmer of memory. It unfolds in the stillness, inked in soul-language, only the quiet heart can read.
You can know your vision is important.
You can even believe in it.
And still... it might not feel whole.
Not yet.
This post is for those carrying something sacred that hasn’t quite landed—not more clarity, but for a felt, anchored YES from the soul.
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You can even believe in it.
And still... it might not feel whole.
Not yet.
This post is for those carrying something sacred that hasn’t quite landed—not more clarity, but for a felt, anchored YES from the soul.
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Translating the Invisible
How symbolic witnessing, intuitive art, and presence turn vision into something you can finally trust
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July 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You can know your vision is important.
You can even believe in it.
And still... it might not feel whole.
Not yet.
This post is for those carrying something sacred that hasn’t quite landed—not more clarity, but for a felt, anchored YES from the soul.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/translatin...
You can even believe in it.
And still... it might not feel whole.
Not yet.
This post is for those carrying something sacred that hasn’t quite landed—not more clarity, but for a felt, anchored YES from the soul.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/translatin...
Reposted by Maria Gehrke | Art as a Portal to Your Vision ✨
Every "solarpunk age echnology" innovation always just turns out to be "This has been used by indengeous societies for 5,000 years, and its how they built the Hagia Sophia"
July 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Every "solarpunk age echnology" innovation always just turns out to be "This has been used by indengeous societies for 5,000 years, and its how they built the Hagia Sophia"
There’s a particular kind of ache…
When you see a vision so clearly—how we could live, work, create—and yet no one else seems to feel it as deeply.
Read it when your spirit needs to remember:
You were never meant to hold it alone. 🕯️
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When you see a vision so clearly—how we could live, work, create—and yet no one else seems to feel it as deeply.
Read it when your spirit needs to remember:
You were never meant to hold it alone. 🕯️
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You Were Never Meant to Hold It Alone
7 Subtle Signs You’re Carrying the Vision Alone—and the Soul Work That Brings It Back to Life
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July 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
There’s a particular kind of ache…
When you see a vision so clearly—how we could live, work, create—and yet no one else seems to feel it as deeply.
Read it when your spirit needs to remember:
You were never meant to hold it alone. 🕯️
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/you-were-n...
When you see a vision so clearly—how we could live, work, create—and yet no one else seems to feel it as deeply.
Read it when your spirit needs to remember:
You were never meant to hold it alone. 🕯️
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/you-were-n...
Don’t just build impact. Weave beauty.
Beauty nourishes the will to keep going, even in the hard seasons.
Beauty nourishes the will to keep going, even in the hard seasons.
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Don’t just build impact. Weave beauty.
Beauty nourishes the will to keep going, even in the hard seasons.
Beauty nourishes the will to keep going, even in the hard seasons.
Did some super secret art today for day 10. 😁You'll see them soon, don't worry.
July 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Did some super secret art today for day 10. 😁You'll see them soon, don't worry.
Day 9 sketch of flowers from my garden turned to a very unusual style for me after the help of my child 😁 I love it.
July 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Day 9 sketch of flowers from my garden turned to a very unusual style for me after the help of my child 😁 I love it.
Day 8 sketch: I call "Opening the Vision Portal" and painted it for my most recent post on Substack.
July 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Day 8 sketch: I call "Opening the Vision Portal" and painted it for my most recent post on Substack.
What if the fire in your chest was more than a spark? What if it were a portal to everything waiting to be born through you? This is Part 1 of 3 about the Embodied Vision Portal Experiences I create.
Come closer. Sit with the vision inside you.
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Come closer. Sit with the vision inside you.
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The Art of Soul Mapping – Part 1 of 3
Journeying with Josh through a vision portal where inner clarity unfolds into collective healing and the quiet work of his becoming takes shape in light and symbol.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What if the fire in your chest was more than a spark? What if it were a portal to everything waiting to be born through you? This is Part 1 of 3 about the Embodied Vision Portal Experiences I create.
Come closer. Sit with the vision inside you.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
Come closer. Sit with the vision inside you.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
Yesterday was family day again. But here is my sketch for day 7.
I cut some lavender to dry and had to paint it.
I cut some lavender to dry and had to paint it.
July 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Yesterday was family day again. But here is my sketch for day 7.
I cut some lavender to dry and had to paint it.
I cut some lavender to dry and had to paint it.
Day 5 sketch. A loose summer landscape.
July 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Day 5 sketch. A loose summer landscape.
Team alignment is not a memo.
It’s a current. A rhythm. A shared breath. A circle, not a silo.
When did your team last pause to listen—not just to each other, but to the soul of the work?
It’s a current. A rhythm. A shared breath. A circle, not a silo.
When did your team last pause to listen—not just to each other, but to the soul of the work?
July 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Team alignment is not a memo.
It’s a current. A rhythm. A shared breath. A circle, not a silo.
When did your team last pause to listen—not just to each other, but to the soul of the work?
It’s a current. A rhythm. A shared breath. A circle, not a silo.
When did your team last pause to listen—not just to each other, but to the soul of the work?
Day 2 of daily art sessions. A little watercolor sketch of lavendar and butterflies.
July 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Day 2 of daily art sessions. A little watercolor sketch of lavendar and butterflies.
I have been painting on a very ad-hoc schedule whenever a project came up, or I am writing for my newsletter.
I have gotten away from a daily art practice.
For this month, I am recommitting to a daily art session - even if it's just a short one.
Here is the sketch from yesterday:
I have gotten away from a daily art practice.
For this month, I am recommitting to a daily art session - even if it's just a short one.
Here is the sketch from yesterday:
July 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I have been painting on a very ad-hoc schedule whenever a project came up, or I am writing for my newsletter.
I have gotten away from a daily art practice.
For this month, I am recommitting to a daily art session - even if it's just a short one.
Here is the sketch from yesterday:
I have gotten away from a daily art practice.
For this month, I am recommitting to a daily art session - even if it's just a short one.
Here is the sketch from yesterday:
Why I believe art and ritual aren’t “extra” in regenerative work. They are infrastructure - soul scaffolding.
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#regenerativeleadership #artasactivism #somaticstrategy #ritualasresistance #teamculture #livelovemaria
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#regenerativeleadership #artasactivism #somaticstrategy #ritualasresistance #teamculture #livelovemaria
Art and Ritual as Strategic Infrastructure
Building the Invisible Foundations of Trust and Vision
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July 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Why I believe art and ritual aren’t “extra” in regenerative work. They are infrastructure - soul scaffolding.
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#regenerativeleadership #artasactivism #somaticstrategy #ritualasresistance #teamculture #livelovemaria
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#regenerativeleadership #artasactivism #somaticstrategy #ritualasresistance #teamculture #livelovemaria
We talk about regenerative missions—but too often, we carry old patterns into new containers.
What does it mean to embody regeneration from the inside out—through culture, leadership, process, and presence?
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What does it mean to embody regeneration from the inside out—through culture, leadership, process, and presence?
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Regeneration Starts Within
Why Your Mission Needs Regenerative Culture, Leadership, and Process
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June 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We talk about regenerative missions—but too often, we carry old patterns into new containers.
What does it mean to embody regeneration from the inside out—through culture, leadership, process, and presence?
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/regenerati...
What does it mean to embody regeneration from the inside out—through culture, leadership, process, and presence?
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/regenerati...
This is an invitation to experience what it’s like to have your session mirrored back to you through the quiet art of visual scribing. Not disruptive. Just… meaningful.
Step into the soul beneath the words.
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#visualscribing #sacredgatherings #artofpresence
Step into the soul beneath the words.
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#visualscribing #sacredgatherings #artofpresence
The Beauty Beneath the Words
How live visual scribing mirrors the soul of your session — quietly, intuitively, and in real time.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is an invitation to experience what it’s like to have your session mirrored back to you through the quiet art of visual scribing. Not disruptive. Just… meaningful.
Step into the soul beneath the words.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/the-beauty...
#visualscribing #sacredgatherings #artofpresence
Step into the soul beneath the words.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/the-beauty...
#visualscribing #sacredgatherings #artofpresence
What if the future begins not with what we want to stop, but with what we dare to imagine?
Weaving gentle parenting, solarpunk dreaming, and the “pink elephant” problem to explore why envisioning what we do want is the most radical step we can take.
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Weaving gentle parenting, solarpunk dreaming, and the “pink elephant” problem to explore why envisioning what we do want is the most radical step we can take.
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What We Cannot Envision, We Cannot Build
The Pink Elephant Problem and the Power of Solarpunk Imagination
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June 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What if the future begins not with what we want to stop, but with what we dare to imagine?
Weaving gentle parenting, solarpunk dreaming, and the “pink elephant” problem to explore why envisioning what we do want is the most radical step we can take.
open.substack.com/pub/livelove...
Weaving gentle parenting, solarpunk dreaming, and the “pink elephant” problem to explore why envisioning what we do want is the most radical step we can take.
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What if every voice in the room held a thread of the magic?
If you’ve ever sensed that the real transformation happens between us, this is for you.
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If you’ve ever sensed that the real transformation happens between us, this is for you.
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When Everyone is a Facilitator
Unlocking the Power of Collective Magic
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June 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What if every voice in the room held a thread of the magic?
If you’ve ever sensed that the real transformation happens between us, this is for you.
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If you’ve ever sensed that the real transformation happens between us, this is for you.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/when-every...
On my gardening journey, I noticed a peculiar pattern - so much so that it led to an inside joke with my husband.
Often after looking up a new plant, this conversation happens:
Me: oh no.
Husband: is it invasive?
Me: yup. But guess what?
Husband: we can eat it?
Me: yes, we can eat it.
Often after looking up a new plant, this conversation happens:
Me: oh no.
Husband: is it invasive?
Me: yup. But guess what?
Husband: we can eat it?
Me: yes, we can eat it.
June 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On my gardening journey, I noticed a peculiar pattern - so much so that it led to an inside joke with my husband.
Often after looking up a new plant, this conversation happens:
Me: oh no.
Husband: is it invasive?
Me: yup. But guess what?
Husband: we can eat it?
Me: yes, we can eat it.
Often after looking up a new plant, this conversation happens:
Me: oh no.
Husband: is it invasive?
Me: yup. But guess what?
Husband: we can eat it?
Me: yes, we can eat it.
When I’m not guiding people through their inner landscapes, I still paint—one-of-a-kind artworks that are companions to my own journey—and I wanted to offer you a little window into what lives in my shop now.
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#mindfulart #natureinspiredart #livelovemaria
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#mindfulart #natureinspiredart #livelovemaria
Where Light Lingers: A Shop Update from the Studio
A gentle invitation to explore the original paintings, prints, and small treasures nestled in my art shop.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
When I’m not guiding people through their inner landscapes, I still paint—one-of-a-kind artworks that are companions to my own journey—and I wanted to offer you a little window into what lives in my shop now.
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/where-ligh...
#mindfulart #natureinspiredart #livelovemaria
livelovemaria.substack.com/p/where-ligh...
#mindfulart #natureinspiredart #livelovemaria
We are already connected to the divine.
We always have been.
We just forgot.
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We always have been.
We just forgot.
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What is the divine, if not the thread that holds all things together, seen and unseen?
Maria Gehrke | Issue 002: The Sacred Thread That Binds | May 31st, 2025
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June 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We are already connected to the divine.
We always have been.
We just forgot.
sacredbusinesscollective.com/p/what-is-th...
We always have been.
We just forgot.
sacredbusinesscollective.com/p/what-is-th...