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my website: suzannejoyteune.com This is a video with pieces of my life leading eventually to a new series of paintings, which I am excited about. All the aspects of life weave together making their way into our art and creations and creativity. I said to someone recently, "We are always creating self-portraits around us everywhere we go." which is something I have believed for many years now. I think this idea was new to her from the look on her face, but I have always operated from this place. When we begin with creating the world we want inside ourselves, that is what we see forming around us. We are all a work in progress and I am learning more and more about this Mystery every day. Wado (Thank you in Cherokee) for watching. I am on Native Land. (Cherokee Land more specifically)

This is a puppet show about healing ancestral trauma. I took a class on family art therapy at Southwestern College (Santa Fe, NM) where we studied the book, It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Woylnn. https://markwolynn.com/it-didnt-start-with-you/ Here's what Mark writes about it on his website: "It Didn’t Start With You shows how the traumas of our parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents can live in our unexplained depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, obsessive thoughts and physical symptoms—what scientists are now calling “secondary PTSD.” Documenting the latest epigenetic research—how traumatic memories are transmitted through chemical changes in DNA—and the latest advances in neuroscience and the science of language, It Didn’t Start With You is an accessible and pragmatic guide to breaking inherited family patterns." Our assignment was to create a creative family genogram in whatever way we wanted to. A genogram is a graphic representation of a family tree that displays detailed data on relationships among individuals. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to analyze hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. I made puppets and wrote out a script using the ceremony ideas that Mark suggests in his book and my classmates and I all participated in a puppet show together using my puppets and the script I wrote. I want to make a point here that is important. Even though we worked with this book by Mark Wolynn and his exercises in this class, he is by no means the first to come up with these ideas. Obviously, honoring our ancestors is imbedded in indigenous people's practices and has been since pre-history. I just think that's an important point since giving a white man credit for "discovering" something that indigenous people have known for thousands of years is so common in western culture. This is not a comment against white men of course. There are lots of good white men. It's just a big blind spot in western culture that we need to look at and become aware of. The Daily Rally interview link is: https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/daily-rally-podcast-suzanne-teune/ Enjoy! My website: suzannejoyteune.com

This video is a conglomeration of some of the recent events in my life including waterfall pool skinny dipping, cleaning out an old shed to use as a new studio, rescuing a turtle from becoming road kill, and going for a beautiful evening walk. Samantha's website: thespiralpath.love music: Passing Away by Hammock God Send Us a Signal by Hammock Disappear Like the Morning by Hammock Healing Song: (Nahko and Medicine for the People) my website: suzannejoyteune.com

I grew up with a verbally abusive father and a very dysfunctional family and I had severe anxiety for many years. There is a book I used to read a lot called "God Calling", which is a channelled book. In it, there is a passage that says to repeat to yourself, "All is well." over and over again until it draws out all of the anxiety like drawing out poison. I did this all the time in those days, "All is well", "All is well." I don't have anxiety anymore, but I still hold this phrase in my heart. I know that a lot of us deal with anxiety. For those out there who do, you can live in peace. It is possible. I believe that living in peace is a revolutionary act. It is very hard to manipulate people who are at peace. All is well. music: Take a Drink From My Hands by Hammock Passing Away by Hammock my website: suzannejoyteune.com

This is a short video of me sharing a little about a painting I made back in 2017 of my friend Amber and her baby Clover. Enjoy!

This is just me experimenting with a photoshoot in the rain the other day out at Roan Mountain in North Carolina. (Cherokee land). Enjoy!

I'm going to make a commitment to make a video once a week from now on because I want to and for the journey of my art and to share about healing. These are things I want to do. Right now, the portal is small, but it's there. I will feed it and it will continue to grow and blossom and become beautiful. Everything is connected and feeds into this. I hope you enjoy this video. It's a little bit of visual and a little bit of talking and it's experimental. I think honesty and vulnerability is so beautiful and healing and moving, so I'm going to try and incorporate that into each video. Songs: Ease Your Sorrow by Hannah Kaminer All of Your Children are Addicts by Hammock This Kind of Life Keeps Breaking Your Heart by Hammock My info links: suzannejoyteune.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzannejoyteune/ Blog: https://suzannejoyteune.blogspot.com

I really love this book: Project 562; Changing The Way We See Native America and I wanted to feature it here. I love what Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip) has done with her photography. I feel that it is important that we all learn directly about Native Americans from them and not from books written about them by non-native people. I also want to promote the podcast that Matika does with Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation). I have learned so much from it. their website is: allmyrelationspodcast.com Project 562's website is: project562.com My website is: suzannejoyteune.com

Hello! I went up to Tennent Mountain, which if you're in the western North Carolina area, you'll know that it is one of the most beautiful hikes on the Art Loeb Trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I love it up there and I have special memories there. It is where I first started reading the book, "Black Elk Speaks", sitting on those rocks looking out at the beautiful fields of blue ridges. This video is not specifically about my art, but that's okay. Everything is connected and feeds into my creativity and what inspires me and that is the point of the vlog, I think, at least in part. My website is: suzannejoyteune.com enjoy.

This video is about my trip I recently took to retrieve my paintings, which have been stored in a gallery in a little town called Thomas in West Virginia. I had a show there right before I was beginning graduate school for art therapy over 3 years ago. The gallery was then called, "Lamplight", but it has since changed its name to "Bloom". I am experimenting with making videos and I really like it. I'm new at it but I'm getting better as I learn the ins and outs of video editing. I hope you enjoy. My paintings and prints are now for sale in downtown Asheville at a used bookstore called "Downtown Books and News". I have had prints for sale there for 5 years and I am so grateful for that relationship. Now there are two framed prints for sale there. Go check it out! The music in this video is: Oh, Sweet Home by Hannah Kaminer and Party Talk by Craft Spells. There were so many beautiful and talented artists I am blessed to be friends with and got to see during this trip. The print I bought was made by Seth, who lives in Thomas, WV and owns the store, Creature. His website is: theartofseth.com Nellie Rose Textiles is my friend Nellie's business. Her website is: nellierosetextiles.com Bloom is at: thosewhobloom.com Downtown Books and News, where my work is, is on Lexington street in downtown Asheville and their website is: dbnbooks.com And my website is: suzannejoyteune.com stay tuned.

This is my first attempt at making a process video. Usually I make large scale paintings on fabric, but recently I made this smaller painting on watercolor paper and I decided to document it. I also talk a little about my journey and life and process leading up to this painting. I hope that part is not too boring. I'm going to keep making videos of the process of all my paintings. Thanks for watching! enjoy! Love, Suzy. suzannejoyteune.com Songs: Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow by Hammock Honor the Earth by Nahko and Medicine for the People 05 Dearg/Red by Solomon Grey Mentions: Curam by Chelsea Call: https://curamcounsel.com/ Southwestern College: https://www.swc.edu/ Melanie Lan: https://www.melanielan.com/ Stella Maria Baer: https://www.stellamariabaer.com/ Case for Making watercolor shop: https://www.caseformaking.com/ L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts: https://www.ldbabrooklyn.com/ Mini Falls Farm: https://www.minifallsfarm.com/