What are your favorite summer memories?
Star-watching. Swimming. Exploring the woods.
Root beer floats. Outdoor music. Fireworks.
Bare feet in the grass. Sun-kissed skin. wind-whipped hair.
Will you bring a bit of that childhood summer magic back with a quest into your imagination?
Can you retreat for a time beyond the mundane, the everyday.
Remember, imagination is only limited by the pockets of time we let it out to roam free, to play.
Play for adults is critical in our stressful go-go-go lives. Play has been shown to release endorphins, improve brain functionality, and stimulate creativity. And it can even help to keep us young and feeling energetic. Studies show that play improves memory and stimulates the growth of the cerebral cortex. ~Wanderlust.com
Your invitation:
Create a door—a portal to the faerie realm. Rectangular or round, hobbit style made from paper, wood, or cardboard with a window and door knob. Play with paint, colored pencils or cut from a magazine or our template below! Tape it to your journal cover, or a page inside. Then make another, for your bathroom mirror or dresser drawer. Be easy and just start. Remember, creativity is magnetic. Follow your impulse. If you can, we highly recommend you paint a door in the knot of a tree in your yard. Add a doorknob and sign, perhaps a ladder or stone pathway. The visual thrill and vibrational lift of a portal sighting will transport you to happier realities.
These are two way portals—a reminder to stay open to possibilities and the muses, to visit you! A declaration that you are open to inspiration!
One of the things that may often stop us from playing is that we, as adults, get very set on who we are and the types of activities that we do and do not like. But play is healthy and fun, so it benefits us to figuratively—or literally—roll the dice and allow play back into our lives.
~Wanderlust.com
Perhaps your adult rational mind is ready to dismiss this whole article as silly. Are the enemies to your creativity demanding that you stay in your comfort zone, avoid risks, and convince you that you just aren’t creative anyway? The very first way that creativity can be accessed is through PLAY!
An excerpt from Pam Gout’s Art & Soul Re-loaded addresses our barriers to creative practice:
Enemy #1—Procrastination. When you first commit to working on your art, you will hear a tiny voice. Or at least you’ll think you did. Or you did until the appointed hour arrives. And then it’s, What was I thinking? I want to be an artist, but not today. Probably tomorrow. And then you go on living the same life you’ve been living before, the same life from which you want to escape.
Enemy #2—Resistance. Change is uncomfortable. Especially something this risky. Every artist is on the tightwire. No longer cowering. No longer hiding.
Enemy #3—Self-doubt. You’ll hate everything you produce. You’ll look at whatever it is and think, “This is pure drivel. I’d be wise to stop.”
Perhaps it isn’t too risky to those enemies to simply color some pictures and allow yourself a little creative retreat?
Click to download a PDF of the PixiePortals
Will you start now? Will you take just 5 minutes and any supplies within sight to make your first portal?

Stephanie Foley
curious. imaginative. creative. magical.“What looks like play from the surface is really a much deeper journey into nature and ourselves.”
Aficionado of Imaginative Souls – Advocate of Unlimited Possibilities – Amusing Muse








My friends affectionately call me “the Healer on a Harley”. The open road is where I am FREE. Riding my motorcycle is when I feel the most alive, empowered and connected to Spirit. It wasn’t always this way for me though.
As an empath, I struggled with low self-esteem, depression and anxiety for most of my adult life. When I found essential oils I fell in love with how these tiny bottles could help me get through the day and I could use them to create how I wanted to feel. I became a Young Living Distributor and got curious about other ways to support my highly sensitive self.
I began learning how to create healthy loving boundaries, trust my intuition, and channel healing energy. Over the years I’ve studied with The Radiant Heart School, Akashic Knowing School of Wisdom, Hands on Healing with Echo Bodine and the Profound Power Healing System.
My mission is to show other big hearted, sensitive women who wear the weight of the world on their shoulders how they can master self-care and feel free too. A big part of my personal healing journey has been embracing and using my voice.
When I was a child I was afraid to sing the songs in my heart because I was worried about what other people thought of me. That fear later rippled out into my adult life as I struggled to speak my truth with friends, lovers, and bosses. I started healing this rift when I started singing again in church and later joined a band. I realized that my voice (along with my heart) was my super power and that it helped transform people. I bring my voice into my healing work to create meditations and group experiences that are calming and healing. I’m here to empower others to tune into their truth and speak it from the heart.
Briana graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts and a double minor in both Communications and Ancient Greek Culture from the University of Minnesota. Briana is a freelancer in the production and AD departments for commercial, independent feature/short film, music videos. Briana also works at Ilhan for Congress as a deep canvasser focused on Medicare for All. In her free time, Briana enjoys dance classes, art museums, traveling, cooking (spicy food) and going to see musicals. She serves as Vice-Chair for Minneapolis DFL, on the board of MN Women in Film and TV and is a regular volunteer with Greenpeace.