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Thursday - Story/Testimony
Drawing from healing journey experience from my own perspective or through ancestors stories. Possible reflections on resilience.


Contemplation: A Pillar of Resilience That Brings Many Benefits…
In the quiet moments, when the world slows down and the noise fades, I find myself drawn to contemplation. It is a gentle refuge, a soft place where resilience begins to take root. When health hardships weigh heavily, contemplation offers a way to breathe, to feel, and to heal. It is not just a pause but a profound act of nurturing the soul. It is something that I have found has been inherited from some special women that have come before me. Contemplation is more than just t

Lisa Raie
5 days ago4 min read


The Practices That Keep the Lamp Lit
You may or may not have seen my “Word of The Year” blog! That of course announced my word of the year as “lamp” . Here it is now, in case you missed it https://www.studiokreat.com/post/2026-with-the-lamp This week I wanted to share is a quiet misunderstanding about light ~ that it must be bright to be meaningful, or dramatic to be real. But a lamp teaches otherwise. A lamp is not sustained by intensity. It is sustained by practice. This year, as I learn to live and work by la

Lisa Raie
Jan 153 min read


I Am Being Led
“…these red dirt roads are not where faith is tested, but where faith is taught.”

Lisa Raie
Dec 18, 20251 min read


The Faith I Inherited
“…faith doesn’t always arrive as certainty, sometimes it arrives as inheritance…”

Lisa Raie
Dec 11, 20252 min read


Slowly Becoming….
I have such big plans for Studio Kre’at and so it is that I am letting December be slow and intentional allowing me to make room for what has been and what will become. And so I sit and reflect, I see how this year has taught me to rest ~ not in what I cannot do, but in what I have been given to do. To bring hope. To carry light. I invite you to sit now with me on my back lawn as the whispers of 2025 and 2026 have found me.

Lisa Raie
Dec 4, 20251 min read


The Wisdom of Vocation
It’s the moments on waking this morning, that have me back in the journal. And after a number of days off, simply to go inwards in a deeper way ~ I know that I am not a content machine. I am a woman simply listening for light. That knowledge allows me wisdom on a grander scale and that slower rhythm wandered honours that wisdom of the vocation I have. This slower rhythm does three sacred things all at once: Protects my interior life Keeps this studio visible Prepares hear

Lisa Raie
Nov 27, 20251 min read


Story: Becoming Mother at Eleven – A Letter of Forgiveness to Myself
Today’s journal page opens up my personal story in a letter penned to myself younger eleven year old self with so much love and...

Lisa Raie
Sep 18, 20252 min read
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