Artist * Poet * Educator My bubble burst - one day, when I realized that I was trying to draw connections where there were none. Think about it for a while.
Dear Beloved Creative,
I used to think that if it weren't for the childhood trauma I would have never come in touch with my creativity, or my teaching/healing abilities, or my capacity to question and create love where there was little or none. I assumed that all my diverse creative mediums and the dying need to create in so many different ways is what helped me survive and thrive during grave c
hallenges in my life. You see, we are wired to build stories around our experiences so we can validate what new choices we make and who we are becoming. But, our life events and stories DONT make us who we are. It is our natural instinctive Self that draws relevant events to us and weaves our life stories as we live them. That core, essential self which has its own values, needs and purposes keeps nudging us to say what we say and do what we do, ultimately creating the one story we call "my life". Does this sound like we are at the mercy of this instinctive Self?! Well, here's the good news - this Instinctive Self is a our CREATIVE SELF. This self is very familiar to us as the child that we were born as. All of us are born curious, effortless, playful, joyful, relaxed, fearless, generous, lovable and loving. All of us, without exception were little geniuses. However during the growing up years (integration with the world around) we forget this for a good reason. So that, that which we were born with and took for granted, that which was natural and in the background for us, could one day become a conscious and core part of us - OUR CREATIVE IDENTITY. So one day we would step back and now choose that "Natural Effortless Creative Self". Understand what IT is and how it operates through us. What it wants to bring alive in the world through us and how it plans to keep us safe, happy, fulfilled, and abundant. Stop and write in your journal - what is your relationship with your creativity? Does it help you thrive? Does it bring you answers when you have none? Does it help you stay happy and even joyful when the world around you is collapsing? Does it whisper to you what to say at a board meeting or on a date and that works like a charm? Does it send you dreams of what your next product should be? Does it cuddle up with you and tell you stories when you are lonely? Mine does. And I am proud to say, my creativity has helped me not only survive many grave challenges but also shown me how to thrive with it. It has built a muscle of "aliveness" in me which flexes when times are tough and shows me things for what they are, thus elevating my consciousness, making me kinder and braver and even richer and capable to love more. At 50 I can wholeheartedly declare that -
My True Nature is Creative, Calm, Centered in Service. This revelation is amongst the many I receive, everyday, with my beloved - A Course in Miracles. For decades I did inner work, and spiritual practices thinking I needed to fix that pain, the existential angst, and trauma. Even when, in reality, I had innumerable mystical experiences at every bend, I never stopped to ask if it is I who is creating my life story and not the other way round. This "I" is not the ego "I", hence my small identity could not have figured it out until I was shown that in 2016 the final "wake up" call. The True Self does not need to know itself. My limited, human self had to go through all those challenging, death-defying experiences in order to be exhausted enough to rest in its One True Self, The Creative Self, finally. Until I decided that THERE IS NO OTHER WAY but to Give up and find my OWN sweet way to surrender. It turns out my way to surrender to the Great Intelligence of Life was playful, creative, musical - it was in the space of painting, poetry, theater, dance, and music that I finally SAW THE LIGHT - My own Unique Light which was linked to The ONE Light that loves us all. Its taken me 4 years to find the readiness to meet you where you are and help you too to remember your One True Instinctual Creative Self. I am deeply grateful to my teacher Lisa Natoli and my dear friend
Dola Dasgupta to have walked with me every step of the way. Click the link and reach out. Perhaps you too need just one conversation to make the shift into your One True Nature, which works, which knows how to love you, guide you to a life of joy, peace, and abundance. I Love You! Deepali
11/05/2026
Online Live workshop in Nature to show you the meditative practice of photography with nature.
The lines will blurr and you'll feel real, complete, alive and guided for the greater force.
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Fees 1500/- for 1 5 hour online class in nature and 2 weeks follow up on WA.
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Thankyoi to the 2 children, the principal and the loving staff members who made this possible for us.
24/03/2026
Hush.
Don't tell anybody.
Tee her.
22/03/2026
What happens when your carefully drawn past resurfaces in such depth of articulation . It doesn't even feel like its you anymore.
2002 till 2026.
That evening my house helps alcoholic husband was hospitalised. I took them both in my Seiira car rushed to ER.
He died soon. She was relived.
I just had poetry flow thru me to my utter surprise.
But the night before while drawing this... a crow swept pass my eyes level at the balcony where i had my little corner to draw
The crow had a huge message which entered this expression.
I had no idea what my hands were drawing.
It looks like the life n love in death.
Liberation
27/02/2026
The calligraphy if the elements.
The moment captures itself , draws my attention.
Date - 27th Feb 2026
Place: Pashan Lake, Pune
Artist : Deepali Parmar
No edits
No filters
27/02/2026
What's your urgent and emergent in art is organic,
An old memory of a way of being that sits well within us and around us as well.
It doesn't want us to get rid of it.
On the contrary it creates vitality and a calm awareness.
The other kind of mental or emotional urgency or anxiety is to be compared with.
Working on the cover of my second book.
Do you like it?
❤️💞❤️
17/02/2026
16/02/2026
A photo graph that threatens the boundaries between reality and fiction.
I took this shot an hour back while on my evening walk. (In 2023 Feb)
I'm amazed how the "glimmer" catches hold of me. Surprised myself by the perfect colour balance, depth, mood and capture.
No filters. No edits.
Title: The drama is Lain
Viewer engaged. A shot of dignity sporting peace in the making.
Everyday act of living it out.
19/10/2024
I am closing my facebook accounts, all of them.
Hope to see you in the real world.
Be Well my friends,
Dee
07/05/2024
for Single Parents & C-ptsd Creative - Join the weekly empowerment cohort on how to follow your dreams if you have suffered as a Creative Person with PTSD or c-PTSD or are a single parent with no support.
I have learnt a lot from 40 years of my journey with c-PTSD as a Creative and 15 as a single mother. My commitment is to help those who feel stuck at the wrong end of the bargain.
We meet weekly on zoom from 6:30 to 7:30 pm on Thursdays. We begin with mindfulness practice and share our concerns and wins. We learn and support each other.
I will hold a compassionate space for all of us.
"No struggle is small. No suffering needs to be ashamed of."
Please share with those who may need this.
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03/05/2024
For parents whose children love to draw and paint :
Somebody in a Homeschooling group asked -
Father: "Hi, I'm looking for online art classes that are reasonably priced. Would love to get some recommendations, thank you! Hobby Art Classes probably, it's for my 7-year-old who has a huge interest in art. I'd like to have him enroll somewhere, which will him build foundational skills in different techniques."
Me: In hobby art classes there will be NO foundational or any other development possible. In fact the child will be further confused and go away from his natural drive/voice/ creative force.
If at 7 your child is showing exceptional attraction, talent or natural flair for drawing, painting then consider that you may have a gifted child at hand.
They need very different kind of nurturance.
Father:What would you suggest for a child starting out?
Me : I am glad you asked - It may be an in-depth reply but that's the only way I know.
So at 7, a child is at the stage where he/she has had "enough experience" of the world/environment they are born in.
Now they take to "expression" by drawing, writing, talking sports or whatever means they begin to fixate on a few mediums.
Here's the part you may find hard to believe - a healthy well nurtured child will usually fixate only on ONE medium, one style or tool of expression AT A TIME. Once they exhaust that "idea" or inspired state of being they may move to another medium or subject al together.
When people see a child doing a range of different expressions/mediums or indulging in many subjects at a time (which is the school environment) and praise the versatility of the child is actually a demonstration of a distracted mind...calling out for help.
SO - at 7 a child needs to be allowed full space of self-expression because they are FIGURING out and LIterally crafting their identity by TRYING out different ways of being in the SAFE SPACE of art expression.
Why Art? Because unlike other subjects like maths, history, sports etc Art does NOT hold a set standard a child has to reach.
Most parents and even educators have NO idea about the real potential of ART SPACE and leave the child to "have a good time" without intervening.
While to some extent that is a good thing for the child, however a parent/educator's role is to VALIDATE this engagement and approve of its importance.
All I find them saying is "Wow, that's a nice painting". That does more damage at this age.
Why? Again... if you enter the child's world and experience what he/she is experiencing you may notice that they are NOT so much focused on WHAT they are painting but on HOW that process is making them feel.
Also, this is the ONLY age when a child has access to the full range of imagination and their relationship with the imagination needs to be built fully. This relationship creates the "idea of the world" which is way more useful to them/us throughout life than the many million and often warped versions of reality we keep dishing them.
So you see that children go through a lot of mental health and adjustment issues soon after BECAUSE primarily they were not allowed to build a healthy enough relationship with themselves, their "idea" of what the world around them is and the strategies they would build to navigate it.
So at age 7, once again the teacher/parent/care-giver has to be able to enter the child's world and join this journey of co-regulation, exploration and expression in a way that is genuine and real.
Show me how many families have a separate drawing table to respect a childs interest and love for the art?
Whereas if the child showed a little interest in maths etc- 10 tutors will be hired.
My point is that Arts affords the KEY, EXISTENTIAL learning which KEEPS the child in touch with his own Original SENSE OF SELF. That which will keep him in a whole-being awareness, he will excel at ANY subject in any field with THAT. Right?!
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