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About Johanna

I'm Johanna (most people call me Hanna). I'm an energy worker, illustrator, channeler, artist, author, licensed massage therapist, and parent.

For most of my adult life I've helped people explore their inner worlds through art, creativity, energy work, and bodywork.

I created the Creative Consciousness Healing Oracle Deck and the illustrated guided journals The Magic of Mindset and Follow the Magic because I needed these very tools. They grew from years of filling journals and index cards with drawings, questions, symbols, and reminders that eventually found their way into the hands of thousands of other people.

I believe every person deserves to feel safe in their body, welcomed exactly as they are, and reminded of their own inherent creativity and worth.

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Let’s start at the very beginning….

I think it’s probably fair to say that the 1980’s were not the most advanced era for spotting neurodivergence in girls…

As a kid, I was highly sensitive, imaginative, and awake far too late worrying about things like volcanoes, shark attacks, and getting trapped in New York City subway doors. (pretty impressive for a kid that lived in Oregon and had never actually been to New York...)

I often experienced the emotional weather of others and could see colors and images that others didn’t. Art became my way of making sense of the world…

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A young woman with dark hair sitting at a desk, writing in a notebook with a pen, wearing a sleeveless top and beaded bracelet, in a black and white photo.

Selling Art in NYC

In my early twenties, I moved from Oregon to New York City to pursue children's book illustration, despite the aforementioned subway door risk. This was before social media, before online portfolios, and in the late 90’s when everything was as cool as it seems.

I sold my artwork on the street and somehow, that turned into a career.

Over the next 10 years I wrote and illustrated more than fifteen children's books, worked with publishers like Penguin, Scholastic, and Simon and Schuster alongside editors like the great Neal Porter, and artists like the incredible Sarah Oliphant. I sold thousands of artwork pieces worldwide, painted large scale backdrops for photography and film, appeared in magazines and on TV, and built a life around creativity.

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Then life got very life-y.

I became a mother to my first child, and a completely new chapter of love, responsibility, and expansion began. Later, our second child arrived, and life expanded again in ways I couldn’t have fully imagined.

Around the same time, my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and I moved into a season of grief and caretaking I hadn’t experienced before.

This will come as no surprise to many of you experiencing something similar…but my body began breaking down with chronic pain, autoimmune challenges, burnout, and nervous system overwhelm.

I felt like I was searching for the light of myself in a dark room.

It led me into a whole decade of studying and practicing energy medicine, channeling, consciousness healing, psychedelic therapy, myofascial release, cranial sacral therapy, nervous system regulation, creativity, grief, and the many ways humans heal and transform.

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During these years of learning and expanding, I tried to figure out ways to help myself integrate it all. Notes and drawings I scribbled in journals eventually grew into oracle decks, guided journals, books, and creative tools.

Today, I work with many special people I’m lucky to call my clients. These folks tend to be intuitive, creative, and often neurodiverse humans who are carrying big visions while navigating the very real experience of being in a body.

Through bodywork, energy work, intuitive guidance, oracle tools, and creative exploration, I help people reconnect with their own inner wisdom, soften what has been held for too long, integrate change, and gently untangle what no longer belongs to them.

If you’re feeling drawn to this space, welcome.