Somatic Shadow Work & Plant Medicine Integration, Through Your Hands — Not Your Head.

Permission to Feel

An Embodied Art Journal

$18.99

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For anyone integrating something big —

A shadow you're finally ready to look at. A plant medicine experience still moving through you. An awakening that changed you, and hasn't fully landed yet. A feeling too big for words. This book doesn't ask you to explain it. It asks you to move it — through your hand, a pen, and your Inner Artist.

Your ability to be human is a commitment to recreating, in this moment, the nourishment you didn't have when you were younger but still need. This book supports you in creating that nourishment. Empower yourself by allowing your Inner Artist to guide you through a series of somatic prompts, doodles, coloring, and a unique flavor of shadow inquiry.

What's inside:

✓ 15 somatic drawing and coloring journeys guided by breath and sensation

✓ Hand-drawn original ancestral art — 100% human-crafted, no AI

✓ Somatic prompts that meet you exactly where you are

✓ Reflection pages to explore what your Inner Artist is communicating

✓ A body-led rainbow building practice unique to somaCREATIVE™

✓ Space to play, doodle, and feel — freely, without a grade attached

Not Therapy. Not a Replacement. A Companion.

This book is not a substitute for professional mental health support. It's a somatic tool — something to sit alongside your therapist, your integration circle, or your own quiet process. No analysis required. No "right" way to draw. Just your hand, a pen, and permission to feel whatever's moving through you.

  • ★★★★★ Heartfelt and Healing

    "There is something deeply healing about being reminded that creativity doesn't begin in the mind.

    It begins in relationship. Relationship with sensation, with curiosity, with breath, and with the quiet places within ourselves that have been waiting to be met. This is what I love about Permission to Feel. It doesn't ask you to become more creative. It gently helps you remember that the creative impulse has always been there. Through simple, body-led practices,

    Jessenia offers a spacious and compassionate way of reconnecting with the Inner Artist that so many of us learned to hide. As a somatic therapist, I appreciate the care with which this book invites people away from performance and toward presence.

    There is no pressure to create something beautiful. Instead, there is an invitation to listen, to play, and to discover what wants to emerge when the body feels safe enough to express itself. I can imagine this becoming a meaningful companion for anyone longing to reconnect with the healing powers of creativity, especially those who have spent years believing they were "not artistic.""

    — Publio Valle da Silva

  • ★★★★★ LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

    “A beautiful invitation to come home to yourself.

    Permission to Feel is so much more than a coloring book — it is a journey into creativity, embodiment, and self-connection. Through breath, body awareness, color, and guided practices, this book creates a gentle space to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the Inner Artist within.

    I love how it removes the pressure to create something “perfect” and instead invites curiosity, presence, and authentic expression. It reminds us that creativity is not something we have to earn or prove — it is already within us, waiting to be welcomed home.

    Permission to Feel offers a beautiful pathway back to your own aliveness.

    A heartfelt, inspiring, and nourishing experience.

    This is not just a book you read — it is a practice you feel ❤️”

    — Bianca Singh

  • ★★★★★ Great book for grounding yourself!

    Wonderful book! I purchased it to keep me company through a major life transition, the exercises are very calming 🙂 I haven't used colored pencils since I was a kid... Much respect to the author ✨🙏🏼✨

    — Spike M Love

Just color, doodle, and have fun.

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