Laura Todd Art

03/09/2026

I call it, “Hoot, Hoot: Owl Love” ✨🌱 🍄 I found some artist conks on the trail last week and carved this family out with a little tool the next evening. Great for sensory seekers.
Getting back into an artist life after teaching 🦋 projects are happening, opportunities have made their way to me with art as I keep seeking. So thankful for the trust in friendship, family, and community. I want to eventually be social media free. It’s good for marketing, but I see my art going in a different direction. 🌱
I need to focus and I have a vision for an illustrative guide book for kids on Iowa’s Wildlife. The more I dream of it, the more I discover from plants and animals on the land we share here. 🙏 It’s time for planning and building where I’m grounded and supported right now and right here.

26/08/2026

Nature is healing and over the Summer I recieved because I was in need and there were many gifts, a few I caught on camera so here’s a look at what has saved my sanity. Immersing myself and literally speaking to animals. We talk to our pets and there is human connection to all the plants and animals when that channel is open inside of us. I recommend hiking in nature and if you can, alone or with a dog, or a child. The overwhelming feelings of emotion from life and trauma of the modern world are healed in the natural world. We need to integrate them like in the past and within our communities but ultimately, I believe it starts with choosing the path of connection outdoors by making best friends with it. That’s when memories like these ones are made and they create the connection to care for nature and as for me, take better care of me. My mental health journey is my own but I recommend forest bathing and communicating with nature as a primary source of healing ourselves in the modern world. 🙏🌍🌱🔥🩷🦋

21/02/2025

06/02/2025

So what exactly did happen to that little artist inside of us? 🤔
A common answer:
Life happened.
Which is not wrong and for children, life happens entirely on the terms of those who take care of them. I believe that is the VERY essense as to why children so naturally seek creativity…and it is rooted in one very powerful word:
FREEDOM
During our Inner Child Workshop Series, you will be given the ✨freedom✨ to explore and connect to your inner child artist:
During each workshop, we will guide you through a different art therapy practice and provide all the supplies…we’ll even allow you to make a mess out your artwork…and we highly encourage it!

One of the main components of art therapy is to heal what cannot be expressed in words- and how often did we as children feel unheard? That is EXACTLY why we have created these workshops: To speak directly to our inner child to feel seen, heard, and loved.

First workshop is Sunday, Feb 16, 2:00-5:30pm
Follow our event for more info and sign-up!
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“What art therapy is not is something that has strict rules. When someone was young, they may have been told that coloring within the lines was a sign of growth, that maturity meant structure. Unfortunately, this was often bad advice, and not only limited the creative side of the brain but may have worked to turn people off to the creative process. Art therapy works to undo this thinking and open up all sorts of possibilities. It is not uncommon for someone who is scared of, or thinks that they are really bad at art, to realize its healing power once the right materials are given to them for expression.”
- Sage Neuroscience Center

27/01/2025

Building our ideas into a reality!!!
My amazing friend Brenda Carl and I are teaming up to put together a workshop to help others that want to connect, explore, and grow more in love with their inner child. 🙏
It was Mister Rogers who said it best:
“You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind”. 🌱🌸
And that we have!
As we started planning we realized that when it comes to Inner Child Healing, a one and done workshop isn’t enough to receive the information and tools needed for an authentic experience.
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Our Feb. 16 workshop will be the first of a series of monthly sessions to offer the opportunity to go deeper into the different aspects of inner child healing.
Expert guest speakers and teachers in the community who are skilled in their specific areas of healing will be leading practices and sharing knowledge on the areas we divided into the upcoming workshop sessions.
These areas include:
📌 The neuropsychology of our inner child
📌 Breath work and somatic release practices
📌 meditation, visualization, and sound healing
📌 Creative and playful practices to meet with and connect to our inner child
📌 Parenting our inner child
📌 Integrating inner child healing in our relationships with ourselves/others
And more!
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Please add yourself as “interested” if you are truly interested, as we will be sharing more details on what you’ll be in for during our first and future workshops!