Broken Mirror Healing

03/25/2026

Spring is stirring 🌷
Snow is melting ❄️💧
Edges softening
Light is lengthening ☀️
Something is waking…
beneath the surface 🌱

And with it, an invitation 🌅

✨ “Eggspress Yourself!”🎨🖌️
A free community Art Therapy Workshop
next Monday evening at the Waukesha Public Library 📚

We’ll explore Polish Pisanki—
symbols of protection, renewal, and new life 🥚🌿 and create our own to reflect what’s emerging within.

No experience needed.
Just come as you are 🐣

Slow down. 🕰️
Create with intention. 🎨
Welcome the return of light. 🌱🌞

💛 All are welcome

If you feel called, please join me.
Register Here!
https://brokenmirrorhealing.com/workshops/eggspress-yourself-march-2026

With care,
Mira 🦋

02/10/2026

🔥🙏💫🫆✨♥️♾️♥️✨🫆💫🙏🔥

The night of February 9th

8 years ago tonight -
I was in the fight of my life
I would win the fight for my life
There on the frontlines

Between hope and despair
Between creation and destruction

Between infinite connection and ultimate
isolation

Between order and chaos
Between life and death

There I fought alone

Each breath a victory
Each step a strategy

I walked that lonely road
4,000 miles from home

A car careening
But never meaning

To throw me from that road
It came too fast
I couldn’t last
And down and down I’d go

Two stories up
Two seconds down

My spine broke like glass
When I hit the ground

Splintered and shattered
And no one around

My prayers went up
The rain fell down
On jagged rocks
And earthen mounds

I called out for help
Could not hear a sound

But the spirits were there
And the angels abound

Life is fragile and finite
That could have been my last night

Is this is period or a semicolon?
This author decides when this story will end.
One chapter fades out so the next can begin;
My eyes will behold the dawn rising again

The morning of February 10th

🔥🙏💫🫆✨♥️♾️♥️✨🫆💫🙏

01/07/2026

We survived 2025 — and that’s worth honoring. 👏🏅🙌
Join me for Tree-t Yo’ Self!, a free, no-pressure art therapy workshop open to the community.🌲🌳👬👫👭🌳🌲

Enjoy guided reflection, creative time with some natural art materials, and make a handmade self-award to celebrate your growth and resilience.

Experience art therapy in a warm, welcoming library space this Monday evening.

Register here:
https://brokenmirrorhealing.com/workshops/january-2026-community-workshop

01/07/2026

🎇✨ Happy New Year ✨🎇
From
👐Broken Mirror Healing👐

May 2026 open new doors, thrilling thresholds, and clear windows — offering fresh ways of meeting yourself, even through the cracked and tender places. Within them, light, clarity, growth, and healing can take root.

Stay tuned for upcoming workshops, therapeutic art experiences, and opportunities for reflection and restoration in the year ahead. 🌱🪞🌻

12/15/2025

12/15/2025

I’ve been spreading the word around Waukesha, and I’d love to see you tonight 🌟

Our FREE monthly art therapy workshop series begins this evening with the December offering:
🌟🎁 The Present of Presence 🎁🌟

This all-ages wokshop is an invitation to slow down, breathe deep, create, and reconnect—through mindful art-making in a warm, welcoming space. No experience needed, all supplies provided.

🎄This gathering is open to the entire community, with a special focus on supporting those affected by the 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade.

Each month, Broken Mirror Healing will offer a new, seasonally inspired art therapy experience at the Library, rooted in wellness, stress relief, community crafting, and accessible creativity for all ages and abilities.

🕰️Register ahead—or simply show up.
❄️Let this be your pause.

Tonight at the Waukesha Public Library.
Your presence is the present 💛🎁

11/21/2025

COMMUNITY HEALING SUNSET MEDITATION ✨🎨🫶👥🧡🌅TODAY 🌅🧡🙌👥🎨✨

Today is a tender day in Waukesha.

November 21 marks four years since the Waukesha Parade Tragedy. Anniversaries of traumatic events often bring up feelings that can be complex, unexpected, or difficult to put into words. As this day dawns, I offer a gentle reminder that there is no “right” way to feel or be today, and no timeline or rules for what healing should look like. Grief and recovery are not linear. They move in cycles, ebbing and flowing like the tide, receding and returning in waves. Some days feel heavier than others. Some days ask for gentleness. Today is one of those days.

Trauma reminders often stir things in ways we don’t expect and can disrupt our days. Many community members may find memories, emotions, and sensations resurfacing around this time, which can lead to stress, sadness, uncertainty, and a host of other challenges. These are moments that call forth courage and patience within ourselves and care and compassion for others.

To support anyone who may benefit from some grounding and connection before tonight’s Remembrance Ceremony, I will be offering a brief, trauma-informed walking meditation at 4 PM at the Native American Mounds outside the Waukesha Public Library. This 20-minute gathering is designed to create a calm, supportive space to steady the breath, reconnect with the land, and prepare for an emotionally meaningful evening. Healing Art Kits will be available to all who attend.

🌬️🍃🌄🌬️✨🌅🌬️💕🌄🌬️🍂🌅🌬️🔥🌞

Afterward, we will walk together (9 minutes) to the City of Waukesha’s Parade Tragedy Remembrance, beginning at 4:39 PM in Grede Park. The city’s ceremony will honor the lives lost, those still healing, and the resilience of this community. It will also include the dedication of the final memorial sculpture, “Holding Love”, by artist Carmen De La Paz. More information about this event can be found here:

🔗 City of Waukesha Parade Tragedy Remembrance
https://www.waukesha-wi.gov/parade-tragedy-remembrance.php

💔❤️‍🩹❤️💔❤️‍🩹❤️💔❤️‍🩹❤️💔❤️‍🩹❤️💔❤️‍🩹

I have had the honor of supporting the Waukesha community since the day after the parade four years ago, and I remain committed to walking alongside you. I will continue to offer care, creativity, and spaces for healing. Support is always available. In the coming weeks, Broken Mirror Healing will be expanding services in Waukesha, with upcoming workshops and creative healing opportunities soon to be announced.

All are welcome today.
If you are seeking connection, reflection, or simply a moment of calm, I hope you’ll join us.

With care,
Mira Newell, MS, ATR
Art Therapist
Broken Mirror Healing

07/05/2025

Fly your Flag 🇳🇨🇱🇻🇨🇲🇨🇻🇧🇹🇨🇩🏴‍☠️🇳🇵
Speak your Truth 🗣️‼️⁉️❗️❓❣️

06/25/2025

I will be one of the presenters at this event tonight! 🌸🌺🌼🌊🌼🌺🌸

06/25/2025

🌿✨ Join me tonight for one of my favorite summer traditions! I’m honored to be one of the co-facilitators of the Wianki (flower crown) workshop and festival at the Polish Center of Wisconsin, a beautiful celebration rooted in nature and Polish ancestral wisdom.

🎨🌹As an art therapist, I’m continually moved by how these rituals connect us to the earth, to one another, and to the inner parts of ourselves that long to create, remember, and hope. I’ll be sharing stories of the Wianki tradition and guiding participants as we place our wreaths on the water—carrying our wishes, dreams, and intentions into the flowing current, just as generations before us have done on Kupala Night (Sobotka).

🌻💛This event has held a special place in my heart since its beginning three years ago, and it’s a joy to return this year as both a guide and past Wianki competition winner (that’s me in the blue and white wreath in the last picture 😊) . I’m grateful to return to this magical space where cultural heritage and healing creativity meet, and to help others connect with their heritage and their future.

All are welcome to come experience the music, dance, folklore, and community spirit of this magical midsummer gathering—tonight at the Polish Center of Wisconsin
🌸🌊🌼