Explore the messy layers of your inner landscape and create a hope-filled future
I’m a mental wellness advocate, award-winning author, and self-taught artist. For as long as I could remember, I’ve been fascinated by the complexity of emotions and the ways we’ve been taught to hide some and express others.
As a licensed therapist who has used a trauma-informed and hope-inspired approach since 2015, I rely on creative elements and expressive activities to help both my coaching and therapeutic clients explore their rugged, messy, and confusing internal landscape. Emotions are neither good nor bad; instead, they inform us that we are alive.
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Winner of the prestigious Foreword Indies award for Self-Help Book of the Year (Honorable Mention), awarded silver medals by the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) in the Self-Help and Cover Design (Non-fiction) categories, selected by Living Now Book Awards as the gold medal winner in the Journal/Coloring Book category, and chosen by the American Book Fest Best Book Awards as a finalist in the Self-Help: General and Best Cover Design: Nonfiction categories, Inner Field Trip® provides a user-friendly, nonjudgmental, and introspective template for exploring hidden biases about individual and interpersonal inequities.
Based on 7-years of research, Leesa Renée Hall uses expressive art activities and self-reflective journaling prompts to help the reader “meet” their Inner Oppressor. The Inner Oppressor is a manifestation of internalized cultural messages that drive us to judge others but also works to sabotage our own needs. The 30-day program in workbook form takes readers—who become active participants in the experience—on a deep dive from which they will emerge changed.
Latest from the Blog
I have been documenting my curiosities on this blog since 1999. You can get to know what holds my attention with the most recent posts shown below. To see how my expertise has evolved over the past 30ish years, check out the archives.
The BIG Lesson I Learned 5-Years After That Viral Blog Post
Rest isn’t a reward for the work; it’s part of the work – A timeline of this quote
The Key Problem Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals Through a Culturally Responsive & Socially Just Lens
Kindness vs Weaponized Kindness: What’s the Difference?
The Great Opt Out Manifesto: Why I Just Cannot Return to Normal and What I Want Instead (Contains Guided Prompts for Journaling)
