“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is to be present in the present. Gratefully.”
Meet LeeAnn Foltz
LeeAnn Foltz is a life-long creative spirit who shares her own creative and spiritual journeys with others hoping through story sharing and connection she will inspire self-wisdom and soul healing in our families, communities, and world. She trained as a Spiritual Companion at the Haden Institute in Asheville, NC becoming certified in January 2020. In March of that same year, LeeAnn was certified under Catherine Anderson as a SoulCollage® Facilitator. LeeAnn currently serves the SoulCollage® community as a Virtual Community Outreach Coordinator where she has been a part-time consultant since March 2021.
She also holds a master’s degree in Art History, a Law Degree from the University of South Carolina and is a Reiki Master. An avid learner and mystic, her encounter with the works of Wassily Kandinsky in high school sparked an unending passion for the wordless way that color, form, and energy speak to us and through us with images, symbols and archetypes.
Growing Wings
When I was in elementary school, I took a cocoon I had found in my yard to school for show and tell. I lived several blocks from my school, so I walked home most days. On the afternoon I took the cocoon home, something frightening happened on the journey. As I carefully held the glass jar so the sleeping caterpillar wouldn’t be disturbed, I noticed a startling change happening in the jar. A colorful winged creature was emerging from the depths of the light brown sack. I was terrified!!!
I managed to make my way to the house of one of my mother’s bridge friends, Lib. When I showed her what was happening, she smiled and told me this was exactly what was supposed to happen. That this was nature transforming life from one state to another. A beautiful butterfly had been born. I’m sure back then that the import of this transformation made no sense to my little mind. But to my heart, a deep seed of truth had been planted. Now much older, and hopefully a little wiser, I have begun to see my life as an unending series of caterpillar to butterfly growth moments. Never content to stay the caterpillar for long, I keep growing new wings and being reborn, like the butterfly, to something new and deeper.
My Journey
My personal soul journey has taken me from growing up in a family of four in South Carolina to life with my own family of four in Northern Kentucky. Along the way, I’ve been an Art Museum Education Curator, an Insurance Claims Processing Manager, a Director of Reimbursement for a Pharmacy Billing Company, a Compliance Officer, a Healthcare Attorney and, now, a Seeker of Mystery.
Throughout all of these versions of me, I have always had a love of nature and the creative world. From sitting under the treasured Willow Tree in my girlhood home when I was young, to annual visits to the beach, to hiking newly discovered trails in my own neighborhood, the experience of nature has brought delight, nurture, wonder and awe. My creative soul has found expression in so many ways from my once mermaid colored hair, to cross stitching my own designs, to photo scrapbook mania, to beaded jewelry making and, more recently, the transformative practice of SoulCollage® card creation.
For me, connection with the natural world and exploration of my creative spirit has brought profound soul moments of self-discovery---an awakening to my truest self. A life-long avid learner, I am always reading several books at the same time in search of knowledge and deeper understanding about the mysteries of this life. (Some of my favorite books and authors are shared in the AWE Library.) I am equally a lover of of mixed media collage, watercolor, fiber arts and junk journal book making. In addition to offering creative workshops and spiritual companioning, I personally engage in my own creative practices and workshops with fellow practitioners to continually enhance my own inner knowing, well-being and growth. I hope you will join me on the journey!
“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
