O
ne would never know
she wasn’t raised on a ranch.
“Throughout my childhood, I rode
every chance I could snag a ride on
someone else’s horse. The mean
ones. The bad. The big. Little. I fell
off constantly, and picked myself up,
watching those four-legged devils
run away from me, and scheming
how I’d succeed in clambering back
onto their backs again.” Rush is no
stranger to pulling herself up and
working hard to achieve her goals.
Born the eldest daughter in a
Midwest family, Rush struggled from
trauma during her early years. She
caught herself, as an adult, repeating
the dysfunctional behavior patterns
modeled for her as a child. Choosing
to return to the source of her wounds,
in 1992 she began healing through
painting. Using a yellow legal
notepad next to the drafting table,
words flowed to accompany the
works of art and became part of her
healing journey. “The combination
of images and words triggers
both sides of the human brain to
fire simultaneously. The result is
a whole-brained response, one
that accesses unlimited, intuitive
healing.”
The 17th painting in the collection
was completed in 1998. The
paint was still wet when she first
displayed the entire collection with
texts next to them. The exhibit
was for the grand opening of a
housing development. Currently, the
collection is available for viewing in
the eBook Art of the Journey: The
Healing of a Lifetime.
The art in this collection are not in
Rush’s usual style of beauty and
light; however, halfway through
there is a shift to joy and hope as the
inner healing is revealed.
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