Where Life Meets Art: Channeling Grief, Addiction, and Trauma into Beautiful Expressions

The amazing thing about life is that the greatest hardships and sorrows can produce the most exquisite creations and victories. Adriana Marchione has navigated significant grief and challenges in her life and found expressive arts and performance to be her most powerful tool for recovery. In turn she now lives to help others navigate their own paths and learn to make magic from the darkest times.

Show Notes

Powerful emotions and experiences such as grief, loss, and addiction can be extremely challenging to sit with and process. Which is why it's so important to have a means of channeling these feelings. Adriana Marchione has made it her life's work to help people use the expressive arts as a way to work through and beyond the hardships of life. On this episode, Adriana shares her personal story of loss and addiction and how she found her way through the darkness and into the brilliant light of expressive arts in the form of dance, photography and film making. Having both struggled with addiction and gone through recovery, we have an in depth discussion of the experience of reclaiming yourself after hitting bottom with a thud and learning to live life without all the numbing agents to avoid feeling. Adriana shares about her remarkable career in the arts and as an expressive arts therapist and her journey into the daunting world of film making. Her story is inspiring, exciting, and endearing for all of us who have faced loss and learned to live and thrive again. 

Adriana Marchione, MA, REAT, RSMT has been involved in the arts for over thirty years as a filmmaker, dancer, photographer and is internationally recognized in her work as a movement-based expressive arts therapist and educator. Since 2002, Adriana has taught at the renowned Tamalpa Institute, WHEAT Institute in Canada and founded her own wellness center in San Francisco. She has presented her creative healing approach, with a focus on addiction, eating disorders, trauma and grief, at festivals, conferences, and treatment centers including South by Southwest, Studio le théâtre du Corps in Paris, Ohlhoff Recovery Program and La Ventana Eating Disorder Program. Adriana created When the Fall Comes in 2013, a performance project that culminated in a short film based on her own life story encountering intimate grief and loss. When the Fall Comes was translated into French and Korean and streamed in universities across America and Canada through Kanopy. She recently directed The Creative High, a feature documentary film featuring artist stories of addiction and recovery. Adriana has been in recovery from alcoholism for 28 years and was awarded Artist of the Year by ‘In Recovery’ magazine in 2016. 

Learn more about Adriana, her work, and check out her films here!

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Film Websites:
www.whenthefallcomes.com
www.thecreativehigh.com

To buy a ticket for the premiere of The Creative High at SF IndieFest , Sunday, February 6th: https://thecreativehigh.com/screenings/

To Rent When the Fall Comes on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whenthefallcomes/

What is Women Waken: Spiritual Healing for Trauma in Relationships to Shift from Codependency to Divine Feminine?

My name is Whitney Walker, welcome to Women Waken! I am a Licensed Mental Health Therapist specialising in substance abuse, addiction, eating disorders, trauma, and Spirituality. Over 10 years ago I walked into a therapist office for the first time because I realised that I felt incapable of handling life. I abused drugs and alcohol, had rock bottom self esteem, often felt suicidal, was very self destructive, and had no idea how to resolve what felt like a complete mess inside my mind and emotions.

After years of therapy, getting sober, and choosing to begin the journey of unconditional self love for myself, things started to change. My self esteem rose along with my self regard and kindness towards myself. I knew there was only one thing I wanted to do with the rest of my life; help others out of the place that I was in and start figuring out how we can end these cycles for good, for all of us.

Women Waken is building community and offering a platform for Women to come together who share a vision of creating a new way of life where insecurity, low self esteem, and self- destruction are no longer the norm. Where we are able to rebalance the dynamic between the inner and outer Worlds so that our ability to love and accept ourselves is no longer dependent on externals.

On this show, we speak to Women who are seeking to heal from traumas/habits/addictions that are keeping them in a place of disempowerment who are ready to begin aligning with their true self and are ready to let their light shine

I release two episodes a week, an interview and solo episode,

If you feel ready to reclaim your power and stand in your Divine light I hope this show finds you!