The Deeper Connection
This blog is designed to help you recover that important connection to your own core voice as an artist—first in understanding what it truly is and how unique it is to each one of us. The fingerprint of your very own soul. A reflection of your truest and most authentic core self.
Introducing the Deeper Connection Community
Formerly Recovering Your Intuitive Voice for Art + Life, the core purpose remains the same: to help you make that vital connection to your authentic core voice, and to work through the blocks that show up—in the studio and in life to achieve your goals.
The name reflects what members say again and again is at the heart of their experience here—real connection. Not just to each other, but to the deeper, often quieter parts of themselves that know what they need, even in the midst of chaos.
And let’s be honest: 2026 has not been easy. From the relentless news cycle to the low hum of anxiety so many of us are carrying, there’s no way to sugarcoat the emotional toll. But what we can do is show up for ourselves and each other in ways that matter.
Inside The Deeper Connection, members are finding our five monthly live gatherings to be something of a lifeline—a steady rhythm of support, creative expression, and honest conversation. Whether it’s through collaborative art-making and journal exercises, group coaching, peer-to-peer connection, casual conversation or our more formal members Show and Tell, these moments remind us we’re not alone.
We do not see art and life as separate. We affirm the artist within each member, whether they are actively pursuing their craft, or taking a hiatus from producing anything that the world might identify as art. Keeping the hands busy while connecting within our community can be as simple as doodling on a piece of paper while listening to the conversation.
Within these hangouts, plans for collaboration projects begin to take root. Messages of perseverance and hope are shared through discussions and art-making, and a sense of equilibrium and trust in ones own core authentic voice is restored through the simple act of belonging, being allowed to show up in the full spectrum of our humanity and be seen.
The formal description of group membership benefits are:
Monthly prerecorded course posts. Lesson videos post approximately twice each month. Our current study is Small Scale Assemblage.
PLUS+ continued access to all previous lessons, live tutorials, and workshops.
Written posts include a monthly recap of our live hangouts, featuring group members art, questions, and recommendations.
Five live hangout sessions! Coaching/Guidance towards goals, tutorials, peer-to-peer support, art making, live journal and writing exercises and casual conversation. This is the time we get to connect as a community and get to know each other, talk about our own journey as artists and creatives in a very casual atmosphere as we keep our hands busy creating. Equal parts group coaching, accountability, and mentorship.
Opportunities for art swaps, collaborative group projects, and More!
Hi I’m Crystal Marie!
Artist, Writer, Speaker, Intuitive, Way Pointer
I’m not here to teach you to make art. I’m here to teach you to use your voice! My passion in teaching comes from discovering that my intuitive voice is simply the core, most authentic expression, of my own dang voice. Learning to tune in to listen to it has led me to create art, and a life, that is beyond what I ever believed possible.
Here’s a bit more about my life as an artist:
Crystal Marie is an artist and an author with a passion for teaching others how to recover their own unique voice. Her process is intuitive, which, she says, is simply the truest, most authentic version of her own voice.
Following her intuitive knowing has been the foundation of Crystal’s career as an artist, when in her 30s a happenstance encounter with a stranger handing her an art magazine was all it took to awaken that long forgotten place inside.
Today Crystal has an established career as a professional artist with gallery representation, one book published on the art of collage, and is currently writing a book about the intuitive voice. Crystal was the recipient of the 2018 RAM Artist Fellowship award, has exhibited her work in many fine art exhibitions, solo shows, and art events. She teaches workshops online and locations across the US.
I’m so glad you’ve decided to join us at the virtual table!
Crystal Marie
