How I Found Emotional Healing Through Honest Creativity | Heather Falter | TEDxIdahoFalls

What if the value of creative expression for most of us is not in the creation of a masterpiece, but rather to simply give voice to thoughts, feelings, fears and anxieties that build within us? Idaho Falls artist Heather Falter shares her journey of discovering how to heal the heart with a brush or a marker or any means for expressing our creative impulses like a child would. Heather grew up as a middle child in West Point City, Utah.

She has two older sisters and two younger brothers, whom she adores. One of her greatest desires in life is to make her parents proud. She moved out of their home at the young age of 15 and it has kind of been a trademark in her life to believe that she can do anything she sets her mind to. She went to massage school at 17 and has practiced Massage Therapy for the last 10 years.

Creating art has always been a hobby for her, and she spent most of her younger years drawing and painting at the request of others. She enjoyed doing sentimental portraiture for friends. Although she enjoyed it, she concerned herself mostly with the fear of ‘what others would think of her art’ and it wasn’t until a few years ago, one pivotal night changed it all for her. She now creates full time and teaches Art to students of all ages. She is an entrepreneur and owner of the SoulArt School where she currently teaches in her home and online.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx