Amira on Lifting Vibrations to Heal

THE HEY GIRL PODCAST

Alex Elle

Arts, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Alex sits down with painter, Amira Rahim, to discuss art as meditation, healing, and making space for intentional and creative self-care. Connect with Amira here Buy her art here. ———— hey, girl. is mixed & produced by Wayne Bertram. Connect with Alex on Instagram: @alex_elle @theheygirlpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alex L and I write books for a living.
0:04.0	The Hey Girl Podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind.
0:09.0	Hey girl.
0:10.0	Hey girl.
0:11.0	Hey girl.
0:12.0	Hey girl. Hey girl.
0:16.0	Join us as we journey through sharing together.
0:21.0	Hey girl. Hey girl.
0:22.0	Hi Amira, how are you today? I'm good Alex, how are you? I'm doing great. It's so awesome to chat with you. I am very, very excited to have this conversation. But before we do, can you please let the hey girl
0:36.1	listeners know who you are and what you do? Oh yeah, I am fan girl and over here. So my name is Amira Rahim and I'm a full-time artist and also a coach to other painters.
0:48.5	So I found your work on Instagram randomly because I've been doing abstract painting as self-care and when I discovered your
0:57.3	page I immediately fell in love with all the colors you use and that you were a black woman and I was just like oh my gosh where
1:05.2	she been all my life and it was so wonderful so I'm fan girling over here too.
1:09.5	You know just like to get to know more about you and your work how did you get started in this and why are you
1:16.1	so passionate about abstract art and using colors which remind me of joy in such interesting and unique ways.
1:25.0	Before I get into answering that, because it has a little bit to do with psychology and my own self-care.
1:31.0	I want to say, like, huge shout out to you because a few years ago is this crazy
1:36.0	we're even talking right now because a few years ago I have purchased your book and it was a brief story
1:42.1	that I believe was like the first book with the poem.
1:44.5	Words from a wanderer. Oh my gosh, my very first baby book.
1:49.7	Yes, and it was just perfect. I had just got back from wandering and I was overseas like in Mexico and I came back to New Jersey and I had a lot of healing to do that I didn't even know it was waiting for me. All I knew was just like raw emotion and healing a lot of relationship issues and just tending to my own needs and like reading your book was just felt like a best friend or like this big sister, like the words that you need to hear.
2:16.7	And I just love how you've been able to validate just the human experience in such an eloquent way.
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