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I am so blessed and excited that I am able to offer a new blogtalkradio show - Inspirations of the Heart Radio.

Part of my commitment for helping create a world of peace, joy and love is to have a platform for folks to come and speak their truth filled with inspiration, hope and resiliency. My intention is to, perhaps, offer an alternative look with how we view what is currently happening worldwide. During this period of tremendous shift, many of us are being called to take a closer look at how our lives are working for us and what changes are necessary for us to make in order to live a fuller and happier life. So, with that in mind, I have invited national and international authors and visionaries to share their secrets of how to live a happier more prosperous life, while also addressing their challenges in an open and authentic way.

So, please join us for an hour of insight, laughter, wisdom and courage. Your calls and feedback are most welcomed.
Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 AM – 12 PM Pacific Time.

I am very grateful to all of my guests who have shared their heartfelt conversations with me. Their honesty and candidness has been inspiring and humbling. This blog is dedicated to them. Please take a few moments to be inspired by them by visiting their websites and listening to their archived shows.

With a Grateful and Very Full Heart,
Catherine

Jerry Wennstrom

Written by Catherine VanWetter

Wednesday, 03 February 2010 00:00

The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation

At a time when many people are experiencing the loss of everything they most identify with, Jerry's experience living creatively in "the void" offers inspiration , hope and new possibility.

In this conversation we will discuss:
•    Why Jerry destroyed a large body of art, gave everything he owned away and lived this way for over 15 years
•    Death as an important metaphor for life
•    Renewal of an artist
•    Explore Jerry's unusual "beings"
•    The message in Jerry's book "The Inspired Heart"
•    Life-altering lessons learned during a ten-year sojourn
•    Jerry's 40-foot stupa built with his own hands on hisr property in Washington

Jerry Wennstrom is an artist, author of "The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation" (book and audiobook) and subject of Parabola and Sentient Publications documentary videos, "In the Hands of Alchemy” and "Studio Dialogue."

In the late 1970s, Jerry Wennstrom was a rising star in the New York art world when he realized that his life as an artist had become too small a container to hold the larger, inspired creation he intuited was coming through. It was at this point that he let go of his identity as an artist and set out to discover the rock-bottom truth of his life. He destroyed his large body of art, gave away all of his possessions, and spent the next 15 years living in the moment, on basically nothing, surrendered to unconditional trust and the creative inspiration of his heart.

Transformed, he re-emerged into the world as a more complete human being and artist. His entire new body of art is rooted in innocence and spontaneity and they have taken the form of unique, interactive, life-size, interactive sculptures made largely of carved cedar and found objects that are multi layered and reveal inner workings and hidden surprises.