Meet Natasha
I remember as a kid my dad always saying, “All you have to do is find one thing you are passionate about and just stick with it.” While that line of thinking made sense in theory, in practice it was so hard for me to execute. I felt like I had so many interests; I wanted to be both a fashion designer and a pediatrician when I grew up…Go figure that didn’t happen, but what did happen was, I learnt I’m both creative and logical, artistic and practical, magical and muggle…
So “naturally” I became a psychotherapist. Which ended up being the best thing; despite not achieving my childhood dreams, I discovered along my path that I am so many things. I’m not just passionate about one thing. I’m not just a licensed therapist who has been practicing for almost 15 years. Not just a wife of 10 years or a mother to two beautiful boys. Not just the only daughter to two immigrant parents. Nor just a former competitive ballroom dancer. Not only a woman of 37 years or an artist whose main medium was her own hair. Nor just a writer who discovered her own voice on while on a spiritual journey. The thing is I am all of these things and so much more, just like I know you too are so more than the sum of your parts.
So if you are here I believe it’s for a reason… To connect, to share, to be inspired or just to feel there is some truth, something more. And I say this because that’s why I’m here. I’ so excited to share and grow with you!
Join me on this journey with my book The Art of Motherhood, and the continuation of that journey with the Out of the Reeds Podcast.
Introducing The Art, The Book, &The Podcast
What started as a one off idea, “ What if I made pictures out of the hair I’m losing…I mean I’m putting it on the walls anyway.” Became the project that brought me back to myself. In 2018 after the birth of my first son the HairART project was born.
The link to the Gallery here shows some of my favorite pieces and the pieces that are in The Art of Motherhood.
The HairART
The Book as a whole came together rather quickly. I didn’t actually realize until I made the decision to write it, that I had basically been putting a book together for years unbeknownst to myself. Poems written years before, in the dead of night when the baby was asleep. And pictures of the hair art captured and saved; not to mention the journeys of 2023 that my memoirs hailed from. Thus, by 2024 the book just geled together. And here is the final result, in print.
The Book
The podcast Out of the Reeds is growing from the same place the book did — a deep need for honest conversation about what it really means to be a woman, a mother, and a creative soul navigating this life.
Stay tuned… Episodes launching in May 2026.