Hi, I’m Cheri Keirstead, Author & Artist
The Transformative Power of Creativity
Life is a constant evolution, and my creative practice has been my guiding light through its challenges. It offers a safe, playful, and nurturing space where I can embrace life's ebb and flow, enabling me to move through uncertainty with grace and resilience. It taught me to stop fighting Fibromyalgia and to embrace its blessings and lessons, to collaborate with my body rather than failing at controlling it.
Embracing Many Roles
As a woman, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend, volunteer, healer, artist, and author, each role has shaped my understanding of life’s intricate tapestry. My experiences within a large extended family, as an employee, business owner, and board member of a women’s group, have taught me invaluable lessons about navigating change, managing the needs of others, and understanding my own path toward wholeness, health, and expansion.
A Mosaic of Experiences
My professional journey has been rich and varied, encompassing roles as a teacher, financial analyst, accounting supervisor, Spiritual Life Coach, and Level 3 EFT and Matrix Re-imprinting Practitioner. In each capacity, I have engaged deeply with writing, crafting non-fiction works including courses, blogs, articles, and manuals, and sharing insights and knowledge, lighting the way for others as well as myself.
A New Chapter in St. Augustine
In 2018, my husband and I embarked on an exciting new adventure in St. Augustine, Florida. This move invited my husband, Burt, and me to dive into uncharted creative waters. I created and maintained a website for a charitable and social women’s organization, taught intuitive painting classes, and fulfilled a lifelong dream of completing and self-publishing my first novel. The sequel to this novel is well underway, with Book 3 in the ethers.
We have also been able to split our time between New England, where we have roots and family, which has added to our creative adventure, loving on our grandchildren.
The Dance of Art and Writing
For me, art and writing are intertwined in a collaborative dance. I am profoundly grateful to have discovered my creative flow, where every brushstroke and word helps me to reveal what is ready for emergence.
Through this dynamic process, I receive guidance and grace, empowering me to create my life with intention while reconnecting with my true self in the light of love. My offering is that all beings may benefit and remember their own creative light.
Timed Writing is both terrifying and freeing
If you're interested in having Cheri as a guest author at a local book club
commissioning a custom piece of art
or host a private workshop in
CREATIVE WRITING
INTUITIVE PAINTING
MIXED MEDIA ART
JOURNAL EXTRAORDINARIAIRE
please send an email to: cheri@cherikeirstead.com
If you don’t have space, we can provide it.