Rebuilding

What does it mean when you feel heartbroken or like your heart has been shattered? The first thing we have learned to say is that someone or something has hurt us. However, if you're willing to examine the situation that led to the metaphorical broken heart, I think that at the core you'll find that your heartbreak is a result of things not going quite as you had expected, planned, or wanted them to go. You miss what you had, what you felt, and your future plans. You miss your expectations.

In situ: Rebuilding
Acrylic on Canvas
28x22x1.5 inches

Sometimes you didn't see it coming. Other times you may have had an intuitive feeling about a situation, but you pushed for it anyway. You know that you can't control the choices that others make, no matter how heavily you try to influence them. However, you can always be in control of the choices that you make.

When you are able to self-reflect, then the true rebuilding process can begin. Rebuilding means picking up those shattered pieces, but rather than trying to put them back together as they were, making something better out of them instead.

In situ: Rebuilding
Acrylic on Canvas
28x22x1.5 inches

You see, no matter what it is that leaves your heart shattered, you can't go back to the way you were or the way things were. You have new information now that you didn't have before, which means that you have expanded and grown. There are pieces that won't fit into the puzzle anymore, leaving space for new pieces to form. Better yet, there's even more space for the best parts of you to reveal themselves.

I talk more in-depth about this in my YouTube podcast

What if picking yourself back up means becoming a bigger and better version of yourself? In this episode I talk about what it means to rebuild your heart after a shattering moment. I've channeled the steps to Rebuilding to help you flow with ease into the wondrous new world that awaits you.

This Is Where You'll Find My Heart

When it comes to manifesting, the things you want and need come to you most easily when you make it easy for that thing/person/opportunity to find you. How do you do that? You show up, you take action, you stay open, you continue to move forward and you take care of yourself.

In the process of creating this painting, I understood that I was giving the Universe a roadmap. Yes, there may be some roadblocks, some wrong turns taken, and some dead ends. You could be looking for a career you love, clients you love, an activity you love, friends you love, or a romantic partner you love. The theory works the same for all of these. When you give the Universe a roadmap, you are committing to showing up in your most authentic way because there is someone looking for you exactly as you are. What you truly desire already wants you more. 

I talk more in-depth about this in my YouTube podcast

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It's About a Journey

It can be hard to see the bigger picture. It takes practice to take a bird's-eye view of a situation unfolding, especially as we're going through an emotional one. When we're going through something heartbreaking, how can we think of anything else except the pain that we are feeling in that moment? We first must honor that feeling, then honor the moment, then honor the journey. It takes practice.

When I went through my own challenging time, I sometimes fell into thoughts of "why did it have to happen this way?" My unwavering belief in God and the Angels, my Spiritual beliefs, my visions and connections with the other side, all got me through. They regularly showed me ways I could heal and what was ahead for me.

Five years later, I can see how everything that happened was part of the journey. I can see how my own healing lead me to healing others and the ability to connect with the higher beings. Sure, I would have wanted it to happen differently, but this was the path. None of this would have happened for me if I hadn't had the courage to move through that temporary pain and look for hope in what was next.

It's about understanding that these are all moments to appreciate, accumulating together to form our journey. What moment do you want the courage to move through? I know that courage is already within you.

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Featured Art: Dual Complexity

Woohoo! You get to see this first! This week I created a video explaining what inspired the creation of my painting Dual Complexity. I’m sharing this with you first (well, technically YouTube first, but that’s only because I need to put it on YouTube so that I can share it here).

I finally found the courage to talk about this painting for the strangest reason. A few weeks ago I was in a workshop with other psychic mediums where we took a few minutes every day of the workshop to practice with the other students. One person who was reading my aura told me about this “duality” in my personality, and how I often feel that most of the people in my life only know one half of me.

I created this painting in 2018, so at the time that I created this video in 2021, nearly three years have passed. Wow! No one else had ever recognized this about me before, and when I created this painting and gave it its name, no one truly understood it. Possibly I didn’t even fully understand it yet. This is why I love being part of the psychic mediumship community. We know each other even when we have never met before.

©August 2018, Francesca Bandino, Dual Complexity. Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 40x30x.8 inches.

Featured Art: Evergreen

My painting Evergreen was accepted into the Rockland Virtual Arts Festival from April 1 - 30, 2021. As part of my participation, I created a video that lasted less than two minutes describing my painting. Here I talked more about the process than the feelings involved. You can watch the video below. It is on the Rockland Arts Festival Youtube channel.

What got cut out of the video is the meaning behind the painting. I use a lot of my representational work as metaphors for my feelings, experiences, and opinions. Evergreen is about our inner strength. It’s about our ability to go through the harshest of times, all the while discovering the inner strength that helps us to make it through.

©February 2020, Francesca Bandino, Evergreen. Acrylic on Canvas, 24x20x1.5 inches.

In situ image by Francesca Bandino