Meghan Barich - Coach

2025, you were full of color, creativity, collaboration, and connection — and the beginnings of my graduate counseling studies 🎓 at .

Swipe ➡️ through this little year-end reflection from my artful corner of the world:

❷ Grateful for another year facilitating journaling inside a federal correctional facility — plus creating and teaching my first train-the-trainer curriculum to support peer-led reflection.

❸ Experienced the joy of being connected to and through the generous outreach of — which led to and sharing some of my work on .

❹ Became a teaching artist at and led 100+ students through mixed media workshops, creating one-of-a-kind meaningful pieces using the same tools and techniques I use in my own art.

❺ At this year’s Decorator’s Show House & Gardens , the wildly creative featured custom artwork I made through my collaboration with in The Keepsake Collection — also featured in the 2025 Anti-Clutter Gift Guide.

❻ Together with , we brought workshops to IPS art teachers for a professional development day and hosted an meetup at the beautiful .

❼ Showed and sold my work at my first-ever tented outdoor festival — where 90% of my pieces hung in custom frames made by the love of my life, .art. A true joy to witness her mastering woodworking 🤍

❽ Sold my largest commission to date: a 48”×48” mixed media piece layered with meaningful photos, postcards, and scraps from a family’s travels in Spain. A huge honor.

Art as connection also looked like this: birthday parties, 1:1 sessions with teens, endless collage papers, and so many moments of brave, imperfect making.

Thank you to everyone who created with me this year — students, collaborators, collectors, teachers, and friends.

Here’s to more art, more trust in process, and more space to create in 2026.

xo,
Meghan

This Thursday join me at for Mini Mixed Media workshop as part of .

No experience needed — we’re going to roll the dice 🎲 to push back to overthinking and open up our creative expression! Come play! 🎨

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