Turning Pain into Power: How I Turned Pain into Art on a Friday Morning

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Friday morning, getting dressed in my sweats and my “I am the Plot Twist” t-shirt I had screen printed back in June for my flash mob turned into a quickie.

Twenty minutes before this, I was in heavy pelvic pain, again, for the billionth day in a row, still listening, still asking my body what’s going on, babe? You know, searching for the “answer,” I got dressed in my cozy sweat pants and added a jacket and bra to my PJs to get ready for work.

I work from home most of the time, and so it was a real commute.

But when I looked in the mirror, I was like ooooh that’s a cute outfit.

Here’s the thing: I don’t get dressed up.

I’m the kinda girl that if you don’t vibe with me based on what I wear, we’re probably not going to vibe in general. Do you relate?

So, since High school, I’ve been a minimal girl. I didn’t want to rely on hour-long morning makeup routines to feel good. I like to pop out of bed, slip some clothes on, and get to it, confident and ready to go.

But this morning I rolled over, turned on a Zoom call, and curled up in bed for two hours until I got up. Like what is this life we live in? But I was in a lot of pain. Once the call ended, I was ready to dive into some internal dialogue about this pain that was getting LOUDER by the minute, but then I looked in the mirror.

“Hot damn I look good.”

So, of course, what does one do when she’s ovulating and feeling hot? She has a quickie….well, it turned into an hour-long quickie…

I pulled out my camera and began to play.

Here’s the thing: I would not have been here had I gone down the rabbit hole of asking why. Yes, I was literally about to pull some tarot cards, meditate, and journal through why this pelvic pain was so strong.

And you know what happened in that span of an hour, the pain literally went away. I turned my pain into art. I turned my pain into power.

That’s an answer.

Hi fellow beauty hunter and plot twist alchemist, I’m Lumalia, author, teacher, and photographer here at Celebrate Again. I’m on a mission to help more of humanity experience what I call the plot twist moment, the moment where we shift from reacting to life, like when we are in pain and stepping into co-creation with life like I did when I was once diagonised with autoimmune diseases and had my life turned upside down but found that I was the one who got to decided that my life got to be more than being a patient, sworn I couldn’t ever heal. (More of that inside Blooming Upside Down)

How do you Turn Your Pain into Art?

You let it be your muse. You let your pain be the source of your inspiration.

It means you have to first detach from your pain in that it means something wrong with us. Which is best done by feeling. Go read this article on how feel our feelings.

And then when you’re in the juice of your feelings, in the depths of it, that’s where ALL good artist create.

And it doesn’t even have to be pain. Have you ever listned to a love song?

The best art comes from our emotions, from our feelings.

Sounds simple, but the trick is the more you pratice the easier it becomes.

Want to come to learn how to turn your paint into art, turn your pain into your power?

Often in pain we ask how do I get ride of this, but what if instead you let it be your muse. Which is exactly what I lead you through inside Flirting with the Void, because your pain really doesn’t want answers; they want you flirting back.

Ready to come play?

A 3-day experience to release the pressure to figure “it” out — and find your muse instead.

Read more about the experience Flirting with the Void here

What if the unknown wasn’t something to wrestle… but to flirt with?

What if the not-knowing, the in-between, the ache — were invitations? What if you could stop trying to solve your life and instead seduce the mystery back into motion?

This is Flirting with the Void — a 3-day creative-spiritual experience to soften the pressure to “figure it out” and rediscover the muse that’s been whispering underneath your uncertainty.

Whether your “it” is a relationship, a symptom, a creative block, or a life crossroads — come exactly as you are.

Beginning November 3-5 with a live Salon on Novemeber 6, 2025 at 1:30pm PST

How did I turn my pain into my power?

Pain often is associated with something wrong. It gets our attention, right?

But when we see our pain as something to interact with instead of dull down, ignore, or even disregard we come into relationship with it and then even inspiration.

When you go study any great person in power it’s because they first learned how to follow their visionary ideas, their inner muse.

And often it was once their greatest pain.

Which is what I did inside my book Blooming Upside Down

Step one: Interact instead of React

Like the greats, they begin in observation and then go into creation. Yet creating art from your pain isn’t done by just making art or just observing. It’s sitting with it, asking what it needs, having conversations, like you would with a friend. Letting it express its self.

Not sure where to even begin consider The Journey In

Step Two: Express

Expressing your pain with a medium of art, drawing, painting, writing, creating video, skits, plays, dancing, blending a tea, blending colors together, coloring. Is the magic of where you begin to make art.

Ready to go it with me as your guide into a 3 day experience? Turning your pain into your power is what I know will happen inside the three-day experience of Flirting with the Void, diving in today.

What does turning your pain into your power mean?

When you slip past reaction, and step into interaction with your pain you step into what’s called the observer mode. In quatum physics we know that when our atoms are observed they change, they collapse into matter.

So when we are in pain the pain is asking us to say “this matters.”

And often we get in reaction to that, but what if you interacted? Like I mentioned above the first step to turning pain into your power is shifting from reaction to interaction.

However, a lot of us need practice at giving ourselves permission even to feel our emotions before we can interact. (You may find this How to Control Your Feelings article really helpful.)

But if you’re ready to get practice, to get encouragement at turning your paint into power and art come join me inside Flirting with the Void

A 3-day experience to release the pressure to figure “it” out — and find your muse instead.

Read more about the experience Flirting with the Void here

What if the unknown wasn’t something to wrestle… but to flirt with?

What if the not-knowing, the in-between, the ache — were invitations? What if you could stop trying to solve your life and instead seduce the mystery back into motion?

Whether your “it” is a relationship, a symptom, a creative block, or a life crossroads — come exactly as you are.

Beginning November 3-5 with a live Salon on Novemeber 6, 2025 at 1:30pm PST

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Hey, I’m Lumalia, photographer, author, certified somatic movement yoga teacher, and the main voice behind Celebrate Again. I call myself a connection architect because I have a deep passion for guiding us all to fall back in love with life through states of beauty, but many of us are far from feeling at home in our own bodies, so we seek to find safety in others.

Yikes, that’s scary, I know; I did that for three decades, too, until I returned home to myself.

I’m so excited to share with you all I’ve learned and this beautiful journey back home to what makes you absolutely stunning just because you are alive today.