I’m Stephanie Chinn (my last name is actually German — interesting, right?!). I’m the best-selling author of Here Sister, Let Me Help You Up, a therapeutic arts practitioner, and the founder of Step Into Your Magic, where I host women’s retreats designed to remind you just how deeply and inherently magical you are. But most importantly, I am an artist, just like you. I believe we are all inherently creative, that self-expression isn’t just a self-regulation tool, it is also an essential for us to witness magic stored deep within us.
Everything I create — from my therapeutic arts workshops and retreats to my illustrations, community offerings, and products, are all rooted in one intention: to help women come home to themselves, or maybe find home within themselves for the very first time. Through creativity, reflection, and community, I help women unlearn people-pleasing, reconnect to their voice, and take up space unapologetically — in their emotions, their experiences, and even in making bad art.
As women, we give so much of our lives to others. In my spaces, we give our lives back to ourselves.
Because you were never meant to be shrink, you are here to be seen, felt, and fully alive in your own magic.
Also that cutie is Olive. My little companion. xo
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Good Girls Make Bad ART is now live!
Does this sound like you...
You’ve spent your whole life being the “good girl.” The one who says yes, makes others comfortable, and does everything "just right." You deeply want to be seen as a good human. However, you have started to notice that this doesn't come without a price. There is a deep, sacred part of you that longs to be free—to create without self-judgment, to make a mess, to express yourself in ways that feel wild and true.
This 4-week virtual (over zoom) course is your invitation to step into that freedom. Through gentle, therapeutic art-making, self-reflection, and a nurturing community, we’ll unlearn the conditioning that has kept you small and reconnect (or connect with for the first time) with the creative, expressive, and powerful woman inside you.
No art experience is needed—this is about the process, not the product. We use art as the modality -- but you don't have to be, aspire, or identify with being an artist. Although you may by the end. Therapeutic arts has a way of bringing up hidden gems deep within us. My life, and my work is a reflection of that truth. Take a chance on yourself, and join me.
