freedom is possible
you are not alone.
A sacred creative ritual for healing and restoration.A practice born in grief, rooted in resilience, and offered in love.
About
Draw Your Soul Free is a creative ritual for healing and transformation.Born from grief, inside a jail cell, this practice began as a way to survive unbearable loss—and slowly, to heal. Through image, word, and breath, it became a path back to my soul.Today, Draw Your Soul Free lives on as a sacred offering—for those impacted by incarceration, for those living with deep loss, for those finding their way back to themselves. We gather in quiet circles, in poetry, in sacred reflection, to draw out what lives within us and imagine new ways of being.This work invites you to remember your wholeness, to express what has no name, and to step gently into creative restoration. Healing is possible, even in the most unlikely places.Draw Your Soul Free is dedicated to the women of Ingham County Jail.
You are never forgotten. You are part of this work, always.
From practice to pathway.
Draw Your Soul Free began as a sacred survival practice against the forces of isolation and despair.Now, in sacred partnership with the Human Kindness Foundation, it is finding new pathways to reach those still behind the walls. Together, we are weaving Draw Your Soul Free into a self-paced video course, a creative healing workbook, and new offerings to support facilitators, mentors, and changemakers.Currently shared through the Edovo platform in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers across the U.S., Draw Your Soul Free is becoming a traveling sanctuary—carried in hearts and hands, wherever the need for transformation calls.At the heart of this work is a shared vision: to nurture healing, hope, and spiritual resilience in every place freedom is still being fought for.
Sacred circles for restoration.
Creation is survival.
In a world that tries to erase us, making art, writing truth, and speaking our stories out loud becomes an act of defiance.
Draw Your Soul Free is a testament to that grit—the stubborn will to keep breathing, creating, and remembering when everything says you shouldn’t.
Healing doesn’t happen in silence. It happens when we make the invisible visible.
It happens when we sit in circle, name our grief, celebrate our survival, and refuse to let our stories die inside us.
Wherever there are walls—seen or unseen—this work lights a way through.
For the freedom seekers.
Draw Your Soul Free is for those impacted by incarceration, systemic injustice, trauma, or profound loss.
It’s for the ones who carry invisible scars, who are rebuilding lives in the aftermath of breaking.
It’s for anyone seeking not just healing, but liberation—of voice, spirit, memory, and belonging.
This work is a call to reclaim beauty from the ruins, to honor every story that was silenced, and to weave new sanctuaries from the strength of what endures.
collective movement.
Draw Your Soul Free was born in a circle of women writing their way toward freedom—across concrete floors and steel tables, across grief, rage, tenderness, and stubborn hope.
It is not the story of one person, but of the unbreakable human impulse to create, to heal, and to remember ourselves whole.
Today, even as some voices remain behind bars, the spirit of this work lives on—through every act of sacred creativity, every poem, every prayer, every breath of resistance.
This is a collective movement: a reclamation of voice, of soul, of liberation.
We write. We remember. We rise.
Until every one of us is free.
Watch. Read. Share.
Art as ritual. Healing as resistance.
This is more than a project—it’s a practice. A call back to the self through story, breath, and image. Offered as a short video and printable PDF, this resource is for those doing the work of healing—inside and outside carceral systems. Use it in personal reflection, share it in circles, bring it into classrooms, jails, or reentry spaces.→Links to download a PDF and video format of Draw Your Soul Free are available below.This resource is offered freely, rooted in love and solidarity. If it moves you or supports your work, donations are welcome.
Ways You Can Support and Amplify This Work
Draw Your Soul Free is a living, breathing offering—and its unfolding depends on many hands and hearts. This work is rooted in the belief that healing, liberation, and creative restoration are not solitary paths. Every act of support—whether financial, relational, or spiritual—helps carry it forward. I cannot do this alone. Together, we tend the soil where new life grows.
Download and practice with the video and PDF for personal or communal healing.
Share the resource with friends, family, educators, organizers, and community spaces.
Write or reflect on how the work impacts you—testimonials nourish and strengthen its reach.
Invite collaborations —workshops, speaking engagements, podcast conversations, and more.
Spread the word on social media, newsletters, and within networks committed to justice and restoration.
Give directly
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Your generosity helps bring Draw Your Soul Free into spaces of deep need—supporting the creation of video courses, printed materials, and healing-centered offerings for people impacted by incarceration.
Fund the development of healing-centered digital and print resources.
Support access to free creative programming inside prisons and reentry spaces.
Help build a sustainable foundation for restorative art and justice initiatives.
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For those who wish to walk alongside the unfolding, I offer reflections, poetry, and behind-the-scenes glimpses through my Buy Me a Coffee page. Every contribution is a love offering, helping sustain this work as it grows.
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Support the slow, steady weaving of programs, workshops, and new offerings.
Walk in solidarity with a vision of healing, dignity, and creative freedom for all.
meet anyakara
A voice for healing, justice, and the wild sanctity of life.
anyakara is a poet, restorative justice practitioner, and facilitator living in Lansing, Michigan, on Anishinaabe land. She is the creator of Draw Your Soul Free, a visual memoir written while incarcerated, now being adapted into a creative reentry program and digital course for people in prison. Her work centers healing after traumatic loss, the liberatory power of art, and justice rooted in compassion. anyakara is a peer re-entry mentor, leads therapeutic writing circles, bibliotherapy groups, and supports facilitators bringing creativity into carceral spaces. Her offerings are a continuation of love — carried forward for the ones no longer here, yet ever present.
Weaving story, spirit, and solidarity into every offering
Rooted in radical hope: creating pathways of healing and liberation
Carrying love forward—for the ones we lost, and the ones still fighting
Speaking, Workshops & Collaborative Opportunities
anyakara is available for keynotes, panel discussions, podcast interviews, and workshop facilitation on topics including creative healing, restorative justice, grief work, and art as a tool for transformation.If you’re seeking a voice and presence rooted in lived experience, resilience, and community care, let’s connect.
Creative Reentry Workshops: Transformative writing and art sessions for individuals impacted by incarceration.
Restorative Justice & Grief Healing Talks: Keynotes and discussions centered on compassion, resilience, and repair.
Training for Facilitators: Equipping leaders to bring creative, trauma-informed practices into carceral and reentry spaces.
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I read every message and would be honored to hear from you—your voice and presence matter.
The path is unfolding, and we are walking it together.
Thank you
To every soul who has loved, encouraged, and believed in me—your presence has been a light through the hardest seasons. To those who see the vision of Draw Your Soul Free and continue to nurture its unfolding, your support is the soil in which this work grows and thrives. This is not a path walked alone. Every word, every breath, every offering is carried forward by a community of fierce, tender hearts. I am endlessly grateful to walk this journey with you.