My name is Lisa Holzl and this is my journey to 1 drop 2 wellness.
Happy New Year 2021: I have been busy during Covid creating murals and window art. It was fun being able to do something creative outdoors. 2021 is here and I am showing for the month of January at Water Street Studios in Batavia, IL. I do not know how this year will go; I am excited to find out.
COVID-19 2020: Giant HALT to all things I love. I was teaching art at two different schools and teaching at the studio. SHELTER IN PLACE, cancelled all of my income. I turned my dining room into my studio. I know I am not the only one affected. But, this was my JOY. My EXPRESSIONS. My EMOTIONS. My RELEASE. My...
2019: Time to update you. I have a studio at WATER STREET STUDIOS, Batavia, IL. I've been there since 2019. My own space, YES. I moved out of my basement. I haven't stopped painting. I love creating from the heart. I listen to WORSHIP MUSIC during my times of arting. It is such a great release to my emotions.
Many commissions have been completed. Many paintings have been sold.
UPDATE 09/08/18: Wow, a lot has happened since I have shared my story. I continue to fight daily and do my best to stay strong physically and mentally. I have had a few more surgeries; hysterectomy (lupus related), a plate in my neck (not autoimmune related), and other simpler procedures. I have developed FIBROMYALGIA after my neck surgery.
Learning a new disease and living with my current ones, was a difficult road. I had to read up on fibro and everyone is affected differently. My body was in so much pain, I did not know what to do. I was in pain if the wind blew and touched my skin. Medication has helped a lot. Listening to my body and taking rests helped.
2017. In the summer of 2017, I began an art journal. I found this to take me away from my pain and focus more on Jesus as I listen to worship music. My journaling grew to painting and showing my art in my church. This outlet opened up something inside me, I did not know I had. All in God's timing.
I painted in my basement for almost a year. Now, visit me at Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL. I am in Studio 17.
I have since sold many paintings and done many commissions.
2009. I am going to go way back to 2009. I was pregnant with my 3rd child, who was born a month early (and healthy). A month later my left eye started to swell and it swelled shut. Many doctors got it biopsied and they found precancerous cells. I had surgery and radiation while homeschooling and raising a newborn. That first year was crazy, insane, depressing, sad, painful, lonely, etc!
Again, many doctors later, I found out that I had lupus. LUPUS!?! What is that? It is an autoimmune disease. The best way to explain it is: If a healthy person gets sick, your body helps to heal you; when I get sick...LUPUS runs rampage and makes me sicker. I don't even have to be sick for my body to attack me. Yes, this totally sucks. Yes, my body sometimes is against me. And there's NOTHING I can do. I am always fighting, unless... I go into REMISSION. I pray for remission, daily, monthly, yearly.
Since, 2009, I have had 8 surgeries and countless procedures. I continue to struggle. I have battled depression, I have developed asthma, Raynaud's disease and Neuropathy, since my initial diagnosis. Did I tell you LUPUS sucks? I continue to faithfully/daily fight for my health. Go ahead and click on the photos below.
COVID-19 2020: Giant HALT to all things I love. I was teaching art at two different schools and teaching at the studio. SHELTER IN PLACE, cancelled all of my income. I turned my dining room into my studio. I know I am not the only one affected. But, this was my JOY. My EXPRESSIONS. My EMOTIONS. My RELEASE. My...
2019: Time to update you. I have a studio at WATER STREET STUDIOS, Batavia, IL. I've been there since 2019. My own space, YES. I moved out of my basement. I haven't stopped painting. I love creating from the heart. I listen to WORSHIP MUSIC during my times of arting. It is such a great release to my emotions.
Many commissions have been completed. Many paintings have been sold.
UPDATE 09/08/18: Wow, a lot has happened since I have shared my story. I continue to fight daily and do my best to stay strong physically and mentally. I have had a few more surgeries; hysterectomy (lupus related), a plate in my neck (not autoimmune related), and other simpler procedures. I have developed FIBROMYALGIA after my neck surgery.
Learning a new disease and living with my current ones, was a difficult road. I had to read up on fibro and everyone is affected differently. My body was in so much pain, I did not know what to do. I was in pain if the wind blew and touched my skin. Medication has helped a lot. Listening to my body and taking rests helped.
2017. In the summer of 2017, I began an art journal. I found this to take me away from my pain and focus more on Jesus as I listen to worship music. My journaling grew to painting and showing my art in my church. This outlet opened up something inside me, I did not know I had. All in God's timing.
I painted in my basement for almost a year. Now, visit me at Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL. I am in Studio 17.
I have since sold many paintings and done many commissions.
2009. I am going to go way back to 2009. I was pregnant with my 3rd child, who was born a month early (and healthy). A month later my left eye started to swell and it swelled shut. Many doctors got it biopsied and they found precancerous cells. I had surgery and radiation while homeschooling and raising a newborn. That first year was crazy, insane, depressing, sad, painful, lonely, etc!
Again, many doctors later, I found out that I had lupus. LUPUS!?! What is that? It is an autoimmune disease. The best way to explain it is: If a healthy person gets sick, your body helps to heal you; when I get sick...LUPUS runs rampage and makes me sicker. I don't even have to be sick for my body to attack me. Yes, this totally sucks. Yes, my body sometimes is against me. And there's NOTHING I can do. I am always fighting, unless... I go into REMISSION. I pray for remission, daily, monthly, yearly.
Since, 2009, I have had 8 surgeries and countless procedures. I continue to struggle. I have battled depression, I have developed asthma, Raynaud's disease and Neuropathy, since my initial diagnosis. Did I tell you LUPUS sucks? I continue to faithfully/daily fight for my health. Go ahead and click on the photos below.
My eyes are set on JESUS. Jesus is first for everything that I do. Without Jesus...I can tell you, that I would be telling you a different story.
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Information found on this site is meant for educational and informational purposes only, and to motivate you to make your own health care and dietary decisions based upon your own research and in partnership with your health care provider. It should not be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis or courses of treatment.