Who is Briwolf?

• School-of-hard-knocks grunt, invisible illness warrior, 8/10 Childhood Trauma ACE Score

• OIF Combat Medic working toward becoming an Art Therapist & Acupuncturist

• American heritage: Nigerian, Ukrainian, and Pennsylvania Dutch/German roots

What her work does

• Manifests her best wishes, faces her fears, wrestles with grief

• Rewrites nightmares as dreams, gives purpose to pain, heals her inner child

• Raises awareness of adulting literacy (medical, financial, historical, political, love) and the oppression of illiteracy

• Centers hopeful resiliency and positive psychology

Mediums, and what each one teaches

• Clay — grounds trauma in the earth, fires it into freedom; hands remember what minds forget

• Kintsugi — declares fractures as sites of strength; honors scars as the most valuable part of the story

• Suminagashi — floating ink teaches flow over control, the dance with chaos instead of the fight against it

• Printmaking — repetition and variation; patterns can shift while essence remains

• Mixed-media collage — reconstructing identity after trauma, fragments into coherent wholes

• Poetry & screenplays — voice for what the body knows but language struggles to speak

• Playwriting — stages the invisible, demands audiences witness what society prefers to ignore

• Songwriting — melody as medicine

Her stance as an artist

• Refuses the binary of broken or whole; claims the space where limitation births innovation, hardship becomes healing, adaptation becomes art

• Makes visible the invisible wounds of veterans, people with chronic illness, helpers in compassion fatigue, and communities under toxic stress

• Treats art as prescription-strength medicine, not luxury

• Goal: leave light behind, prove resilience is real and hope is a choice is still possible