Rosabel Unscripted Podcast | Featuring Debra Hillard
Art is more than a visual experience—it’s a language of healing and soul connection. In this episode of the Rosabel Unscripted podcast, artist and healer Debra Hillard shares her transformative journey through self-expression, spirituality, and recovery. From rebuilding her strength to creating sacred fabric pieces called Wraptures, Debra shows how creativity can become a path back to self.
1. Identity and the Power of Creation
Debra doesn’t separate her life from her creative work. At her core, she identifies as a healer—and the mediums she uses help bring that role to life. Her calling wasn’t strategic or planned. Instead, it was a return to an ancient thread within her, inviting her to become a spiritual guide and conduit through expression.
2. Rebirth Through Dismemberment
One of Debra’s most powerful insights is the shamanic concept of dismemberment—a symbolic death of self to make space for new truth. Her healing process involved multiple transformations, brought about by trauma and illness. Each time, creative expression became her way to reassemble what was lost and step into something more authentic.
3. The Body as a Medium for Healing
Though never a competitive bodybuilder, Debra turned to physical training to save her life after battling Chronic Fatigue. Her recovery became a sacred journey, and movement itself became a language for healing. Her clients often found emotional release through simple exercises, revealing how the body stores energy and how creativity can live in motion.
4. Wraptures: Sacred Textiles for the Soul
Debra’s line of intuitive fabric creations, known as Wraptures, emerged during her recovery from breast cancer. The first piece combined her painting with hand-sewn beadwork. Though newer designs no longer include embellishment, the heart of Wraptures remains the same: creating comforting, spiritual pieces that offer a sense of safety, presence, and transformation.
5. Creativity and Spirit: Inseparable Forces
Debra believes there’s no true divide between creative expression and spirituality. Whether someone grows plants, cooks meals, nurtures relationships, or paints on canvas—they are channeling their spirit. “We’re all creating every single day,” she says. “It’s just a matter of recognizing the form your creativity takes.”
6. Living Life Unscripted
To live artistically is to live unscripted. Debra has let go of titles, plans, and external expectations to embrace life as an unfolding process. “Now everything that comes to me is soul-directed,” she shares. This deeply aligns with the vision behind Rosabel Unscripted: living with curiosity, openness, and intuitive trust.
7. Reconnecting with Your Creative Self
If you feel disconnected from your inner voice, Debra suggests starting with reflection. Consider what you’ve already created in your life—a friendship, a home, a moment of kindness. From there, open the door to more. The first step is believing you are, and always have been, a creator.
Explore Debra’s Work
Debra’s book, Remembering Myself: A Journey Through the Threads of Time, will be released soon. She has been featured in numerous magazines and anthologies. You can follow her journey and learn more about her work at:
- Main Website: dkhillard.com
- Art Portfolio: dkhillardart.com
- Soul Portraits & Wraptures Overview
- Instagram: @dkhillard
- YouTube: Debra Hillard Channel
- Facebook: Art Page
- Facebook: Wraptures Page
- Facebook: Personal Profile
- LinkedIn: Debra Hillard
Work with Debra
You can also work directly with Debra as a sacred guide. Whether through image, word, or energy, everything she creates is an invitation to come home to yourself—to listen, to feel, and to remember who you are. Her presence offers a powerful opportunity to reconnect with your essence.
Internal Resources You’ll Love:
- The Courage to Succeed: My Story of Belonging and Becoming
- More Rosabel Unscripted Podcast Episodes
- 7 Powerful Truths About Trauma That Will Transform How You Heal
Final Thoughts
Debra Hillard reminds us that healing doesn’t follow a linear path. Whether through fabric, movement, storytelling, or silence, we each have the power to rediscover our creative force. The tools are already within us—we simply need to trust their voice.
If something stirred in you today, honor it. Let it move through you. Let it guide you. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll find that your life is already a masterpiece in progress.
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