“According to an old Native American proverb, there are two wolves in each of us. The good wolf, and the bad wolf. And whichever one we feed is the one that will survive.  

I myself have fed both. I’ve fed the bad wolf to the point that I was living like one. I treated everything and everyone like a potential meal. Until eventually my journey with the bad wolf led me to prison. It wasn’t in prison that I found the other wolf, but it was in prison that I learned to care about it.

My experience on the inside has shown me how to nurture a side of me that had always been there. And its because of that nurturing that I’ve been trying to show others that’s its ok to feed the good wolf…”

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Welcome to “Creative Works,” a regular feature written by Erika Loseman, Fortune’s Licensed Art Therapist. Erika will post explorations of the themes around which her art class is organized, vignettes about her talented students and the class, and photos of the colorful and expressive art participants create. The following is an introduction to what Erika’s art class is all about.