Holly Madden, MSW - Creativity & Healing

Holly Madden, MSW - Creativity & Healing Ever-evolving artist & mental health professional using creativity and embodiment for therapeutic healing.

Current favorite art practices: photography (my first love), pottery, embroidery

Winter coping & the things we look forward to ❄️🍵🫀❤️‍🔥
13/03/2025

Winter coping & the things we look forward to ❄️🍵🫀❤️‍🔥

Proud to have completed my grad school journey at the end of 2024 and be stepping into 2025 a social worker.I celebrated...
22/01/2025

Proud to have completed my grad school journey at the end of 2024 and be stepping into 2025 a social worker.

I celebrated this milestone with some of my favorite people in the desert, the same place where I began my time in higher education☀️ I am a different person than I was then — more confident in who I am and my values. My perspectives have changed and I have been challenged and shaped by brilliant, creative and kind people from friends, to clients, to colleagues and more.

May I always be open to learning, embracing hope especially when it’s hard, and supporting humans just like myself who all deserve access to care and the ability to thrive.

Catch the last slide to see how and I feel about this new chapter

I am thrilled to introduce my self-portrait series, “Inside BRCA”. The series follows my personal journey with a BRCA2 g...
07/01/2024

I am thrilled to introduce my self-portrait series, “Inside BRCA”. The series follows my personal journey with a BRCA2 genetic mutation and my preventative bilateral mastectomy.

This project is a vulnerable representation marking years of my own process through grief. In this work, I invite you into the process of navigating what it looks like to embrace loss and walk through the dark.

You can view my full portrait series at the link in my bio. If you have been impacted by breast cancer, or cancer of any kind, you are not alone. Reach out if you have questions - as I am able, I would love to be a support.

This time last year, I held a bouquet with a single peony that I found at a local flower shop down the street from our h...
09/05/2023

This time last year, I held a bouquet with a single peony that I found at a local flower shop down the street from our hotel in San Fransisco. For me, the flower came to represent a powerful hope in a time of incredible loss and a moment I had dreaded for years.

For months, and maybe years, prior, I experienced a fear tied to compounding grief that all but swallowed me whole. Cancer sets fire to the same burn wound over and over and over.

On this day last year, I underwent a preventative double mastectomy, reducing my risk of breast cancer from 85% to less than 5%. That day I found immense power in the opportunity to end Cancer’s hereditary cruelty.

Life looks different now. Today I’m a little more aware, a little less scared, and slowly more comfortable with the synchrony of joy and pain.

And today, serendipitously, the first ever peony that I have grown bloomed in front of my home - a place that has held me through the chaos of these years. Though grief endures, as it does for many of us, I’m empowered by the courage, growth, and hope this flower, and this year, represent.

One year ago today, I got to join in the celebration of International Women’s Day with thousands of others through the s...
09/03/2021

One year ago today, I got to join in the celebration of International Women’s Day with thousands of others through the streets of Valencia, Spain. While today may look wildly different than this day, still, women and all that they do and are across the world are so worth celebrating.

Hey guys! Thanks so much for following along - it truly means so much that you're here. I have some exciting projects in...
15/12/2020

Hey guys! Thanks so much for following along - it truly means so much that you're here. I have some exciting projects in the works as well as a website rebrand and can't wait to show you!

In the meantime, you can also find my wedding & couples work at Holly Madden - Wedding & Couples Photography!

Happiest of birthdays to the best guy I know — you’re worth being celebrated now and every day.Images from the last coup...
26/11/2020

Happiest of birthdays to the best guy I know — you’re worth being celebrated now and every day.

Images from the last couple of months: the most challenging, growing, and best adventure yet.

This was what staring into the eye of 2020 looked like in January — and how it felt.Jaw-dropping, mysterious, and thrill...
22/10/2020

This was what staring into the eye of 2020 looked like in January — and how it felt.

Jaw-dropping, mysterious, and thrilling.

And while vastly different than I would have ever expected, it has been a year of purpose and space, which has been mysterious and thrilling in its own way.
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A palace from the 1500s in the center of the old city in Marrakech, Morocco.
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Once upon a quick stop in a very windy San Francisco with my adrenaline ju**ie (scroll to the end) —----- ...
15/10/2020

Once upon a quick stop in a very windy San Francisco with my adrenaline ju**ie (scroll to the end) —
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A moment in time at sunset when Valencia was home for the time being & life was “normal” - whatever that means.Valencia,...
28/09/2020

A moment in time at sunset when Valencia was home for the time being & life was “normal” - whatever that means.

Valencia, Spain - February, 2020

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