Meet Gaffney Taylor

Today we’re excited to be connecting with Gaffney Taylor again. If you haven’t already, we suggest you check out our prior conversation with them here.

Gaffney, thanks for joining us again. Just to level set a bit for folks who may have missed our last interview together, can you briefly introduce yourself?
I am Gaffney Taylor, CEO and founder of Here There Be Healing, an innovative arts and wellness business in Atlanta, GA founded in 2025. Our mission is to create a transformative space where individuals can explore their creative potential while processing emotions and trauma through artistic and psychic expression. I envision a world where creativity becomes a tool for healing, empowerment, and self discovery.

Through my personal journey of healing— exploring DBT, CBT, breath work, manifestation, and spiritual practices— I realized that artistic expression combined with psychic healing modalities is a powerful tool for transformation. Here There Be Healing was founded to share this integrative approach with others, providing a safe space for creativity, personal growth, and emotional healing. As a multi-passionate entrepreneur specializing in blending creative writing, photography, fine art, and psychic skills together to facilitate a unique creative experience for clients, I strongly believe that thinking out of the box can spark unique ideas noteworthy of taking action on.

The highlights of my journey have been nothing short of a mix of extraordinary moments and hardships. I have achieved two degrees in photography, an MFA in creative writing, a certification as a spiritual life coach, and have begun a certification as a ICF accredited FLOW expressive Arts Healing Coach, while handling mental health struggles and celebrating being sober for four years now. The more I journey forth, the stronger my calling is to heal others through my own experiences of pain, with a dedication to quality content and expertise. The critical moment that put me on this journey was a winter night of solitude after tough heartbreak. I had taken an art class that week and instead of journaling about my feelings in a traditional way, I used art, words, and my intuition to process the heartbreak visually. An immediate release of negativity left my system and since then, the heartbreak has not come back up to bother me mentally or psychically, compared to old traumas still circling back around in conversations with traditional therapy.

I’ve always been the kind of person to chuck the status quo out the window when it comes to what to wear and how to live my life. Why should I limit myself in the pursuit of knowledge with my career to one area of employment? Why can’t I have a shaved, dyed head as a woman? Why can’t I wear colorful, unique clothes? There’s a freedom to owning your authenticity which makes life so rich and beautiful. My fearlessness to not settle for less than what will fulfill me as a person and to impact the world in a positive way helps set my creative pursuits apart from others, especially given that I am multi-passionate and combine so many different creative forms into my business.

Alright, so our main goal today is to give our audience an update on what you have been up to since our last conversation. We’d love to hear how things are going and what you are most looking forward to or excited about these days.
What has made the most notable difference in my journey since we last connected is understanding how becoming multi-passionate can be used to heal myself and others. I create space for people to express and understand themselves on a deeper emotional level. Each modality I work with informs the other, and I like to work with clients holistically, forming a connected mind, heart, body, and spirit experience, believing that creativity and intuition are necessary components for everyone to use to their advantage in a society where left brain thinking is often over valued. When I tell you the number of times writing, drawing, painting, and connecting with the divine has provided a sense of inner peace and released emotional turmoil in my darkest moments, it truly has.

Fiction writing can help people process challenging moments from a distance, putting yourself in your characters’ shoes and relating to the work but not reliving the experience through the narrative. Poetry can teach others how to be rawer and more dramatic, connecting to the parts of them that yearn to be understood and have more emotional depth. Photography has taught me personally the value of collaboration and making meaningful memories. Drawing and painting calms the senses with the repetitive motion of pencil or paint on paper.

The spiritual aspect of my career has taught me how to bring healing to people in a way I never thought of. Working as a psychic medium and spiritual life coach, people often say there’s a lightness and weight off their chest after working through their struggles, and I’m honored to have that effect on them. Deepening my psychic skills has also taught me how to make intuitive art decisions in the creation process and open myself up to a creative flow that allows deep imagination to come naturally. I need learning and self-growth in my life like birds need an open sky to fly, and plants need sunlight to survive. In the current world, people need healing more than ever, and my ultimate goal is to heal positively but not ignorantly. Rose-colored glasses only drive you mad, and not the good kind of creative genius mad. For years, I repeated the same cycles of procrastination and then burnout, but the tides are turning, and sometimes all it takes is a willingness to dig into intuitive guidance and a creative edge.

Alright, so let’s do something a bit more fast-paced and lighthearted. We call this our lightning round and we’ll ask you a few quick questions.

Favorite Movie: A Real Pain. The character dialogue is beautiful and so heartfelt.

Favorite Book: The Eternal Ones of the Dream by James Tate

Favorite TV Show: The Vampire Diaries

Favorite Band or Artist: Noah Kahan

Sweet or Savory: Sweet

Mountains or Beach: Beach

Favorite Sport (to watch): Gymnastics

Favorite Sport (to play): Roller Skating

Did you play sports growing up (if so which ones): I was a springboard and platform diver for 10 years

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up: I wanted to be an olympian

French Fries or Onion Rings: French fries

Chuck Rhodes or Bobby Axelrod: I’m unfamiliar with Billions

Favorite Cartoon growing up: Looney Tunes

Favorite Childhood movie: The Little Mermaid

Favorite Breakfast Food: Smoothies

What do you want people to remember about you and your brand? What are some of things that you feel are most important, unique, special, etc?
Experimentation with the creative process is vital for breakthroughs, and people are often afraid of creative pursuits because they don’t think what they create will be good enough. They become so caught up in their fears that their ability to express themselves, heal, and be intuitive shuts down. My goal is to create resources and environments where that is negated, positive experiences can shine through, and people blossom into their best and most authentic, healed selves.

Instagram: @renaissancegaff

Image Credits
Models: Ashley Dawson, Jonah Angel Glaude, and Christell Foote