Creative Contributors
The Negative Space would like to thank our creative contributors for being part of the story.
Justin Bajema
Justin Bajema is the co-host of the In Sickness podcast with Allison Breininger. He lives in Lynden, WA.
allison breininger
Allison Breininger is the Founder and Executive Director of The Negative Space and has been a caregiver for her husband since 2011. She had the idea for The Storyline long ago and has been working behind the scenes for years to make it a reality.
anne jenkins
Anne Jenkins is the Graphic Designer who has helped make The Negative Space beautiful from the very beginning.
Maddie johnson, lmft, atr-bc
Maddie Johnson created the Creative Expression activities for The Storyline. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Board Certified Art Therapist, owner of Heart Space Therapy and a small art studio called Heart Space. Maddie has a passion for meeting people where they are and getting them the support they need. As a relational therapist with a systems lens and a mind-body focus, Maddie approaches therapy in a unique and collaborative way. She offers individual, family, and couples therapy services, as well as workshops and presentations focused largely on connecting people to their creativity.
Heart Space is a process forward studio meant to support mind-body connection and healing through art and movement. Heart Space also travels to businesses to offer unique team building and creative wellness workshops focused on mitigating burnout and increasing connection.
Heart Space can be found the following ways: Instagram: @heart.space.artstudio
Website: www.heartspacetherapy.org Email: maddie@heartspacetherapy.org
jill levenhagen
Jill Levenhagen built our website. She lives with her family in St. Charles, Illinois. She can’t stop being creative and applies that to everything in life. Most of her time is spent leading the ministry LUTHERWOMAN. For Jill’s web services and her blog, visit www.jilllevenhagen.com
mello
RB-visual’s, a professional videography company dedicated to capturing compelling visuals that tell your story, provided audio and visual support for The Storyline. Whether it’s for businesses, events, or personal projects, they bring creativity, high-quality production, and attention to detail to every shoot.
priscilla momah
Priscilla Momah wrote an original song and sound bath for The Storyline. She is a Twin Cities-based singer-songwriter, certified yoga instructor, and sound healing practitioner dedicated to curating soulful embodiment experiences that fuse music, movement, and mindfulness. Through Coco Womb Wellness, she offers Thai yoga bodywork, Reiki, breathwork, and sound baths, weaving these modalities together to create transformative healing spaces. Rooted in her Nigerian American heritage and years of experience as a musician and holistic practitioner, Priscilla’s work invites individuals to cultivate deep care for themselves. Learn more about Priscilla at www.cocowombwellness.com.
rodolfo nieto
Rodolfo Nieto performed the guided meditations for The Storyline. He is a singer, actor, and songwriter who works primarily in musical theater, classical music, and Latin American music in the Twin Cities and abroad. He is also a caregiver for his spouse who struggles with a physical and mental illness. In 2024, he performed an original work, “The Unseen Divide – A Personal Passage from a Spousal Caregiver,” in which he sang about many of the honest feelings he has had while caring for his wife. You can see and hear that performance, and many others, on his YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/@rodolfonieto8604 and learn more at www.rodolfo-nieto.com.
Jacqueline vlietstra
Jacqueline Vlietstra wrote the guided meditations for The Storyline and wrote and recorded the therapeutic yoga practices included. She is a certified yoga therapist with over fifteen years of experience teaching yoga. Her work is rooted in the belief that everyone has the potential to thrive, regardless of their unique circumstances or challenges. Jacqueline’s yoga therapy sessions meet online, which enables her to connect with clients near and far from her Minneapolis home base. She offers a distinctive blend of yoga, somatics, and nervous system-based practices to support her clients’ physical and mental well-being. Jacqueline has brought therapeutic yoga to hundreds of students in a variety of public and private settings, including eating disorder treatment and addiction recovery programs, college campuses, and yoga studios. She is certified as C-IAYT (Certified Yoga Therapist) with the International Association of Yoga Therapists and as E-RYT (Experienced Yoga Instructor) and YACEP (Continuing Education Provider) with Yoga Alliance. She has served as a faculty mentor at Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute, where she obtained her 1000-hour yoga therapy certification in 2022. Please visit yogaforresilience.com to work with Jacqueline or to learn more about her whole-person approach to well-being.