Let’s Explore Your Inner World
WHO IS ISABELLE RIZO?
Isabelle Rizo is a Chicago-based Medical Art Psychotherapist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, where she works across acute care, the pediatric intensive care unit, neurology, and psychosomatic medicine with medically complex pediatric populations.
Her clinical framework — medical syncretism — integrates neuroscience, art psychotherapy, and ethnographic inquiry through the lens of Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk), centering both biomedical and cultural knowledge systems as equally valid sources of clinical insight. She holds an MA in Counseling and Art Therapy from Adler University and a BA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Isabelle speaks and writes at the intersection of medicine, trauma-informed care, cultural ethnography, and medical humanities. She has presented at Self-Employment in the Arts Conference, the DNX Digital Nomad Conference in Berlin, Lectures on Tap, Show and Tell for Grown-Ups, Pagan Chicago, Le Laptop in Paris, The Visual & Critical Studies Symposium at the School of the Art Institute and more. Her artwork has been exhibited in Prague, Dubai, and Chicago.
Her Romanian and Transylvanian heritage, diasporic background, and grounding in Eastern European folklore and ritual inform a clinical sensibility and art practice that takes culture, symbol, and embodied knowledge seriously — not as a supplement to medicine, but as medicine itself.
MY TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
15+ years of community facilitation, consulting, and International Exhibiting
MA, Counseling & Art Therapy — Adler University
BA Visual & Critical Studies — School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Medical Art Psychotherapist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
Member American Art Therapy Association
Speaker: Art Psychotherapy, Medical Syncretism, Romanian & Diaspora Experience
Get your life admin done. Honor your season.
You know that thing you've been avoiding?
The email.
The appointment.
The paperwork.
The budget.
The application.
The creative project.
The task that would probably take 20 minutes but has somehow been following you around for three months.
Bring it.
Mundane Magic is a monthly accountability community for getting real-life things done without treating yourself like a productivity machine.
Created for ADHD brains, high achievers, chronically ill folks, trauma survivors, creatives, caregivers—and anyone whose capacity changes from day to day.
$33/month • Cancel anytime
You don't need another planner.
You probably don't need another productivity hack, either.
Sometimes you need a place to show up, figure out what actually matters right now, and have enough structure and company to do it.
That's Mundane Magic.
We combine practical accountability with seasonality, creativity, ritual and body-aware practices so you can work with your actual capacity instead of constantly fighting it.
EACH MONTH YOU GET:
Monthly Accountability
Bring the thing you've been avoiding and make actual progress on it.
Your Month Ahead
A simple outline to help you decide what deserves your energy—and what doesn't.
Personal Astrorhythm
A reflective framework for noticing your rhythms and approaching the month intentionally.
Seasonality
Permission and structure to work differently when your energy, body, responsibilities or season changes.
Mundane Magic
Small rituals for bringing intention and meaning into otherwise ordinary tasks.
Your Monthly Materials Guide
Keep it simple: notebook, tea, ear seeds + a few optional supplies.
Private Discord Community
A place for accountability, encouragement, body doubling and celebrating the things you finally did.
All facilitated by Eleanor Foley, acupuncturist + health coach, and Isabelle Rizo, art psychotherapist + artist.
THIS ISN'T ANOTHER PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM.
You don't need to optimize yourself.
You don't have to catch up before joining.
You don't have to complete everything.
You don't have to have a perfect month.
And if you disappear for a while?
You can come back.
Mundane Magic is evergreen because real life is cyclical.
Come as you are.
Bring what needs doing.
Leave having actually done something.
Founding Membership: $33/month
Join anytime. Cancel anytime.
This is an educational and community accountability offering and is not psychotherapy, medical treatment, individualized acupuncture, or a substitute for healthcare.
Contact
Whether you are interested in speaking, consulting, or research, please use the form below, and you will receive a prompt reply about moving forward together.