So what is Art Therapy anyway?
Is it finding your stash of paints and making a mess on paper? Somewhat. However, Art Therapy adds meaning to the creative expression. It is an outlet for a new language to emerge releasing what is stuck in the body, mind and emotional landscape.
Can you remember a time when you were emotionally choked up and words could not escape? Or, you couldn’t find the words to explain what can sometimes be the unexplainable?
“A loss of words”, is the saying.
Traumatic experiences or what we call the ‘Mack truck of life’; a whirlwind of changing events (divorce/ illness/ a loved one passes) neatly packed into a small window of time can lodge fragmented experiences in the mind.
It is these fragments that yearn to be retold gifting a new perspective for healing.
You have the power
Art Therapy allows the fragments to be safely explored and provides the ability to reframe your story for an empowering process of healing and liberation.
In order to know the light, we must experience the darkness.
Carl Jung
To see an Art Therapist is a way to offload the conflicted mind constructed thoughts for higher meaning. An Art Therapist will stand by you as you retell your struggles, as you know it, and witness a change of energetics as you transform through the artist tool of expression.
You essentially lighten the load through artistic expression and shine a light on who you truly are, soul wrapped up in a body.
As all emotions can be processed safely without any imposed inhibitions.
The journey is the renewal.
It’s like when you see someone leaving the ocean from a swim and they flick their long hair over their shoulders with a spray of water released back into the vast ocean.
The Art Therapy process can be likened to this act of releasing what is not essential and transmuting it for inner wisdom.
How refreshing that creative engagement is not consolidated to the therapy room and can be explored as an outlet whenever you like. A space to reduce stress, quiet the mind, explore possibility and add joy to your life.
Creating ritual, sacred space. A space for you.
If you have something on your mind that you would like to unpack and transform in Art Therapy check out Amanda Scott Art Therapy here
If you are wanting to create an open diary of creative explorations and meeting your inner muse check into our upcoming Intuitive Art as Medicine eCourse
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