Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Kelly Slaney Before we get into the details of Art Therapy; A little background on how I came to find it myself. If truth be told, I suffer with a multitude of mental health ailments. Anxiety and occasional low mood have been around so long, they’re like old Continue Reading
If a picture paints a thousand words | Then I must learn to draw, | ‘Cause you don’t seem to hear my words | Or know what I chose them for.
Art can promote thoughts and considerations that may disturb, placate, or stimulate a person. Art is not solely beauty or positivity.
I have discovered the healing power of drawing. I’m here today through my recovery journey using drawing. Drawing saved my life. Now I want to teach others.
The way out of the toxic comfort zone that was killing me has taken me years, and yet here I am, safe and sound. Am I Jekyll or am I Hyde?
The key to keeping the demons at bay is to build your very own art studio in your dark, lonely home. Create your own weapons against depression.
It gets better, it gets worse and it gets better again. Re-animate yourself and keep fighting, I believe in you. Follow your passion.
Fear and breathing, ah how they are so interconnected. Breathe in faith I once heard, and breathe out fear. I will keep pushing.
By Anonymous Josh, I’m sorry for using your story to tell mine. Thank you for your wonderful art and for helping give shape to my thoughts. I know this won’t help you get better, but maybe it will make me improve so I can buy your books and/or help somebody Continue Reading
By Khali Raymond Living with Asperger’s is not an easy feat. It never is. Imagine yourself in a room full of people. All of those people are laughing and mingling. Meanwhile, you aren’t. You’re sitting there in the corner all alone, watching everyone make nice with each other. Nobody even Continue Reading
By Paul Jameson It’s been a funny old week. Ups and downs you might say. The Beauty of Mental Illness The down was at the beginning of the week. Less a down and more a frightening annoyance, I had a funny turn on my daily walk. It was quite a Continue Reading
By Sara-Jane Morphew I have always been a creative person, and have always known myself as one. Fairly early on in my counselling sessions, it became clear that my creative personality was being ignored. I wasn’t expressing my creativity day to day, and I needed to. This meant that I Continue Reading