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• What Mental Health Means to Me

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 502
  It is Mental Health Awareness month, and I began to contemplate what mental health means to me. Mental health and wellness is the state at which one feels, thinks, and behaves. Mental health can be viewed on a continuum, starting with an individual who is mentally well and free of any impairment in his or her daily ...
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• Making Whole: Healing Through Art: Found Hope (Love,Courage, Peace,...) Guerilla Art

  
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  by Diane Steinbach Making Whole is a bi-monthly art therapy column focused onart to heal.  We have talked about Guerrilla art here before. Basically it is the concept of bringing art into the community in an unexpected way. Usually it involves big, bold artistic statements, but in this case, it is more ...
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• Creating Things That Are Very Imperfect

  
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  What concepts might help someone be more creative? Do you wish you were more creative? Creating things for others is important – even when you know what you will create will be imperfect – flawed or incomplete.  It might be better to create things to please others; rather than to “play it safe” and ...
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• "She is Light: Who I Am But Only That Others Can See" New Major Work In Progress

  
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  I am at it again... creating another big transformative piece. Every 15 months or so, each resident artist at The Banana Factory Arts and Education Center have an opportunity to exhibit their work  in the main corridor inside the front entrance. Last year I went far outside my comfort zone by creating a 5x9 foot ...
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• Making art is more than intention: It’s about communicating with the self

  
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  Shiloh Sophia McCloud – WNN GlobalARTS (WNN) Santa Rosa, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: In the global upsurge of world creatives finding their way to the camera, the canvas, the clay pots as a means of not only creating art but of healing themselves and the world, women are creating art as a tool for personal ...
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• Yo Stigma...

  
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    Good morning! That’s right, I didn’t drop off the face of the Earth, just the face of the interwebs for a few days. But guess what?  I’m baaaaack! .   Actually, I spent the last few days wrestling some of my demons to the ground and making the little bastards cry, “UNCLE!” Then…well, I guess I ...
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• Art Therapy from Real Look Autism

  
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  This video for Real Look Autism.com shows us how a 14 year old boy has really connected with art and art therapy. This video for Real Look Autism.com shows us how a 14 year old boy has really connected with art and art therapy. Conor loves to create elaborate environments and through his art has improved his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thursday Thoughts: Paint Class Health Perks

  
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  In an ode to our explorer mentality we decided to sign up for a paint class. Mind you we have ZERO artistic ability and knew we were likely getting in over our head, but we signed up anyway—canvas in tow. Upon completion of our class at the Art Studio NY, we knew we had to share the healthy benefits of our ...
  3 weeks ago

• Making Whole: Healing Through Art: Wise Word Collage

  
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  by Diane Steinbach Making Whole is a bi-monthly art therapy column focused onart to heal. Those of us who have been through any kind of pain in life, be it a romance ending, a death in the family, a loss of any kind, or even just the habit of internalizing our thoughts and feelings, know that writing ...
  3 weeks ago

• 25 April 2013 Jonathan Harnisch Announces the Official Closing Down of Porcelain Utopia

  
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  25 April 2013 Dear Readers , Plain and simple, it’s come time to put closure to Porcelain Utopia . It’s now set officially as its end and will remain as a free WordPress hosted website. As for Porcelain Utopia , it’s been a fun first 18 months, and as of today 25 April 2013 , 2 years to the day, ...
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• For Writers: There Is No “One Best” Writing Checklist

  
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  I write on days when I don’t feel like writing.  This is because I write primarily to please others.  In this modern age of a “30 second news cycle,” where the “biggest” stories seem to come in and out of view within a day or two, I think many writers confuse “writing” with “news delivery.” ...
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• American Art Therapy Association Conference 2013

  
  Blue Roof Designs - Adventures in Bookbinding — Authority: 115
  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a non-practicing art therapist . I’ve long believed in the healing power of art and my chosen career path as a bookbinder has definitely been influenced by my graduate training. I enjoy knowing that when one of my blank books is purchased, whether a photo album or a journal, it ...
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• Frequently Asked Question: How did you start making mandalas?

  
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  How did you start making mandalas? I had seen a drawing labeled as a mandala on a photo sharing website. It included the description: “this is a meditation i do … begin in the center and work out, breathing and praying, until i think i am finished. must be finished in one sitting.” This was at the ...
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• Arts & Crafts in Psychiatric Occupational Therapy

  
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  The profession of occupational therapy (OT) has many of its roots in the Arts and Crafts Movement, a response to the industrialized production at the end of the nineteenth century which promoted a return to handcrafting (Hussey, Sabonis-Chafee, & O’Brien, 2007). Its origins also were strongly influenced by the ...
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• Lights Out: Reworking an old piece in a new way.

  
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  This is a close up of the center of a painting I recently finished. I started this piece it in my kitchen during the Halloween Snowpocalypse of 2011. I was using a palette knife and just pushing the paint around to see what might develop. This was as far as I got because the power went out, (it was out for ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Art of Healing

  
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  When you think of a hospital, what words come to mind? Sterile, white, empty, uncomfortable? You probably don’t picture this. This is the foyer area of Vancouver General Hospital that challenges the stereotype of hospital space. It also speaks to … Continue reading →
  5 weeks ago

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