Art Therapy is a powerful outlet for releasing anxiety and expressing the artist’s underlying feelings. The process of creating art is extremely therapeutic and oftentimes artwork can reveal thoughts and feelings that someone didn’t realize were there in the first place. If you live with emetophobia and enjoy creating art, you might consider finding a local art therapist to work with during your recovery process.
Expressing Anxiety and Mental Illness through Art Therapy
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Artistic skill is not required to participate in art therapy. Whether you sketch people as stick figures or awesomely as Da Vinci, mastery is not what art therapists look for. They see art as a self expression that facilitates healing …
Making art to ease the anxiety and depression – Bringing along OCD
I have not participated in art therapy with an art therapist. I have simply found that making art, specifically mandalas, helps to calm my anxiety and feel the satisfaction of completing something. In her blog “The Healing Arts,” …
