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The Art Therapy Way: A Self-Care Guide: 30 minute art Therapy activities to calm anxiety, improve mood, de-stress, and connect to your inner voice
Do you struggle with overwhelming stress, anxiety, burnout, or sadness? Are you looking for something to help you heal, but do not know where to start? If any of this resonates with you then keep reading. In The Art Therapy A Self-Care Guide you will discover how creativity can help you calm anxiety, de-stress, boost your mood, and more (even if you do not believe that you have a creative bone in your body). Inside you will find therapeutic art prompts, meditations, and process questions to help you tune in to your inner experience, and connect with your heart, body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
In this book you will
50 art therapy activities that therapists use to help guide you through specific emotions such more!Mindfulness activities and intentions to help you tune in to the present moment and foster your creativity.As well as reflection questions to help you process through the experienceYou may be thinking that this book is only for artists and creatives. But this book is for anyone that wants to connect with their inner voice, find healing, or develop a self care practice.
If you want to calm anxiety, boost your mood, de-stress, find calm, and connect to your inner voice, then scroll up and click the add to cart button!
In this book you will
50 art therapy activities that therapists use to help guide you through specific emotions such more!Mindfulness activities and intentions to help you tune in to the present moment and foster your creativity.As well as reflection questions to help you process through the experienceYou may be thinking that this book is only for artists and creatives. But this book is for anyone that wants to connect with their inner voice, find healing, or develop a self care practice.
If you want to calm anxiety, boost your mood, de-stress, find calm, and connect to your inner voice, then scroll up and click the add to cart button!
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252 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2022
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February 28, 2023
This audiobook is the perfect companion for the physical copy. I loved hearing the meditations at the beginning of each chapter read aloud so that I could relax. The questions for reflection at the end of each exercise are also easier to process when heard in someone else’s voice! It’s also such a small detail, but I love how the audiobook chapters have page numbers to follow along with. It’s clear the author has a great attention to detail and passion for helping people. She opens each exercise with a reminder that there is no judgment or right/wrong way to do art. It is such a difficult thing for me to remember as I judge my art so harshly. Each exercise is so carefully crafted. My favorite was the postcard for forgiveness, something I really struggle with. I also like how the author draws out the possibility of future change in the exercises - such as the collage to analyze what things we want more or less of in our lives, or the tri fold self portrait and taking steps to see how we can become someone we like. Overall so encouraging and soothing!
August 12, 2022
“Breathe in deeply. And let it all go.”
Kendyl Arden’s The Art Therapy Way: A Self-Care Guide is a book that I would recommend to pretty much anyone. I really like how the book is organized into different sections based on the type of mood or emotion you are experiencing (happiness, pain, anger, grief etc.) and then with each activity there is a meditation / mantra, the actual activity instructions, and the follow up “processing” questions to think about. This is especially appealing for me because sometimes I’m better at writing than I am at creating something… so even if I decided not to do the art project specifically as described, I still have some amazing reflection questions to think about and use. I envision adapting some of the activities to be part of my journal as opposed to separate pieces. I was also really impressed with the variety of activities described. I will admit: creative journaling and self care are not new topics for me to explore. I have a Master of Social Work license (granted, not in clinical practice but still). So a lot of times I see the same activities suggested over and over. But this book has some that I think are very cool- “Get Your Anger Out” and “Chalk”.
There are many relatable and meaningful mantras, things to think about, and even poems written by Arden herself interspersed throughout the book.
The only “downside” of this book is that the meditation portions can be repetitive both within a single activity section and across the whole book. But, this feeling is likely because I sat and read the book straight through instead of on a activity by activity basis.
All in all: I think this book is a great addition to the world of art therapy.
Thank you to Kendyl Arden for an advanced reader copy. The opinions expressed are mine alone.
Kendyl Arden’s The Art Therapy Way: A Self-Care Guide is a book that I would recommend to pretty much anyone. I really like how the book is organized into different sections based on the type of mood or emotion you are experiencing (happiness, pain, anger, grief etc.) and then with each activity there is a meditation / mantra, the actual activity instructions, and the follow up “processing” questions to think about. This is especially appealing for me because sometimes I’m better at writing than I am at creating something… so even if I decided not to do the art project specifically as described, I still have some amazing reflection questions to think about and use. I envision adapting some of the activities to be part of my journal as opposed to separate pieces. I was also really impressed with the variety of activities described. I will admit: creative journaling and self care are not new topics for me to explore. I have a Master of Social Work license (granted, not in clinical practice but still). So a lot of times I see the same activities suggested over and over. But this book has some that I think are very cool- “Get Your Anger Out” and “Chalk”.
There are many relatable and meaningful mantras, things to think about, and even poems written by Arden herself interspersed throughout the book.
The only “downside” of this book is that the meditation portions can be repetitive both within a single activity section and across the whole book. But, this feeling is likely because I sat and read the book straight through instead of on a activity by activity basis.
All in all: I think this book is a great addition to the world of art therapy.
Thank you to Kendyl Arden for an advanced reader copy. The opinions expressed are mine alone.
January 29, 2025
I am giving this text an extra star than my overall feel for the book because I was hoping for it to be something different than it was, and of course, this is no fault of the author.
What I was hoping for was two fold: Encouraging meditations on how to keep our creative practices at the forefront of our lives (which this text does successfully) and to connect this meditation on actionable artistic exercises that were accessible and step by step for beginners, (which it doesn't do) or at least, for artists who need a new way of trying artistic work that taps into our practice in self-care.
The meditative, body centered exercises in this text are helpful and I would even say inspired at times. It is a solid book on meditation and self care. My disappointment with the text is that the prompts are on the verge of being helpful and actionable, but felt incomplete to me.
Full disclosure, I'm a high school teacher and I have to scaffold exercises step by step for my students not to get lost and give up. My desire for this book was to be able to teach artistic practices to kids who don't feel confident in their abilities, and also to help them develop a practice that nourishes their lives, foster emotional regulation, and unleash their creativity. I realize that this is a very specific ask, and possibly unreasonable, hence the extra star given for this.
What I was hoping for was two fold: Encouraging meditations on how to keep our creative practices at the forefront of our lives (which this text does successfully) and to connect this meditation on actionable artistic exercises that were accessible and step by step for beginners, (which it doesn't do) or at least, for artists who need a new way of trying artistic work that taps into our practice in self-care.
The meditative, body centered exercises in this text are helpful and I would even say inspired at times. It is a solid book on meditation and self care. My disappointment with the text is that the prompts are on the verge of being helpful and actionable, but felt incomplete to me.
Full disclosure, I'm a high school teacher and I have to scaffold exercises step by step for my students not to get lost and give up. My desire for this book was to be able to teach artistic practices to kids who don't feel confident in their abilities, and also to help them develop a practice that nourishes their lives, foster emotional regulation, and unleash their creativity. I realize that this is a very specific ask, and possibly unreasonable, hence the extra star given for this.
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