Sublime

“He is studying the use of painting in therapy,” Seth said. “Not only working with patients and using art as therapy, but working with the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect.” Seth went on to say that “certain paintings can capture and direct the healing abilities of the viewer. … The painter’s intent is embedded in his me

Everyone has a place where their need for validation inhibits them, including both of the authors. Psychotherapists are human too, and it’s human nature to want our patients to respond to our brilliance. But they don’t always do that; in fact, sometimes they look at us as if we’re nuts. We’d be lying if we didn’t admit that those times are a direct

According to peer-reviewed studies of this work, the techniques used by CMBM have “reduced the numbers of those qualifying for the diagnosis of PTSD by 80% or more.” Let us repeat that: Programs that incorporate drawings as an early intervention reduced PTSD by more than 80 percent. For some of us, our difficult experiences do reside in the conscio

Each of us has a unique mind: unique thoughts, feelings, perceptions, memories, beliefs, and attitudes, and a unique set of regulatory patterns. These patterns shape the flow of energy and information inside us, and we also share them with other minds.

Therapy attempts to break down obstruction and assist through a cathartic release. I’m more interested in teaching ways to set free a creative energy that will flow onto the paper without judgment and analytical observation of its origin. Each of us has within us a mother lode of creative fuel that, when accessed, can ignite our artistic process in