Calm the Nervous System There are many ways to manage emotions and navigate life. When we organize our experiences visually, the nervous system often settles as our story begins to feel more coherent. Some of us learned foundational emotional skills growing up in homes that were stable and “good enough”. Others grew up in confusing, chaotic, or unsafe environments where emotional development had less room to unfold. And yet — emotional capacity can expand at any point in life

Connecting with your future self can be accessed via your lived experience in your body. This expressive arts somatic exercise invites you to meet your future self through gentle movement, creative expression, and embodied awareness. By engaging sensation, imagination, and art-making together, this practice supports nervous system regulation, self-trust, and emotional integration in a way that feels grounded, accessible, and trauma-informed.

Expressive art is a simple way to unleash creativity and capture emotions

Taylor Swift transcends her status as a pop icon; she's an American poet whose songs delve into various American personas, simultaneously capturing individual experiences and universal themes. She is good for women everywhere.

Originally posted March 23, 2020. Expressive art is a fun way to create flow and relax your nervous system Listening to the Nervous System Through Sensation and Image About 98% of our mental activity…the reasons why we do things…is unconscious (Bargh, 2017). Expressive Art, a right brain activity, is a way to access those wordless emotional messages swirling beneath our consciousness. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could unearth some of your own motivating energy, and chann

Art therapy projects can help express feelings of sadness and process the experience and soothe the nervous system. A wonderful art therapy project for a support group for birth trauma survivors is called “Bead Your Story”.

The expressive art exercise called LifeLine is a positive tool in the therapy room. Getting an overview of your life can be a first step step towards self understanding and self acceptance and embodying these new understandings into your nervous system.

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Originally posted January 8, 2018. I use my Vision Board process to move myself away from magical thinking. I don’t believe if you...

Originally posted June 22, 2015. Expressive Art – A Mindbody Practice Using mandalas as a healing expressive art form is a merging of Eastern and Western practices and thought. “Mandala” is Sanskrit for “circle” and is a spiritual symbol used ritualistically to represent universal wholeness. It is used a focal point in meditative practice. In Western practice, the mandala has been adopted as a tool for healing and self-discovery. The endless interlocking patterns can be

Content Note: This article discusses sexual abuse and its impact on pregnancy, birth, and postpartum mental health. Please read gently and take care of yourself. Sexual abuse — whether a single assault or long-term childhood trauma — can quietly shape the emotional landscape of pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. Many survivors do not initially connect past trauma with their perinatal mental health. Yet pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding, medical exams, and the profound vuln

The television series Glee quietly broke the fourth wall when it portrayed the characters grieving the death of Finn Hudson, played by Cory Monteith, who died from a drug overdose. The cast was grieving both the fictional character and the real person, and the emotional authenticity was palpable. Through this storyline, the show offered a powerful exploration of grief, addiction, friendship, and the many ways people process loss. Grief manifests differently for different peo

Originally posted June 19, 2013. Creating with your hands is a wonderful way to enter into the experience of the essential flow state....

Originally posted June 17, 2013. Mom’s voice is perfection to her baby Today I am pleased to have Matt Logan, MA, MT-BC, a board-certified...

Originally posted June 5, 2013. Gardening is my favorite spring “mindbody relaxation therapy”! I love spring in the garden, the plants...

Originally posted May 22, 2013. This is my creative arts workspace. 52 years ago, my mom, who is now 92, created this beautiful...