Description
127 pages, published April 2023 with Silver Nettle Press
Here, Blooming is a personal exploration of anxiety using mindful art therapy. Through the use of tailored directives and the resulting free writes, poetry, and art, the topic of anxiety is explored in an attentive way, resulting in an understanding and acceptance of it as it lives in the art therapistโs body. By integrating an approach of mindful curiosity with that of a willingness to learn, a relationship is cultivated between anxiety and the art therapist: one of listening, caring, and empathy. Through this comes the recognition that, though anxiety may reside in the self, itโs not there as an adversary; itโs only trying to communicate messages long ignored.
Here, Blooming was part of Catherineโs thesis for her graduate degree in art therapy.
