Art therapy - share your work here

[Deleted member 33052]

I'm glad you shared you with us, @SheilaKathy. Thank you!

 

[Changing4Best]

This was the first one I did. It mostly expressed my emotions connected with my traumas.

 

[Changing4Best]

This one is about when my abuser brought others in to abuse me too. He made me in to a very young prostitute! Thankfully, though, my mother seemed to have recognized that something was wrong and rescued me when I was 6. I thank God and her for that.

 

[Changing4Best]

This is one of the later ones. I start to express my protests then.

 

[Changing4Best]

"Wheeler" was my nick name back then. I was much happier and freer in this one. This expresses the way that life itself was healing me. Being out and about, climbing trees, riding my bike, going horse back riding, all these things I loved to do, and riding horses especially gave me such a feeling of power and strength. It is a very therapeutic activity.

I have a mental image of this one in my mind, of the actual experience, and I go to it often, if life distresses me. It is a very relieving experience to remember and think about when the need arises.

This is the last one I did.

 

[WishfulThinking123]

@SheilaKathy Thank you so much for sharing your pictures! They are so raw and pure, they really show an insight into the pain you were feeling and then at the end the freedom you felt.

@Mal Content Thank You so much for your encouragement! Maybe I will start one with my poetry :)

 

[Deleted member 33052]

@SheilaKathy this is exactly what I was hoping to see in this thread! I'm grateful to you for sharing your work. :)

 

[Chiqui]

Hi! I have been doing art journaling since I re started my life after the cult. Writting and drawing and painting, putting down on paper what was important for me everyday.
I don't look after a pretty piece, more like doing it without a trace of self expectations.
It has worked, and stiil does. It is the only think that makes me feel proud of the day. At lasr, I have taken something productive from an, generally, empty day

 

[Deleted member 33052]

Hi! I have been doing art journaling since I re started my life after the cult. Writting and drawing and...

Please allow me to fill your empty day with a million hugs! (((Maria))) x 1,000,000

 

[Deleted member 42957]

I have done a few pics while in therapy but never shown them. This is one of me in the therapy room.

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[Changing4Best]

I remember once that when I was in the mental ward, we painted bird houses as Art Therapy. I picked out my favorite colors and painted away. I was there for a pretty serious situation in my life, one that the Medical Dr. and the Psychiatrist both were working on. I was working on it too, of course. And the Art Therapy really helped. I still have the bird house. It reminds me that an "unsolvable situation" or what seemed to have been one anyway, was indeed solvable.

 

[Chiqui]

Please allow me to fill your empty day with a million hugs!...

Ey, Mal! Thank youuuu :laugh::laugh: I am trying to upload some of my art, but I can't from the mobile. Lets try later from the PC. Hugs and thanks for the thread :cool: