paint process helps to explore how self care art can offer you a better understanding of your pain and process it through therapeutic art sessions
learning how your environment impacts you by understanding what your sensory overload symptoms may be teaching you about your emotional needs can be useful. we process cues and store them in our subconscious and they can impact us in profound ways that we may not even realize are affecting us.
at times it can be difficult to start the art session as I find I can be too much in my head overthinking where to begin. I have noticed that I need to quiet my thoughts to allow my emotions/feelings/mood to guide me while making intentional art.
one of the most beautiful gifts that came out of all of this was my ability to organize my thoughts in a way that made sense to me. I had always loved to write, collect quotes and lyrics that helped to validate my feelings so going into this new journal was familiar to me. a type of self-help I didn’t realize I needed.
a big part of my own therapeutic art practice is setting intentions. I have found that if I choose a word to focus on it helps to call forward subconscious thoughts around the way my past has influenced my decision making and how stigmas have interfered with me from manifesting my wants, needs & desires.
