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Trusting Your Ideas

Dear Wonderful Creative You, One of the most important questions you can ask yourself is why...

Fine Line Flower Tutorial

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Over the last six years, presenting roughly 40 different patterns...

Developing Your Artistic Voice

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: This quarter in The Gathering, we are focused on developing your...

Calm Your Anxiety with Guided Visualization

Apr 10, 2015 | Creative Self-Care, Wellness

I've been focusing a lot on anxiety lately. (If you missed my recent posts on coping tools for anxiety and panic, you can click on these links.) One of the things that I have noticed throughout the years working with clients is that guided visualization works. There...

Art Therapy Podcast: Sara Roizen on the Beauty of Being an Art Therapist

Mar 27, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care

I recently had the opportunity to have an artist date with the lovely and inspiring Sara Roizen, the artist and art therapist behind the Art Therapy Spot blog. If you've ever trolled around Pinterest for inspiration for mandalas, you've almost certainly seen...

Why I Became an Art Therapist

Mar 18, 2015 | Creative Self-Care

By: Amy Maricle Happy Creative Arts Therapies Week! This week I have the pleasure of being interviewed by Janet McLeod, MA, AT, AThR Clinical (Hons) an art therapist and artist in Auckland, NZ. I first learned about Janet and her wonderful work last year when I...

Art Journaling for Self-Esteem

Mar 11, 2015 | Creative Self-Care

By: Amy Maricle I want to start a revolution. A self-esteem revolution. A self-love revolution. A self-appreciation revolution. Will you join me? I'm not talking about conceit. Not selfish, self-centered insecurity masquerading as confidence. Do you know what I'm...

How to Be a More Courageous Artist (and Person)

Feb 26, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care, Wellness

Dear You: I came across this amazing TED talk and just had to share it with you. I love it because it speaks to so many of the things that we love to talk about here: finding courage, recapturing creativity, and embracing our "weaknesses." So many of the anxious folks...

10 Reasons I Love Being An Art Therapist

Feb 20, 2015 | Creative Self-Care

Because I have a somewhat unusual job, I spend a lot of time explaining what art therapy is. In the course of that conversation, I inevitably talk about what I personally LOVE about being an art therapist. This got me thinking that I've never shared that with...

Creativity Challenge #2: Make a Valentine’s Artist Date

Feb 9, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care

By: Amy Maricle The Creativity Challenge #2 is to make an artist date. What is an artist date? It's making a time to get together with another creative soul to make some art. That's it. You can mix things up by giving yourselves an artistic challenge or joint...

Everybody’s Anxious: How Not to Let Anxiety Rule Your Life

Feb 5, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care

Got anxiety? (This post is for informational purposes and should not be considered a substitute for medical or psychological evaluation or treatment. For more on this, please see the end of this post.) What Is Anxiety? Anxiety and fear are normal...