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Dear Wonderful, Creative You:<\/div>\n
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Today’s interview is with Barbara Shelton, an amazing artist who has used art through recovery from a serious injury to her body and soul. I think her relationship with art, the inner critic, and her need to create will resonate with you.<\/div>\n
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You can find the other Creative Self-Care interviews here:<\/div>\n
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Day 1:\u00a0Finding the Courage to Create with Guylaine Morin<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 2:\u00a0Using Photography to Escape Darkness with Cynthia Shepard<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 3: \u00a0Defining Your Life through Art Journaling with Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 4:\u00a0Creating Beyond Limitations with Barbara Shelton<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 5:\u00a0Painting Through Grief with Joy Simon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Creative self-care can work for you if you just give yourself some space to try like these women did.<\/div>\n
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Creatively Yours,<\/div>\n
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AMY: What are<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>your earliest memories of art making and creating as a child?\u00a0 What\u2019s the first time you remember feeling inspired?\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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BARBARA:<\/strong>\u00a0In grade school I remember drawing a daffodil and the teacher putting it on the bulletin board. \u00a0During the school open house later in the year,\u00a0my mother and I looked up and realized that about\u00a0about 1\/3 of the class drawings were mine.\u00a0 That was the first time I could clearly see that someone valued my art<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>In 9th<\/sup>\u00a0grade, I shocked my parents by entering and winning the school talent show with my\u00a0singing.<\/div>\n
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But the day art was erased as a creative outlet in my spirit is etched in my memory.\u00a0 I was in my\u00a07th<\/sup>\u00a0grade art class. \u00a0I was having trouble with perspective in a drawing assignment, so my father pulled out a college level art book to help me understand\u00a0vanishing points. It was too difficult for me. \u00a0Upon graduating\u00a0from high school I was torn between studying music or landscape architecture.\u00a0 I chose music so I wouldn\u2019t have to compare myself with my parents. \u00a0Talk about the destruction wrought by the inner critic!<\/strong><\/div>\n
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AMY: What are<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>your favorite ways to express yourself<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>creatively?\u00a0 What kind of art do you make?<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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BARBARA:<\/strong>\u00a0My favorite way to creatively express myself is singing.\u00a0 I played 12-string guitar and sang professionally for several years when I was younger.\u00a0 It was the first time in my life I felt like I could truly let out my innermost feelings\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0the first time I felt my life had any real worth. \u00a0But with music I could transcend those hesitations and connect with my truest inner self. \u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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As an adult, I went back to college to work toward a master\u2019s degree as an art therapist. \u00a0My art classes validated\u00a0\u00a0that I indeed had talent in the fine arts.<\/strong>\u00a0 I loved my ceramics classes as well as drawing and oil painting. But the ceramics were my favorite.\u00a0 I loved the tactile\/physical nature of the making – the mixing, kneading, and building, as well as the decorating.\u00a0 Every element was all mine. \u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"art<\/a>Barbara is a student of Starting Your Art Journal,<\/a> an\u00a0e-book on using\u00a0color, symbols, and shapes to explore, express, and de-stress. I’ll show you how to start and keep a meaningful, fun art journal that brings meaning and messy fun to your days. With countless step by step tutorials and nearly 50 art and writing prompts, you will have tons of ideas for expressing yourself in your art journal and finding a new language in art.<\/p>\n

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AMY: If you\u2019ve ever gone through a period of feeling blocked or that you don\u2019t have \u201cpermission\u201d to make art,\u00a0<\/span>how did you find the courage to create\u00a0<\/span>again, to create beyond limitations?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BARBARA:<\/strong>\u00a0Nearly 20 years ago, I began working at a large psychiatric hospital as a social worker\/play therapist.\u00a0 Unfortunately only a year and a half after starting there I was seriously injured. \u00a0I\u2019ve gradually improved since those first years of agony, but all forms of self-expression went out the window for many years.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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A few years ago I was part of\u00a0a group discussion on Linked-In about\u00a0art therapy.\u00a0 Someone asked a question and I responded that I no longer make art due to my injuries.\u00a0 One Amy Maricle responded with such kindness and encouragement! \u00a0I had hit a brick wall and you gave me the nudge to explore ways to go around it and begin again, Amy.<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Barbara<\/div>\n
I do sing in my church choir now but my powerful solo voice falls far short of where it used to be. I am trying to create a small art making spot in my home.\u00a0 For months I\u2019ve had to drag supplies in and out of my kitchen to create on the countertop (I cannot look down for very long without my pain levels rising).\u00a0 It was so discouraging. \u00a0Once in a while I sneak up there and smear a little paint on paper. \u00a0That\u00a0helps.\u00a0 Until responding to some of your challenges in the\u00a0Creative Self Care<\/a> group I felt like I was going to explode because I just needed to MAKE SOMETHING!<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I want people\u00a0to know: You don’t have to be an “<\/strong><\/span>artist” to engage in creative acts.<\/strong> Don\u2019t do it for a product.\u00a0 Do it for you.<\/strong>\u00a0 You just might find out, as I did, that with a little instruction, experimentation, and practice – you are indeed an artist, too.\u00a0 To me, the act of creating is an act of making life.<\/strong>\u00a0 It is allowing something to come into existence that was not there before.\u00a0 It is a birth and that is a miracle all its own.<\/div>\n
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\"CourageBarbara Shelton lives in Bossier City, Louisiana with her husband, Greg. \u00a0She received her master\u2019s degree from the University of Louisville in Expressive Therapies and formerly worked as a social worker\/play therapist at a large psychiatric hospital. She currently\u00a0teaches a class called \u201cHealthy Family” to empower parents to be better by bettering themselves as people. She also loves to sing in her church choirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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