A lot of my creative (and life) work revolves around healing from trauma, and I truly feel that there are lessons we all can learn from difficult experiences. One of my favorite books on coming back to your body after a trauma causes a kind of separation between mind and body is Waking the Tiger. https://www.amyoes.com/2015/12/28/waking-the-tiger/
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Thanks for the share. I rarely find time to unwind with the "read a good book lately thread" but just honed in now and this read was touching. The art work kind of popped on screen like a voice from the soul. Its fantastic you offer advice for people, to help them through difficult curveballs, life has thrown at them.
Aw thank you so much! I really do hope to inspire people to use creativity as a way through anything! Amyoes.com/tedx
Yes, you are right, personal creativity is not only a tool to unwind on in real time, ....but so much creativity from people in the past still helps people unwind hundreds of years later. Eg The Globe Theatre London where people flock to hear a man who wrote by candle light and quill feather pen. (Shakespeare) Creativity can exist anywhere to anybody, in any given circumstances, and breaks the boundaries of time, space and locality. I really admire therapists, like yourself who have the ability to make others "Tap" into their own creative bubble. One of my favourite Oscar Wilde quotes (a writer i had to study years back). "Through Art and Art Alone can we shield ourselves from the sordid hurt of Actuality". I was recently looking at prehistoric cave paintings and could "feel" what they were trying to say. Happy Weekend.