Introducing Pour Your HeART Out!
This video is about my online art therapy course, Pour Your HeART Out, created by me, Asphyxia. The course is filled with videos in which I demonstrate the activities, and photos of my artworks to inspire you with yours.
Why do art therapy?
Art therapy is for you if you enjoy creative crafty activities, and are open to exploring your feelings in writing. It's especially valuable if you are currently going through a hard time. It is a tool to ease creativity into your daily routine. If you loved the artwork in my book, Future Girl/The Words in My Hands, and are inspired to create your own art journal, this course is for you.
Perhaps you are dealing with mental health issues such as depression or anxiety, or a chronic illness, grief or loss, or something else that is challenging you. Art therapy can help you in two ways. First, the process of gentle art and craft activities can be meditative while not being too challenging, and can help lift your mood. It simply feels therapeutic. Second, it can help you to process your issues in a healthy way, feel cathartic, and release emotions that have built up in your body.
You don’t need to have any art experience and you don’t need to be able to write well to do this course. If you are an experienced artist or writer, this course will guide you to use those skills in a relaxing therapeutic format. When struggling with our mental health, making decisions can become overwhelming. This course tackles that by providing simple, bite-sized guided activities.
I have gone through several periods of hard times in my life, and each time I have wanted some kind of gentle art therapy to engage in, but at those times, I have felt too stressed or overwhelmed to adequately guide myself with my own art therapy. I also had barriers to accessing art therapy classes and groups in my community.
Eventually, by accident, I struck on an art therapy process that worked for me, was engaging enough that I was able to do it for months at a stretch, was easy enough that I could do it when tired and overwhelmed, and was encouraging enough that it consistently boosted my mood. That’s the process I share with you in this course.
All course material is Deaf-friendly, presented visually, with no reliance on sound.
Sign up for the course here: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/12368...