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“Never stop learning because life never stops teaching."
- Lin Pernille
How Nature Helps Calm Anxiety and Regulate Your Nervous System
If you struggle with anxiety, overthinking, or feeling like your nervous system is always "on," you're not alone. It's easy to get caught up in worrying about the future, replaying conversations, or imagining worst-case scenarios. The good news is that your body also...
Why Do I Feel Overly Responsible for Everyone? An Art Therapy Approach to Hyper-Responsibility
You know that feeling when someone you love is off and something in you immediately starts calculating how to fix it? When the mood in the room shifts and your nervous system shifts with it? That's not just empathy. For a lot of us, it's something deeper. It's...
EMDR vs Brainspotting: Which Trauma Therapy Is Right for You?
If you've been considering exploring EMDR vs Brainspotting and don't know which one to choose, you're in the right place. I've been trained in both. I use both regularly with trauma survivors. And what I've learned from years of sitting with clients in these processes...
Why Can’t I Relax Even When Nothing Is Wrong?
You finally have a quiet evening. Nothing is on fire. No one needs anything from you. And still, you can't relax. Ugh! You notice the signal of heightened stress. You’re holding your breath, your mind is still racing and your jaw clenched. Basically, your body hasn't...
How Poetry Heals Trauma: An Expressive Arts Found Poetry
Have You Ever Wondered How Poetry Heals Trauma?A few weeks ago, a journalist at the LA Times interviewed me as a consulting expert for a piece she was writing about a young Latina woman who had gone to therapy, discovered that poetry was central to her healing, and...
A Mindful Art Therapy Practice for When Your Body Doesn’t Feel Safe
There's a lot of collective anxiety in the air right now. A lot of hypervigilance. A lot of stress that doesn't really get a chance to discharge because the next frightening news, upsetting headline, challenging situation, or overwhelming demand is already happening....
Expressive Art Therapy Exercise for Collective Grief and Anger: The Empty Vessel Ritual
How Can an Expressive Art Therapy Exercise Help with Collective Grief and Anger?There's collective heartache happening. And there's anger too. Real, justified anger about injustice and harm. About systems that fail to protect people. About losses that shouldn't have...
How to Become an Expressive Arts Therapist
Wondering how to become an expressive arts therapist? I get this question all the time. So I thought I’d answer all your questions here. In this blog, I’ll go over the training requirements, how the work differs from art therapy, and where you can pursue this career....
Art Therapy for PTSD: How Creativity Supports Healing
Understanding Trauma Beyond WordsPTSD doesn't live in your mind. It takes up space in your body as the tightness in your shoulders you can't seem to shake, the sleep that won't come, the way you jump at sounds that don't startle anyone else. It's that invisible wall...
Art Therapy for Trauma Healing and Nervous System Regulation
Can Art Therapy Help Me Heal Trauma? A Nervous System Regulation ApproachYes. Art therapy is one of the most effective ways to support nervous system regulation and help the body process trauma that words alone couldn't reach. When trauma lives in the body, talking...