Feelings either flow naturally, like a river, or get dammed up. If our emotions become blocked, we can become tense, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. This book offers simple techniques for using art to embrace, understand, and release our emotions so that we can experience a greater sense of well-being in our lives. In The Art of Emotional Healing, Lucia Capacchione presents the simple yet powerful methods she uses in her internationally acclaimed workshops, showing us how to reach inside and let our feelings out through drawing, painting, journal writing, collage making, sculpting, drumming, dancing, mask making, and more. No artistic talent or skill is required, only a desire to let go of self-criticism and discover how we really feel.

Demystifies emotion's central role in personal growth, often neglected elsewhere. ...a superb guide that allows both the public and holistic practitioners greater access to this highly therapeutic modality, says Dr. Robert Ivker, President, American Board of Holistic Medicine.

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” -Psalm 34:18 Recovering from emotional and psychological trauma takes time. Give yourself time to heal and to mourn the losses you have experienced. Don’t try to force the healing process. There is no right or wrong way to think, feel or respond to trauma, so don’t judge your own reactions or those of other people. Your sometimes misunderstood responses are normal reactions to abnormal events because each person will react in different ways. During the difficult process of healing your trauma you will experience a wide range of physical and emotional reactions. So be patient with the pace of recovery and be prepared for difficult and volatile emotions. Allow yourself time to feel whatever you’re feeling without judgment or guilt. This guide is built to guide you through the process of healing emotional, physical and spiritual trauma. Not only will you heal your mind and body, this guide will help you heal your spirit. Let’s take the journey of healing together!

Time and time again the arts have been called on to provide respite and relief from fear, anxiety, and pain in clinical medicinal practices. As such, it is vital to explore how the use of the arts for emotional and mental healing can take place outside of the clinical realm. Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners is an essential reference source that examines and describes arts-based interventions and experiences that support the healing process outside of the medical field. Featuring research on topics such as arts-based interventions and the use of writing, theatre, and embroidery as methods of healing, this book is ideally designed for academicians, non-clinical practitioners, educators, artists, and rehabilitation professionals.

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

Nautilus Book Award Gold Winner A psychotherapist offers “crucial” guidance on how to “alter fundamentally our fearful relationship to deep feelings,” from depression and anxiety to grief and fear (Los Angeles Times) We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of “negative” emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it’s the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal, and transform our lives and our world. Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life. “This remarkable book has taught me a whole new way of thinking.” —Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “A beautiful piece of work destined to become a perennial classic.” —Martha Beck, author of The Joy Diet

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. Acclaimed by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts brings a tried and true program out of the medical field and into your home and neighborhood. Improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in just 12 weeks. Whether you are ill, suffering from emotional trauma, or looking to unite your community, the arts become the conduit to restore your wellness and thrive in life. Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane created and developed this unique and powerful process to help anyone heal. Through innovative art projects—from the visual arts, movement and dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, readers learn to get in touch with their inner muse and inner healer. Based on years of research and experience in the medical community, Healing with the Arts sets the stage for a more meaningful and healthier existence.

Have you ever felt trapped by resentment, anger, or bitterness? Have you wondered how to free yourself from those emotional chains and find inner peace? "The Art of Forgiving and Letting Go" is your guide to doing just that. Throughout our lives, we all face betrayals and hurts. These experiences, if not handled properly, can leave us resentful and bitter, preventing us from living a fulfilling life. This book presents us with a transformative path to emotional liberation, emphasizing that forgiveness is not forgetting or condoning, but freeing ourselves from the emotional burden that binds us to the past. This book not only addresses forgiveness towards others, but also self-forgiveness, an essential aspect for our healing and personal growth. Through its pages, you will learn to: - Understand the nature of resentment and its effects on our mental and physical health. - Recognize the need for forgiveness and the benefits it brings. - Cultivate self-compassion and empathy, essential tools for the forgiveness process. - Facing and overcoming the challenges that arise when trying to forgive. - Repair damaged relationships and build bridges of communication and trust. - Embrace the transformative power of forgiveness and its impact on our daily lives and society at large. "The Art of Forgiving and Letting Go" is more than a book; it is an invitation to a journey of self-discovery, growth, and liberation. It is a tool for those who seek a life free of resentment and full of joy, serenity and emotional well-being. Don't miss the opportunity to discover the healing power of forgiveness and how it can transform your life. Get on the path to a more fulfilling and enriching life today!

If you said to someone 'I'm hurt', their automatic reaction would be to call a doctor. But if you were referring to an emotional injury, what then? We have spent years searching for medical answers to our physical pain, yet when it comes to psychological injuries the solutions are much less evident. Gael Lindenfield has suffered her own share of personal tragedy and this led her to develop her own methods for overcoming many different types of hurt. She discovered that there are seven stages to recovery, and these have been proven in their effectiveness not only by Gael herself, but by the many clients she has helped. The treatment will allow you to move on and develop a coping toolkit for any time of loss or hurt, however great or small.

Increased stress and traumatic events in our lives have resulted in many millions of people who suffer from insomnia, nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and tension headaches. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers relief at your fingertips, quickly and safely, for a wide range of emotional problems. It explains how emotional distress becomes lodged in the body as muscular tension and blocked energy, and shows how acupressure can relieve not just the resulting physical symptoms, but also their emotional source--often without the need for extensive talk therapy or medication. Acupressure stimulates the same points used in acupuncture, but instead of needles, firm finger pressure is used on the surface of the skin. The pressure releases neurochemicals called endorphins that relieve pain. As in acupuncture, specific pressure points are connected with internal organs and energy pathways in the body (called meridians) that regulate the flow of electrical energy to all systems. Unlike acupuncture, acupressure can be used safely by anyone, with only the hands as equipment. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers a comprehensive A-Z guide to emotional ailments (from abandonment to worry and obsessive thinking), with fully-illustrated instruction on dozens of precise acupressure point locations and how to activate them, combined with yogic breathing, stretching, and movement routines. Case histories from the authors' practice further illuminate each condition and the path to emotional balance and healing. Most routines can be used independently for self-care and on-the-spot relief. There are also sections on how to use the techniques to help others, with appropriate safeguards.