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Making Meaning From Scribbles
Lee–To Be or Not To Be We often talk about how important meaning-making is to happiness. At its simplest this is to say that what we believe about what is happening to and around us dramatically affects our happiness. Key


Best Possible Life Vision Boards
Annie’s Vision Board 2019 The other day, Gioia was asked to run a ” Vision Board” workshop and thought, “I’ve never led one but they sound like a very art therapy-ish kind of thing!” Vision boards are essentially any kind


Human Beings versus Human Doings
Rebecca–Sun Bath Coloring Sheet John Bradshaw, author of the seminal book Healing the Shame that Binds You, was one of the first people to introduce into modern vernacular the notion that we are Human BE-ings not Human DO-ings. This catchy


Gratitude Affirmations
Gioia–Affirmations Wall Last month, Gioia hosted a Health Fair wellness booth at Prince George’s County Community College where she counsels young college students. Being an art therapist, she wanted to do something interactive with art materials but she knew that most


Anything But Not Everything
Rebecca–Everything I Want to Do Rebecca’s husband once said “When I was growing up, my mother always told me I could do anything I wanted but she didn’t tell me I couldn’t do everything that I wanted”. It’s a high


Get Naked
Rebecca–Body Recently, a buddy of ours, Eric, who we could rightfully call an experience junky said his friend Caroline had gone to a transformational retreat in which she spent the week naked. We’re always tuned in to innovative workshops, but this