Each year holiday advertisements for Christmas start earlier and earlier (this year I actually saw one before Halloween!) and with them comes the meta message for many folks that they need to shape up for the holidays. It won’t be long before the parties begin and we are thrown into the paradoxical mandate to, “look […]
Archives for November 2015
A Thanksgiving Art Therapy Exercise For Groups or Individuals: Thank You Cards
All too often we focus on the negative aspects of our relationship with food, and our bodies. We forget that we may have developed some of our attitudes and actions for reasons that, at the time, were the best coping strategies we could come up with. Eventually we may outgrow these strategies or they may […]
Art Therapy: A Useful Treatment for Veterans With PTSD
With the ongoing existence of war in many countries around the world, there are many returning veterans in need of a variety of therapy treatments. Too often, these combat veterans have endured physical damage, experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and/or suffered a combination of both. In effect, PTSD also has physical symptoms including headache, gastrointestinal […]
November Art Therapy Activity: Child’s Play
by Dr. Deah Schwartz This month I want to address something that arises for folks living in parts of the country where the weather is beginning to become more inclement and lulls many of us into a more sedentary mode. One of the tenets of the Health at Every Size(r) paradigm is incorporating joyful movement […]