How Art Heals: Exploring Your Deep Feelings Using Collage, authored by Andra F Stanton forward authored by Tien Chiu
As a practicing artist myself, I specialise in the practice of repair via making. So this book in title and thematic matter was tempting. Often we run away from emotions, grief is to be quietly subtle, broken….we don’t admit. Yet what if we were allowed to discuss it? Art should be a part of our lives. Often realistically anxiety is a part of our lives, so why not connect the two and make a good out of a bad, as it were? I see this book as a guide, a way forward, a suggestive body of pages. I have yet to view many art related books which also offer a secure space for feelings. Why is this book so specialised? Because the author is a psychotherapist, thus has the in depth knowledge to really produce a title of meaningful content.
Work through your own life in conjunction with your artwork through this title. It may be a financially possible form of therapy.
This is no step-by-step guide, nor is it a navel gazing self care tome. This is a work through, a painful one at times. It makes you come face to face with things which you may have previously run away from. But its healthy and positive. Personally I would rather access emotional healing through an art form than any doctor. With real-life quotes, experiences, coupled with beauty of imagery and ideas, its no novel, nor is it an exclusively art inclined title.
As the author echoes, art can be ‘hope’.
It has already helped so many, turn to any purchase website and you will find plenty of revealing customer reviews.
It is timeless, a guide for us to delve into no matter what the era or date on the diary.
To explore your own possible course of repair, purchase this book through my link.