Category Archives: Art for Wellbeing

This is the second of my series of posts on creative journaling. This week, I’ll be giving you some ideas about creating a layered art journal page. The fun, beauty – and also the therapeutic process – of journaling can be enhanced by creating background layers in your journal page. It makes the process so…

It has long been recognised that the arts have potential healing and therapeutic effects. For many years I have used photography as personal therapy to help myself through some dark times in my life, when my camera, my dogs and walks were the main things keeping me sane. As a person-centred counsellor, I’m interested in the increasing evidence…

Branch Weaving – Weaving the Stories of our Lives In my Art for Wellbeing weekly group, we have started to try out branch weaving. I have been interested in weaving for some time, and wanted to try out a weaving activity with a group that didn’t involve individual looms. Sticks and branches were the perfect…