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Free Expressive Art Therapy Resources

Heart Meditation
Did you know that it is possible to open your heart simply by meditating upon it? Typically, as we go through life, the innocent unconditional love that shone so brightly when we were younger becomes jaded, cynical or dull. 

Wholeheartedness - when you give all yourself to love completely - withhol
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Healing Your Heart Walls

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Our hearts are vulnerable to emotional injury, and a hurting heart does not feel warm and heartful. Emotions such as sadness, anger, and fear get stuck in the body. Sometimes, ...

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Clearing Emotional Blocks

“The more that you trust and believe in angels, the more they will pour their blessings upon you.”

~ Denise Linn

What are Emotional Blockages?

Negative experiences, unresolved emotions, self-limiting beliefs, and self-defeating behaviours create emotional blockages. Suppressed emotions like sadness...

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Healing Your Trauma

 “Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”   ~ Peter A. Levine

To heal trauma, you will need to re-establish the biological and psychological balance that has been disrupted. When traumatized, you will react with “fight-or-flight” and “freeze” responses. These are emergenc...

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Alchemical Transformation

"Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware and you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension."~ Rajneesh

Mysterious stories through the ages have claimed that alchemists have changed lead into gold. Alternatively, alchemy can b...

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Unveiling Your Shadow

Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth."

~ Miranda J. Barrett

For the first half of our lives (and for many, into the second half of life), we build up an idealized false self, and whatever we do not accept about ourselves forms our shadow.

The Idealized Self
 

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Two Stages of Spontaneous Creativity

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and it will be lost.”   ~ Martha Graham

Psychotherapist Susan Bello, creator of "The I.am.I Spontaneous Painting Process," sees symbols as psychic energy that exists ...

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A New Emotional Reality

"Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you." 

~ Marianne Williamson

I have longed to feel joy for as long as I can remember. In my twenties, I created "joy journals" by cutting and pasting beautiful things that sparked my joy....

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