YOUR HEALTH
Art and therapy
GETTING YOUR CLIENTS TO OPEN UP THROUGH ART
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HTM’s Jason Firmager explores art as a therapy tool…
Y life was going through one of those phases where work, family, responsibilities, digital distractions and a million other things were getting on top of me. I found myself in Kent’s Bluewater Shopping Centre when I was drawn to a shop which had the most amazing paintings in the window. For the first time in a long while, I found that childlike pull of fascination and wonder, and I realised in that moment that my daily bombardment of ‘what I need to do’ stopped!
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Gazing in the window made me realise that I no longer took the time to appreciate some of the things that I once loved. I used to love painting and drawing as a child. I could spend hours drawing and looking at pictures. Art and music spoke to me, calming the torrent of thoughts that ran through my overthinking brain. I was drawn into the shop, where I sat staring at one particular image. Before I knew it twenty minutes had flown by. I realised that I felt calmer, my day and life challenges seemed to make sense and my stresses seemed to have been somewhat humbled. I realised that I was using art to somehow make sense of myself.
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