Posts Tagged ‘Expressive Art’
Wordless Wednesday: Mindbody Medicine: My Fabric Stash!
June 19th, 2013 | Author: Kathy Morelli
Photo:Kathy Morelli, LPC
Creating with your hands is a wonderful way to enter into the experience of the essential flow state. To be fully immersed in flow state is to be so absorbed in your task that you lose self-consciousness, your emotions are positively engaged and and you experience deep satisfaction. Developing a hobby is a good way to define a sense of self around positive experiences, outside of depression, postpartum depression and anxiety.
Guest Post: Matt Logan (Music Therapist) and a Perfect Lullaby
June 17th, 2013 | Author: Kathy Morelli
Mom’s voice is perfection to her baby
Today I am pleased to have Matt Logan, MA, MT-BC, a board-certified music therapist, offer a guest post about the enhancing effects of music for the mother-baby relationship. Matt writes knowledgeably about the positive effects of music on our emotions and physiology. He works as a music therapist at a children’s hospital in Oakland, California., with kids of all ages and backgrounds and he loves this work! He runs two websites: A Perfect Lullaby and Music Therapy Source.
Matt Logan, MA, MT-BC
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Wordless Wednesday: MindBody Medicine: Early Spring Garden
June 5th, 2013 | Author: Kathy Morelli
Gardening is my favorite spring “mindbody relaxation therapy”!
I love spring in the garden, the plants are beginning to push out from the soil. Here are some shots from around my garden. It’s a work in progress, I live in deer country and it’s a struggle to find landscaping plants they don’t love as breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Twenty Year old Hellebore (Photo: Kathy Morelli, LPC)
Wordless Wednesday: MindBody Medicine: Visual Journaling Space
May 22nd, 2013 | Author: Kathy Morelli
52 years ago my mom made my art space needlepoint chair (Photo: Kathy Morelli, LPC)
This is my creative arts workspace. 52 years ago, my mom, who is now 92, created this beautiful needlepoint cushion cover for her antique chair. I now use this chair when I work on my creative projects. Mom had this chair in her bedroom for many years before she created the cushion. I remember the chair when I was a small child. My mom was very creative. She did many quilts and needlepoints. I like to think I inherited my creativity and love of color and texture from her. My Dad was an opera singer, he was always singing in the house.
Increase the Joy! Decrease the Drama!
October 2nd, 2011 | Author: Kathy Morelli
Managing Your Emotions Series
An Increasing Joy & Decreasing Drama tips thread is going to pop up here from time to time. 
The tips’ll sometimes be an expressive art exercise for us to do together, sometimes it’ll be a post about a positive experience meant to uplift, and sometimes it’ll be a relaxation or mindfulness technique.
