Liminal Terrestrial, Art + Art Therapy

04/12/2024

Right outside may be something marvelous. 🌌

04/09/2024

Wanting to show off a newer piece in the humble and magical Liminal Terrestrial Art collection by a local artist and acupuncturist form Vashon Island Ann Leda Shapiro!

She is amazing in her work and spirit. Check her out 🥚🌌

02/10/2024

When you can, find time to deeply experience all of your senses, and the interconnection between you and the natural world. Reflective time helps encode these rich moments in your nervous system and can become powerful in building resilience for everyday living.

01/15/2024

Find sanctuary where you can.

12/18/2023

Those familiar with may guess the artist here, somatic rhythms cross the midline & break up the strain of the season. 👐🦋👐

12/09/2023

Remnants of Pomander week 🍊

12/03/2023

What are your protector parts and are they exhausted? Would you like to find and witness them and safely allow them to be?

10/14/2023

Lucky eclipse timing today with 🌞
Taking a joyful break from learning new ADHD findings to witness the sun and the moon. 🌙

10/02/2023

Time for a polyvagal tone.

08/03/2023

I came across the Chinese proverb today - before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.

This is so hard for us, and also so true. It’s an age old wisdom, lending itself naturally to expressive therapy modalities.

Echoes again here by Rilke, a quote found inside a great book “The Power of Your Other Hand” ✍️✨

08/02/2023

A helpful summary for healing things you might be curious about…

Somatic therapy is a holistic approach to mental health that addresses both the mind and the body. It’s particularly effective for survivors of trauma.

04/01/2023

How people see me
Who I am
Who I strive to be

Thanks to for this reminder. 💖

03/29/2023

Soul Collage: Have you ever wondered how an oracle from your own subconscious might speak to you? It can be pleasurable, familiar and uncanny. It may reflect what you can’t put your finger on in words.

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03/26/2023

The Scribble Drawing: a fun and sneaky way into your psyche through the side door.

02/16/2023

Endings in therapy can be a chance to reimagine what endings can be, to experience loss in a way that affirms meaning and the value of connection.

Thanks to art psychotherapist for the inspiration.

01/15/2023

Art therapy is for you and no one else. It’s finding your process, trusting your intuition, and enriching your inner world, often resulting in expansive connection to life.

01/06/2023

Give true attention to moments of peace in your body.

12/22/2022

Pomanders: the sensory meditative moment you didn't know you needed.

Pomanders are a symbol of good luck and health, and make apt aromatic "fidgets" for end of year therapy. 🧡

11/18/2022

We are brimming with creation: sensation, emotion. All we need is access to ourselves.

11/08/2022

Cultural and healing practices throughout history have mapped pain and somatic experience, and used art to document, expel, and shift our subjective embodiment. Given what we know about trauma held in our bodies, moving in this direction may connect with you intuitively.

11/05/2022

Make art that speaks to you alone. Attune to your inner world, and allow it to emerge with .

10/27/2022

Discover the innate wisdom of your non-dominant aspects.

10/20/2022

Listening very closely to feelings and sensations, how they feel within us and around us. What would happen if I allow them to exist in new ways?

The art therapy process looks entirely different depending on who you are, what you need, where you are going. My inspiration as art therapist comes from many fields and many humans. This work is inspired by .lan and her magical somatic and spiritual contemplations as an artist and teacher.

10/13/2022

Make sense of it all, and reconnect with meaning that enlivens you.

10/06/2022

Through therapeutic art making, the ineffable can be embodied, your somatic experience can be seen, and what you need right now can be known to you.

09/30/2022

Move through pain and trauma. Reconnect with your own innate rhythms.

09/20/2022

Have you noticed the limits of insight? Sometimes knowing why still doesn't shake things into change.

"No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.” -- Bessel A. van der Kolk

You can step beyond insight in pursuit of deep change through art, somatic experiencing, and coregulation within the therapeutic relationship.

08/22/2022

It doesn't always take much to figure out a feeling within. Art making helps. 🌱✨

08/17/2022

Together with art therapist and cofacilitator

We were grateful to spend the day today with the

3rd pic: craft paper tablecloth after glitter!

* Artworks shown are our meager demonstrations today and can only pale in comparison to art therapy works were made by artist campers 💚

07/11/2022

✨🌱✨When plants are bursting with life in your therapy session. ✨🌱✨