The Arts help us perceive intangible inner experiences through image, texture, sound, and movement – it gives shape to what is hard to describe in words.
Logical thinking is brilliant for analysis, critique, and problem solving, but it doesn’t help us with our feelings.
Art-making complements logical thinking with sensory and emotional intelligence. The arts help us witness our internal narratives and sensations through image, texture, sound, and movement.
Witnessing is a non-judgemental awareness of your inner experiences. It is not about fixing or erasing parts of yourself—it’s about compassionately seeing your complexity, your contradictions, your rhythms, your brilliance, your failures, and your truths.
This opens the door to mindful living, as it frees you from fixed ideas of who you are or who you should be.
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Why Expressive Arts?
Go Beyond Words
When you feel stuck in analysis, overwhelm, or fear, the arts offer you a simple way to explore and be understood without first needing to explain yourself in words.
Emotions, stress responses, and memories often exist in us as fragments of sensory experiences (like sound, smell, touch, gestures, tension, images, and taste), rather than as fully-formed stories.
Expressive arts use a “bottoms-up” approach to tap directly into these sensations, and go beyond words.
Wisdom of the Body
When done playfully and without expectations of perfection, art, movement, and music naturally activate the parasympathetic nervous system – making us feel less stressed and more present.
Non-verbal connection opens up possibilities for you to feel seen and understood, to gain new insights about your past experiences, to reduce shame or fear, and to express what cannot yet be said in words.
When you use your body freely to paint, move, make sounds, or write, you connect with yourself and begin to trust your own wisdom.
Freedom To Play
Play switches the brain out of survival mode and tells your body that it is safe to explore again. By releasing dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin, creative play supports new experiences and perspectives.
Experiencing curiosity, joy, relief, trust, and connection through play makes it easier to uncover what might feel scary or shameful within us. Through playful creation, we can encounter freedom, self-acceptance, transformation, and authentic connection.
Creativity supports neuroplasticity and the integration of whole brain activity. Through playfulness and imagination, it engages your ability to be flexible, shift out of rigid patterns, to experience choice and agency, to navigate uncertainty, and to feel your emotions safely.
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