Engage your creative nature by truly nurturing an understanding of your authentic self so you can improve your general well-being.
The Soul Nurture Project Facebook Community is heart-crafted to be a space for expressive arts for personal growth and authentic alignment.
Share the results from your creative world and receive what I would call an "aesthetic response" which is sharing a potential title for the creation or what your creation evoked from other group members.
What are Expressive Arts?
According to the International Expressive Arts Therapists Association (IEATA) “Expressive arts combine the use of visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development.”
Why Use Expressive Arts?
Creativity is has been found in various sources of research to:
- Increased sense of purpose
- Boosted immune system
- Lead to fewer doctors visits and an improved sense of balance in older individuals
- Transcends culture and ages
- We are primarily visual or kinesthetic learners
- Goes deeper than talk and ideas in the realm of logic
- Teaches self-care
- Creates new neuropathways, improves cognitive function
- Reduces anxiety, depression, and loneliness
- Limits retraumatization when used as a modality in a therapeutic context
- Addresses anxiety and constriction when accompanied with meditation
- Creative endeavors lower cortisone
- Get to access creative, non-logical part of the brain and this allows for a different sort of processing
- Creating and being creators is a global language of human beings
Hi, I’m Kelly!
My journey to sharing expressive arts is a personal one as much as a professional one.
I have always been creative. It has been an important part of my inner world, being an introvert. I always have something creative happening. It could be what is traditionally seen as creative, i.e. painting but it could be creating content for this website, for instance, or it could be in cooking and creatively finding solutions to a missing ingredient.
What I recognize is that creativity is always doing something tangible – although that is the outcome. Creativity as a process is about holding space. It is pondering sometimes, and at other times simply being. All is based on being centred within oneself, being in nature is my favourite resource to centre and be myself, from this space creative sprouts.
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