Art Therapist Monica

Stressors abound in our modern world. Children, parents, jobs, hobbies, money, health all contribute to our wellbeing and to our stress. In case of anything going wrong, be it a car accident, an angry altercation with the neighbor, or a robbery, most of us react with emotions. The severity and kind will of course vary. The real beginning of healing is when we accept what has happened. Acceptance also comes with a realization that you may have contributed to what happened. Thi

Total 24 hours in a cycle of a day. How did you spend it? Shopping, cooking, household chores, work, driving, working out, the list goes...

What an odd statement but the statement has enormous implication in your life. Let me explain! As you fell off to sleep what did you think of? What area of your life? Who were the primary players in these thoughts? What emotional response did they bring forth, fear, loss, pain, healing or love? When you drift off to sleep, your last thoughts stay with you. You are in effect inhaling the last emotions of the day which can be negative or positive. Your thoughts are also influen

We all have wants and needs, real and cultivated, influenced by ego and culture and society. Maslow, in 1943 created a pyramid of these needs starting with physiological, safety, love, belonging and ending with self actualization. Appealing classification! Let’s use his pyramid for this message, albeit a bit differently. Replace erudite terms like self actualization with joy. Now let’s start looking at our needs and wants from the top down i.e., joy is the starting point. Th