Draw on Your Emotions

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Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards, this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person¹s important life experiences, key memories, relationships, best times, worst times and who they are as a person. It helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageble and insoluble problems into a new perspecitve. Smaller sheets of paper will help provide more containment and sense of security (and may also help clients feel more comfortable with doing quick images). For more information about individual therapy, teen and child counseling, family therapy, teen group therapy, and art therapy services, please visit: www.

She is a First Prize award winning author, with 20 books in child mental health, published in nineteen countries. This is an essential resource for therapists, educators, counsellors and anyone who engages other people in conversations that matter about their relationship to self, others and life in general.

The main idea behind “draw your feelings” is to express a specific emotion, feeling or situation that you can’t normally express with words.

It is helpful to inform young people that there is no ‘right answer’ but that the therapist is simply interested in how they might feel in a range of situations. The cards will not go out of date as I imagine they will illustrate life’s difficulties that are timeless. Similarly, Figueroa-Sánchez (2008) defines literacy as “the ability to create meaning and the ability to apply that understanding our own lives” and argues that children’s emotional readiness can be nurtured by engaging them in literacy-focused activities including narrative storytelling and games that express their feelings and emotions.Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. The Drawing Your Feelings exercise was developed for younger people, or for those whom clinicians think would benefit from exploring their emotional experiences. I have tried feelings mandalas (draw what you’re feeling in the inside of the circle and then what is going on in your life on the outside).

Wayne lives with his wife, three youngest kids, three dogs and an insane collection of his kids' other pets outside of Columbus, Ohio. Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards, this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person(1)s important life experiences, key memories, relationships, best times, worst times and who they are as a person.This manual contains a series of structured "easy to do" picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life. Contains a series of structured "easy to do" picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal effectively with their emotions in everyday life.

Her books, which form the Helping Children with Feelings series are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals all over the UK and abroad. For each of the emotions, I encourage clients to do an abstract picture and avoid words, faces, and recognizable images. The Emotion Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review their emotions and their relationships in a meaningful and often transformative way. This exercise can be introduced by the therapist as a within-session exercise, or as a homework task which can be discussed in the next session. In addition to blogging and working with clients, Carolyn enjoys making her own art, reading, running, enjoying nature, and spending time with her son and husband.And some clients still worry about the final art product looking good or tell me that they don’t like this exercise because they don’t want to pay attention to their emotions. Students can exercise their creativity and demonstrate their knowledge of emotion vocabulary with this lovely resource. Therefore, it is a great check-in activity, for two reasons: (1) allow the individual to first express feelings via drawings, before writing about it, and (2) make it visible about how the group is feeling before entering the main activity.