Draw on Your Emotions

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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.

Sometimes the emotions are expressed unexpectedly or naturally arise from a directive that is not directly about feelings. But many clients have told me that this has been a helpful exercise for them to be able to get in touch with their emotions and to feel some relief through being able to express them. 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. incredibly simple to use a useful tool for stimulating in depth communication around important emotional issues. 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.

At other times, the therapist might want to more directly encourage the expression or exploration of emotions through art.

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. Do you have 6 separate pieces of paper then for them to identify what each looks like or have one larger piece of paper?

Many other therapists have developed art directives or art-based assessments that are excellent methods for helping clients understand and express emotions. In the tradition of our most popular resource, My Feelings Workbook, Draw Your Emotions encourages the reader to use the gingerbread man figure to draw how a variety of emotions affects their body.

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.By witnessing the art, the therapist gives the client the experience of validation and acceptance of their feelings.

In addition to the blog, I see clients in private practice, enjoy making art, reading, and spending time in nature, and have fun with my family. Dr Sunderland is the author of over twenty books in child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Blank space is left for the therapist to introduce situations that are especially meaningful or relevant to the client.So, I have started using a sequence of 6 pictures to help clients better understand and express their emotions. In addition to Hope 4 Hurting Kids, Wayne previously started I Am A Child of Divorce and Divorce Ministry 4 Kids to help kids who are dealing with the disruption of their parents' relationship.