10/25/2025
What if the answers you seek are actually already right in front of you?
You see, there is a spectrum of art therapy.
From art as therapy, therapeutic art, to more clinical art therapy experiences.
And what if it didn’t matter which one you chose but as long as you gave yourself space to allow creativity to pour in, that space is where the messages appear?
Do you see one of my biggest inspirations is the work of Carl Jung. He was a Swiss psychologist that believed that our art and the universe can speak the same language.
When we allow ourselves to create from this deep expansive place inside of us and let the creativity pour out, we will often see signs and symbols that don’t just belong to our personal narrative, but that connect us to the world and universe outside of us.
For example, when we see a certain symbol, colour or image emerge in our art, and then it shows up in our world it’s like we are connecting to something bigger than us through the synchronicity. And it’s not just our personal meaning that gives us inside. It’s the way that it interacts with us and we have relationship to it.
So this is where blackout poetry comes in you can take an article from any magazine or a photocopy of something from a book (I got this book for free. It was in the junk pile, sorry!) and just circle the words that feel yummy, interesting, or potent.
They don’t have to make sense together, and you don’t have to know why they’re the words that are calling your name.
Then block out the rest, and let the words that you circled emerge as a poem. Read it out once, read it out twice.
It will probably connect you to a message you’ve been searching for, or give insight to a feeling you didn’t know was living under the surface.
There are so many ways to tap into this power of creativity and art, but art therapy techniques and principles are of course the guiding north stars for me.
If you’re curious about learning more and getting started, you can comment “QUIZ” and find your creative healing archetype.
