Art Therapy Service

02/06/2022

Researchers propose a new framework for three seemingly unconnected forms of creativity.

31/05/2022

20/05/2022

The wonder of Art Therapy …

Place2Be's Director for Scotland, Sahir Permall, reflects on the importance of schools, families and communities coming together to keep the child at the centre.

29/04/2022

The importance of boundaries -

Codependency means I HAVE to take on your problem. Even if you didn’t ask…or want me to. Even if I didn’t want to, either.

Because codependency is all about boundary confusion.

The lines (what lines?) are confusing and fuzzy.

When in doubt, fix something.

Plus, we don’t really know who we are without helping others.

(We’ve usually been taking on the responsibilities of others from an early age).

It’s a miserable cycle, and we don’t know how to stop…

So we weigh ourselves down further with more burdens that have no business being on our shoulders.

It’s all we know.

But there is another way.

Boundaries.

Rich organic ones, the kind that come from a brimming and joyous discovery of who we really are.

❤️

Molly

If you’d like to step OUT of the codependency cycle (and stay out!), you might love my 8-week online boundaries intensive for women.

A growing sense of self-worth, self-love, self-discovery, and self-compassion are just a few of the things graduates excitedly talk about finding through the process.

Wanna learn more? Check out the free intro class here:

Http://boundaried.com 🦋

12/04/2022

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.

Parker J. Palmer

Art by Johann Thoma, c 1930

01/04/2022

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
~Brené Brown

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24/03/2022

Welcome to this week’s ‘The Monday Interview’. When I started this blog series over a year ago my intention was not only to give people honest insights into certain professions,...

22/02/2022

It’s that time again …

📅 The renewal window for arts therapists opens in one week, on 1 March 2022.

Not sure how to renew? Our blog contains the details ➡️ http://ow.ly/tN7650I03Ht

31/01/2022

Yes… we need to understand and appropriately communicate our own anger also…

While we might take care of our children in the traditional ways, making sure they are fed, clothed, and have a roof over their heads those are not the only things that matter. Sometimes we forget just how important it is to take care of our children on an emotional level and because of this many fa...

15/12/2021

The Beacon House Resource Advent Day 15: When there is something too upsetting to talk about we don't have to avoid it. We can talk about the 'thing' without talking about the 'thing'.

https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=c3ec814dd79c724e53ed3668085ea7e9

15/12/2021

Yes…

"Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

Image: Four people with different needs, who wish to cycle.

Panel 1: 'Equality' Four identical bicycles - only one of the people can cycle comfortably.

Panel 2: 'Equity' Four different bicycles, adapted to the needs of each person - now all four can cycle comfortably.

Calystarose

"Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

AloneInDarknes7

"This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.

"I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.

"After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”

"If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity."

momo-de-avis.

"I remember reading somewhere once “we should be speaking of equity instead of equality” and that is a principle that applies here me thinks."