Creative Expressions
An Art Therapy Blog
The Truth About Shadow Work – A Jungian Perspective
Shadow work is often misunderstood and misrepresented in popular culture today. Originally, the concept of the ‘shadow’ comes from Carl Jung’s analytical psychology. The shadow represents the unconscious parts of our personality that we have rejected or not acknowledged. These parts can be both positive and negative.
Art Therapy In the Workplace
Art therapy provides a creative outlet for employees to express their feelings and alleviate stress, fostering a more resilient, communicative, and innovative organization.
Trauma-Informed Art Therapy and Depth Therapy
I have found that a lot of the people I work with are survivors. They managed to get through life, but due to complications, they often experience symptoms like migraines or emotional turbulence. Learn how trauma-informed art therapy and depth psychotherapy can help navigate these complexities.
Trauma Treatment in Depth Therapy – The Therapeutic Container
Think about the mythic stories of Persephone, Inanna, and Gilgamesh. In these stories, the characters go into the realm of the dead (a grief process), retrieve something that was lost or hadn’t been integrated into consciousness (because of trauma), and reclaim their power. Finally, they return to the world changed, more mature, more empowered, wiser, and transformed.
The Truth About Shadow Work and Carl Jung
There is a current trend of people attempting to do shadow work via self-help books and the guidance of influencers who don’t have actual master’s level mental health degrees. It’s terrifying. And what we found from how some people are responding to this is they’re opening up material that they don’t have the support they need to process it. That’s why so much of therapist training focuses on trauma-informed care!
The Archetype of Rest
Much like a human sabbatical, crop rotation can be beneficial to the biome, as well as leaving overworked or depleted fields fallow for a season to restore fertility. Our culture has these reminders in many ways but has lost the concept of the individual human worker.