The Creative and Expressive Arts can support us through our life transitions. By becoming the emotional validation that we seek when life feels unsteady, the expressive arts can provide an outlet which deeply calms and settles the nervous system, not only through the process of creation, but through visualized expression of emotion.
This form of therapy can support us through our periods of change and uncertainty, through grief, and through our next "becoming"... providing us with the solid footing we need when life feels most unsteady.
Whether they be joyful, scary, or sorrow-filled, our life transitions and varied stages can become concrete and anchored into our bodies through the use of the Creative and Expressive Arts.
Here is a piece I made to support me through a recent life transition.
Can you identify themes in this piece?
What do you see?
What title would you give this image?
Copyright Toni-Cara Stellitano, 2024
oil pastel on paper
