Drawing from the Heart: A Seven-Week Program to Heal Emotional Pain and Loss Through Expressive Art (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780835608329)

When the pain caused by difficult or unexpected life-changing experiences goes unexpressed and unreleased, it can unravel the fabric of your life. Where talk therapy fails to remedy the situation, expressive art proves successful. Breakthrough split-brain research tells us that imagery is our primary form of communication. Using an image to express a painful emotion allows us to see it in a way that is inaccessible through words, making us better equipped to transform a negative emotional reaction into a positive life experience. In this beautifully designed book, Barbara Ganim shows us how to use imagery to identify what we are really feeling, rather than what we think we feel. Says Ganim, When you draw an image of what an emotion feels like, you can finally separate what your verbal thoughts are telling you from what your body's actually experiencing. She then explains how to deal with those feelings. With colorful drawings and quotes from students in her workshops, she demonstrates how others have used the drawing from the heart process to express and heal their pain.

Author: Barbara Ganim
ISBN-10: 0835608328
ISBN-13: 9780835608329
Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2004
Pages: 107
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.46w x 0.34d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 09/01/2004 pg. 70