"And doesn’t sharing your trauma directly just amplify it? How can you possibly ever feel better about any profound experience that warped your mind, body and soul? "
I used to feel this way too--why would I spread the bad feelings by retelling them?
With time, I now have more courage to face the "bad" feelings and see their universality to the human experience.
Re: therapists, I also get what you mean...and I wonder if the issue is that it's a "both" and not an "either-or"? I do think that art therapy is underrated and under-messaged though, so thank you for writing about thoughts!
I think I’m getting there too. I actually wrote this last year, and these feelings feel less stronger than when I wrote them. Also hi!
Re: therapists; In my experience with my local therapists there was honestly a lot of casual misrepresentation around being trauma informed; thats my angst that’s probably come out here lol.
With art therapy, I think my viewpoint was trying to exactly allude to that. A therapist I met with, who was also a Hindustani Classical singer, said to me that it’s “art” that heals, “art therapy” can’t possibly be done by anyone who doesn’t understand the art themselves and that’s the productised version. That’s what prompted these questions, Im still not sure how I feel about the both-and thing. Thanks for pointing it out!
"And doesn’t sharing your trauma directly just amplify it? How can you possibly ever feel better about any profound experience that warped your mind, body and soul? "
I used to feel this way too--why would I spread the bad feelings by retelling them?
With time, I now have more courage to face the "bad" feelings and see their universality to the human experience.
Re: therapists, I also get what you mean...and I wonder if the issue is that it's a "both" and not an "either-or"? I do think that art therapy is underrated and under-messaged though, so thank you for writing about thoughts!
I think I’m getting there too. I actually wrote this last year, and these feelings feel less stronger than when I wrote them. Also hi!
Re: therapists; In my experience with my local therapists there was honestly a lot of casual misrepresentation around being trauma informed; thats my angst that’s probably come out here lol.
With art therapy, I think my viewpoint was trying to exactly allude to that. A therapist I met with, who was also a Hindustani Classical singer, said to me that it’s “art” that heals, “art therapy” can’t possibly be done by anyone who doesn’t understand the art themselves and that’s the productised version. That’s what prompted these questions, Im still not sure how I feel about the both-and thing. Thanks for pointing it out!