Beautifully Paired: Promoting Mental Health Through Arts and Education [greenvillesun.com]

Thank you Michael..appreciate that

Nice article!!

I read this article this morning and got busy, forgot to mention that this is what I am all about.  What a wonderful article and I saved it for later reference..Am really grateful I save everything so it was easy to come back to. 

Alot of people who were either my friends, or past members of Anonymous Groups and Womens Therapy Groups were so hesitant to even pick up a crayon in group or therapy class for fear of being " Less Then " someone else in the room

I was working with women in one of these Art Therapy Settings and we had a 70 year old woman who had suffered horrid abuse her whole life. She could not talk or discuss it with us even as a group, and when the crayons came out on the table, she grabbed a handful and went off to try her hand at art.

I did not see her for a week, and she attended our next meeting and had a notebook in her hands.  When we asked her how the week went, she opened that notebook and every page in that book was covered with Black Crayon Scribbles.  I started crying and she started crying because we both knew that more was said with her artwork then 5 weeks of therapy.  She rallied after showing her art and when I saw her last she was doing very well and was genuinely happier and healthy.

Never never ever give up...on yourself or your friends.  A box of crayons or even just 1 can perform a Miracle.

MM