Transpersonal art therapy is just one of the modalities I offer at Gillian Drew Life Transitions. What I love about it is the way it allows for expression of whatever you need to say, even when you don’t have words for it. 

I also love that art therapy isn’t about making something aesthetically pleasing and beautiful, and it isn’t about being technically correct in art-making.  I really connect with this aspect because art wasn’t one of my favourite subjects in high school because although I enjoyed the making part but I’m not naturally artistic at all. I had so much personal judgement going on inside my head as I ‘created’ whatever we were assigned to do…I always felt like the teacher was looking at what I was doing and thinking ‘dear god, what do we have here?!’. She probably wasn’t, but in my head there was quite a conversation going on!!

Who is art therapy for? What do I mean by ‘transpersonal’? What happens in an appointment? Read on to have all these questions answered…

Have you ever experienced a life change that’s absolutetly wonderful yet you feel like you’ve lost something, lost a part of yourself. So you end up feeling guilty or ashamed about feeling any kind of loss at all.  Or perhaps you feel silly for mourning something when there’s so much around you to be grateful for!

What's that feeling all about?

Have you ever felt distraught and lost because you don’t know who you are anymore?

These moments may arise when you’re entering a new life stage where your attention is no longer focused outside of yourself, for example retirement, children becoming more independent, children leaving home, a relationship break up, or no longer being needed in a carer’s role for ageing parents. 

So, what can you do about it?

Life Coaching is simply a conversation.  What makes it different than other conversations is it has a purpose of helping you move towards living the life you’d prefer to be living! 

If you’d like support working through a life transition or an unexpected change, or moving towards a desired outcome – why not check out Heal Your Life Coaching? Find out more about it in this blog.

Body awareness is an effective technique for learning more about yourself. Your body holds a wealth of information that can be so easily ignored when life gets busy and mentally complicated. But when you take the time to tune into what’s happening in your body, you get to understand its signals of stress, tension, lightness, and acting with authenticity.

How do you get started with building body awareness? Read more to find out!

Did you know that when you don’t deal with whatever is causing you stress, your body continues to respond to the threat? Even when you’ve mentally blocked it out? This can result in physical symptoms such as headaches, high blood pressure, increased heart rate, digestive upsets, erratic menstrual cycles, and muscle tension.

When you break down the word ‘kinesiology’, it means ‘the study of movement’. ‘Kinesi-’ is from the word kinetics meaning motion or movement, and ‘-ology’ is ‘the study of’.

Kinesiology as a modality looks at the relationship between stress and how it’s affecting ‘movement’ within all aspects of you. By ‘all aspects of you’, I mean that stress can affect the flow of your thoughts and emotions, your connection with yourself and others, the flow of your digestion, menstruation, breathing, bodily fluids (blood, lymph), and physical coordination and movement.

Do you find yourself adapting to life and doing more, pushing yourself harder, working longer, putting up with physical discomfort and illness, and tolerating unhealthy social, working, and living arrangements? You might find yourself thinking – if I just push through this part, things will get better’. But often, instead of stopping ‘after this part’, you push on until you round the next bend of experiences…and the next…and the next.

Is this something you can relate to? Why do we do this to ourselves?