How Art can help you heal faster from Heartache. Use creativity to help you move through emotions.

“How Art Can Help You Heal Faster from Heartache”
Season 2: Episode 2
Guest
Tammy Groves-Thornton, owner, and founder of TGT Art, a boutique Art Studio that caters to Art Design, Photography, and Paint Parties.
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Introduction
Are you somewhere in the grieving process after the loss of a relationship, loved one, friendship, or perhaps a job? Feeling like you’re never going to get your mojo back? In this Episode of The Bougie Black Therapist Podcast, Guest Tammy Groves Thornton joins the conversation to discuss how art can speed up the healing process after heartache.
A recent study indicated there was a 71% decrease in feelings of anxiety and 73% decrease in feelings of depression for evaluated art participants. Stopping the Chase helps clients who struggle with depression and anxiety understand that these issues are caused by a disconnect between the body and the brain because the brain can go forward, backward, and present, but our bodies can only do one. When there's a disconnect between our thoughts and our feelings, it can throw us into a state of turmoil on a regular basis.
Topics
Definition of Depression
Definition of Anxiety
Art Can Help with Depression and Anxiety
Art Can Help People Reconnect with Joy
Art Can Help When Dealing with Matters of the Heart
Art is Healing and Healing is a Process
Sometimes Painful Experiences are Necessary to the Healing Process
Start Off Small and Make Time for Creativity
Conclusion
The process of creating connects us to what is divine in us. It is a special connection we have to The Creator because The Creator created us. Our thoughts are energy, and energy never dies, so it’s important that we give our thoughts a place to go to keep them from ruminating and getting stuck in the vibration of us. Art is an excellent way to heal and give our thoughts energy.
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EXPANDED NOTES:
Definition of Depression When a person is excessively worried about the past to the point to where it affects them and their ability to be in the present.
Definition of Anxiety When a person is excessively worried about the future to the point where it keeps them from being in the present.
Art Can Help with Depression and Anxiety
Art forces you to be in the present moment now, because your attention is drawn to whatever it is that you're creating, whether it be a painting or you're doing some other type of creative process like making jewelry maybe graphic design you know any kind of creative process that would classify as art it keeps you in that present moment so you're not really thinking about the past you're not really focusing on the future you're just in that moment in the current moment.
Art Can Help People Reconnect with Joy
People can become emotional remembering things because the body keeps score with the good and the bad, and as people talk about memories, the body is almost remembering things as if it was yesterday. Joy is very important because the body keeps score, even with joy.
Healing is a Process
The more steps that are taken, the more momentum increases the more opportunities unfold.
Art Can Help when Dealing with Matters of the Heart
Divorce is hard not only for you individually, but it can also be hard on families as well, because you're changing the structure that you have worked so hard to create.
Transitioning through divorce involves grief, which is a process that can begin before the actual divorce because one or both parties can sense the strain and the eventual breaking of the relationship.
Art can be helpful when processing through the emotions experienced during and after a divorce because artistic expression is about getting the emotions out, out of the head, out of the heart, and finding a place to put it.
Sometimes Painful Experiences are Necessary to the process. you've got to basically destroy everything that was before so whatever's new can emerge
Start Small
Do something every day. Creativity is a muscle, just like biceps. One must exercise it. How it is developed will be a unique process from person to person, and there is no one-stop shop plan, or a single path from point A to point B.
Focus on Things that Feel Joyful
Creative expression is not limited to just painting. It may be writing, videography, yoga or it could be cooking or sewing. Whatever the artform, it's an opportunity to express and to create something that wasn't there before.

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